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...characters. Forgetful Jones had a foible, and he was therefore funny and as recognizable as the elderly neighbor who always seemed surprised when the paper boy came to collect on Fridays. The Count had an obsessive need, and who doesn't? Telly fretted, Oscar kvetched, Ernie teased, Bert was anal, and Grover, like most of us, was, if not always a superhero, certainly above average...
...Fleming's way with talent in The Wizard of Oz: "When [Judy] Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudomenacing advance of [Bert] Lahr's Cowardly Lion, Fleming escorted her off the Yellow Brick Road, said, 'Now darling, this is serious,' slapped her on the cheek, then ordered, 'Now go in there and work.' It must have been one carefully calculated slap from a man with impressive upper-body strength who was also a master of the 'corkscrew punch.' ... Apart from that smack, he stuck to his approach of treating young actors like adults - and the results could...
...came up with stuff that other people didn't. He did that over and over again. He was just better." - Bert Fields, top Hollywood lawyer, several of whose clients had employed Pellicano, on the investigator's mysterious but effective methods (The New Yorker, July...
...before, and they have been successful,” Mahon said. A significant addition to last year’s methodology was student opinions, collected via Facebook. “Our data is much more comprehensive because we have over 9,000 student responses,” said Bert Sperling, the president of Sperling’s BestPlaces. According to Sperling, the overwhelming majority of Harvard students said the sexual health services needed no improvement. 70 percent of students would consider going to the health services for help, a statistic much higher than other schools, Sperling said. Harvard scored best...
...been telling people that it's way too soon to estimate this," says Bert Ely, a financial consultant based in Alexandria, Va., who delivered some of the most accurate estimates of the cost of the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s. The S&L experience is instructive: the cost estimates started low (Ely's first guess was $25 billion), then eventually grew to $500 billion. The actual price tag, as calculated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) long after the fact: $123.8 billion, or about 2% of annual GDP during the bailout years. That's equivalent...