Word: gregg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labeled a "cell") where his creator labors as a hireling of a movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism, no politics, no hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action causes his characters to move and speak jerkily backward, as if a film were being rewound, until they are back in position to perform the new bowdlerized version...
...students, however, caused extensive damage in the living room, smashing artwork and pottery, Gregg said...
...This was the act of six people who broke into our house," Gregg said...
...students, who came from three colleges in the Seoul area, demanded a meeting with Gregg to press for an end to U.S. trade pressure on South Korea, police said...
They shouted "Punish Gregg!" and "We oppose U.S. trade pressure!" At least one student was draped in a South Korean flag...