Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center's steps, chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Sally Reed has got to go.'' The huge hospital complex, which serves 60,000 overnight clients and 855,000 outpatients a year, is an island of security in violence-riven East L.A. If it were to close, smaller, private facilities might fail to replicate the quality of its burn center and trauma ward; or, most important, its commitment to the uninsured poor, who make up 40% of its customers. Already furious at California's anti-immigrant Proposition 187, local leaders see Reed's plan as a pursuit of the same policy...
...most people live and work. We aren't solo flyers or secret agents. We are a squadron of team players dependent on our colleagues and increasingly on our machines to get us through our jobs. Often, because of those machines or those colleagues--or ourselves--we fail. And sometimes the bravest thing we can do is react quickly, boldly, gracefully to the failures and compromises we face every day. Getting along, getting by: it's a big subject the movies hardly ever touch...
Still, if the attempts to make the story timeless seem contrived when applied to Franceca's children, they do not fail to be a lesson for the moviegoer...
There is, however, another, less wonderful, aspect of television, one that merely revels in the horrors of the world or, unforgivably, makes them commonplace or compels politicians to become first of all television stars. I never fail to be astonished at how much I am at the mercy of television directors and editors, at how my public image depends far more on them than it does on myself, at how important it is to smile appropriately on television or choose the right tie, at how television forces me to express my thoughts as sparely as possible, in witticisms, slogans...
Maybe no one is the perfect person for a job that depends so much on dumb luck in guessing the public's whims. An idiot could succeed in such a position, a genius could fail, simply by picking or passing on a Star Wars or a Forrest Gump. It's also possible that Ovitz was unsuited for the position. As a talent agent, he is a seller in a seller's market; the studios want his clients and will pay hugely for them. As MCA czar, he would have been a buyer in that market. The fellow who helped jack...