Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are something more than typists, something less than geniuses. Their names are rarely on the picture, but they carry big clout. Their job is to fix something -- a character, some dialogue, a plot perplex -- that the moguls think is broken. And to fix it quick. "When you're staring down the gun barrel of a release date," says Robert Towne, whose uncredited work on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather and other films has made him chief surgeon in the Script Doctors' Clinic, fixing a film amounts to "grace under fire...
...moral judgment can be broken, surely the next step is to fix it. "If the abnormality is in a discrete part of the brain that uses a specific neurotransmitter, we could develop a drug treatment," suggests Dr. Snyder. It might even be possible to devise exercises to fortify wayward judgment, just as a stroke patient can benefit from occupational therapy. Another possibility: a prenatal test -- abort the psychopath...
Pirsig's book was a big hit with my generation of suburban flower children who bought motorcycles, learned to play the guitar and fix their own Volkswagens and would do almost anything but think about money. Now that we're older and have come to our senses, we can appreciate Rogers' kind of motorcycle trip. A person can waste his whole life tinkering with engine parts, but if you've made a couple of decent investments, you can afford to hire a qualified mechanic...
Whatever the obstacles, the CBS-QVC merger could be a quick, happy fix for two media barons under pressure. Diller gets to make a network grow into a giant of cable, broadcasting and only he knows what else (theatrical movies? video games? TV serials for home shoppers?). And CBS gets Diller. In essence, to secure an heir, Tisch bought a company. And a legacy. "Larry gets to walk out," says the TV-industry executive, "not as a failure, but as someone who took the company and turned it around. Now he's a winner: he's probably $400 million ahead...
...ushers were complaining, and people in thehandicapped section complained" that nothing wasever done to fix the situation, Galen Silversmithsaid. Some of the disabled guests emphasized thatin the case of an emergency, they might not beable to move quickly...