Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They must be able to work fast and pull all-nighters in hotel rooms. A good one knows how to eliminate a character, take out a scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...
...doctors will talk about how they work their magic. Abe Burrows, who won a Pulitzer Prize for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is writing a book about his own 18 productions, but has less to say about What Makes Sammy Run ? and other hits he doctored. "It's like a plastic surgeon who sees a beautiful girl walking down the street," says Burrows. "He doesn't point to her and say, 'You should have seen her before I worked on her.'" If a show is a smash, the original team generally gets...
...executive. In the fall, when Henry Ford II steps down and Caldwell takes over, he will be the first non-Ford in 73 years to run the world's second largest automaking company. Boston University recognized this last week by making Harvard business school Graduate Caldwell an honorary doctor of laws. The citation sounded more like a Ford brochure: lauding Caldwell as an eloquent spokesman for the free enterprise system, it also stressed his success at selling Ford trucks and bringing the Fiesta minicar to market...
...year the nod went to Ashraf Ghorbal, 54, Cairo's Ambassador to Washington. Ghorbal was hailed by Georgetown as "a genuine member of the international cathedral of ideas." The ambassador, who stands a slight 5 ft. 3 in., was diplomatically not paired in the academic procession with fellow doctor of humane letters and former Boston Celtics Player-Coach Bill Russell, who towers...
...inspired comedy of Lucky Jim has worn well, and so has Amis the man of letters. His characters, though, as Jake's Thing demonstrates, have grown pinched and crabby with age. Jake Richardson, 59, and his overweight wife Brenda have a problem. "I realized," Jake explains to his doctor, "something that used to be a big part of my life wasn't there any more." That thing is sex. A brash American who leads an encounter group grudgingly attended by Jake puts the matter succinctly: "What's with Jake is that...