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Convention overdose setting in, not even mobilizing for Xuxa, the former Brazilian soft porn actress turned kids show star, pouting for the cameras like a sex kitten. Winding down at the Clevelander for the Twentieth Century Fox party, John Walsh of America's Most Wanted traveling with bodyguards: "I've got four: two black and two Hispanic, depending on the circumstances." Into the Tribune affair at Paragon, desperately scrambling upstairs for VIPs and fresh air, soul legend James Brown ruinously trivializing his act with Dance Fever routines. And then it's Ocean Drive at 2:00 a.m., running into our new producer friend and eagerly professing undying devotion to the cool fire, Mr. Television beatific as an oracle: "Of course you love TV. And trust me, it will love you back.