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Time was running out on the Viacom executives and advisers who hunkered down to a Sunday-afternoon skull session in the well-appointed 49th-floor midtown- Manhattan offices of Robert Greenhill, the chairman of investment firm Smith Barney Shearson. Four days earlier, on Jan. 12, Paramount directors had spurned a sweetened Viacom bid and backed a $10 billion merger with Barry Diller's QVC home-shopping network. Unless Viacom came back fast and hard, everyone present knew, the fight would soon be over...
Because in addition to the vamping and crooning, the sexual innuendoes and the Wellesley jokes the Pudding is first and foremost about bad puns. That and anachronisms (look for an American Gladiators dumbbell and a Barney lunchbox). And meta references ("It's the best dialogue I've had since Scene Two." one character says...
...would like to organize forums about health care and welfare in the spring ad invite Sen. [Edward M.] Kennedy ['54-'56] and [Rep.] Barney Frank ['61 (D-Mass.] to come speak to our group," Thorne said...
Chip Rae, director of recruiting at Smith Barney Shearson, says his firm prefers to hire MBAs who have work experience as well...
...workplace comedy reminiscent of Barney Miller or The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In contrast to sitcoms, which have years to develop nuances, the play instantly sketches the ensemble's mutual mockeries. There's the fussbudget (Lewis J. Stadlen), the hypochondriac (Ron Orbach), the braggart (J.K. . Simmons), the deferential immigrant (Mark Linn-Baker), the Hollywood smoothie (John Slattery), plus two underwritten women, one tough (Randy Graff), one amazingly dumb (Bitty Schram...