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...Dickens, such pluck and clarity of intent are completely captivating. A dud in bookkeeping class but an outstanding English student, Simon manages a transfer to an academic high school. Her lively essays attract attention. She has other notable attributes: blond hair, blue eyes, a sensuous mouth and a fortune in cheekbones. But even James Monroe High is a bit restricting. Foreshadowing the future world traveler, she writes, "I had no time for step- by-step projects; the urgent need was for swift voyages, with short stops at many ports of call...
What went wrong? "We obviously stubbed our toe," says Pierce. "We had what we considered a slump season." Others claim they could sense a growing attitude of caution and complacency. Says Leonard Goldberg, co-creator of the profitable Charlie's Angels and executive producer of this season's dud, Paper Dolls: "What made ABC so successful was that its programming was new, exciting and progressive." Garry Marshall, the creator of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, agrees: "As I was leaving ABC to make films, the programming side was no longer selling innovativeness. The network was getting conservative...
High bids and dud missiles...
...newspaper route and set pins in a bowling alley, was written, "By the work one knows the workman." Fran thought this sketch of her character "was awful. Everyone else's said, 'To the best-looking girl in school,' that sort of thing. I thought what a dud I was." Today she owns a sewage-disposal service in Barrow, as well as a water-delivery service, as well as Pepe...
...drops a $580 million dud...