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...Eventually Yorkin's engineering background landed him a job as a cameraman at NBC. Zealously he sent executives a steady stream of critiques on the programs he transmitted. They were never answered. He moved up anyway first to stage manager and then to the control booth, where producers and directors sit. There Lear spotted him and prevailed upon Martin and Lewis to make him their director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...JERRY STERNER, 62, playwright who penned the 1989 off-Broadway hit Other People's Money; of a heart attack; in New York City. Back when the New York subway cost 15[cents] to ride, Sterner worked the graveyard shift as a token seller. During nearly six years manning his booth, he wrote seven plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 25, 2001 | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...started its makeover, but the creative director who was applying the hipness lift left last month by what the company described as "mutual agreement" and was replaced by a designer from Gucci. The signature plaid has been knocked off more often than a milk bottle at a carnival booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Ball: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...into the "nightmare comedy" that set the standard for black humor in the '60s. Southern's warped sensibility is stamped throughout the film - especially in sequences like the one where Col. "Bat" Guano ("if that is indeed your name") suspects Group Captain Mandrake of committing "preversions" in a phone booth. The other title invariably connected with Southern's name, "Easy Rider," demonstrates his mastery at delineating characters through dialogue - as in the memorable campfire scene where "straight" lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), conveys his admiration for Capt America and Billy but predicts that their liberated lifestyle is doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Life and High Times of Terry Southern | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...stamp required for him to collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last his family of five for a week. A few yards away, a man shoving to get to the clerk in his steamy booth threw a punch before others in the crowd held him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palestinians: Torn Apart | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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