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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certificate you get helps show prospective employers that you've mastered specific business skills," said Kristina Cannon-Bonventre, who received a doctorate in anthropology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Introduction to Business' | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

...former Kennedy campaign aide at Harvard who declined to support Carter, Dennis J. Cannon '83, refused to surrender lists of locally registered Democrats until Lt. Gov. Thomas O'Neill's appeal for party unity this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Politicians | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...long ago, moviegoers knew, or cared about, only the big stars-Streisand and Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds of War, one of the biggest mini-series ever made, Reuben Cannon is now filling 400 parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Certain actors, like Travolta, are claimed by nearly everybody. Cannon got him his first TV role as an awkward kid with a sprained ankle in NBC's Emergency! Stalmaster got him his big break, the part of chief sweat-hog in ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter. Feinberg almost got him his first movie. She had him fly from New York to California to audition for Coppola's Godfather II. To no avail; Robby Benson was given the job, and then cut out in the editing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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