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...inexorable march to get as close as I could to the creative product, working through people who made the shows." That march included stints at NBC and 20th Century-Fox, where he developed a sure instinct for commercial comedy and new talent, including Writer-Producers James Brooks and Allan Burns (see box page 60), the creators of both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. Yet, as Tinker is the first to acknowledge, every supersedes owes its real velocity to its star. Mary Tyler Moore speaks for herself; her name is enough to attract 31 million viewers every Saturday night...
Last week four weary, bleary men sat at Art's Deli, resting from their rewrites of Rhoda. James Brooks turned to his fellow writer-producers, Allan Burns, David Davis and Lorenzo Mu sic. "Why open with the fruit salad?" he asked, blue-penciling the menu. "Let's get to the zinger - we move the pastrami up, segue to the coleslaw, go for the laugh with the knockwurst...
...animal never looked back. For years, he freelanced scripts for unpromising sitcoms. In 1969 he developed the concept for the classroom comedy-drama Room 222. The show's producer was Allan Burns, a veteran writer who had won his first Emmy. They became the creative cornerstones of MTM Enterprises and the most unlikely and profitable collaboration since Kaufman and Hart.Bearded and rumpled, Brooks, 35, gives the impression of a denim bedspread on its way to the Laundromat. Burns, 39, is resolutely Beverly Hills modish. Brooks is divorced and spends his off hours at a Malibu Beach house. Burns...
...ordinary organ-pipe or electronic-is immensely difficult to change, touring orchestras never bring along "organ works. But Carnegie's new Rodgers can be tuned from 435 to 445, or anywhere in between, with the turn of a single knob. Says Rodgers Co.'s tonal director, Allan Van Zoeren: "In this case, one pitch is worth a lot more than 1,000 words...
...news conference held yesterday at the theater, Allan Albert, artistic director of the improvisational theater group, said the new smaller cast will be made up of four or five former Proposition actors as well as new actors and actresses. They will work for $125 a week and may be hired as "independent contractors," Albert said...