Word: hellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town (Sat. 9 p.m., CBS). Salute to Pittsburgh, with Maxine Sullivan, William Eythe, Jackie Heller...
...University will not go unrepresented in the double scull event, with law student Pete Heller '48 rowing stroke and Gordon Abbott '50 pulling...
Remotes & Repeats. Heller could point to some fat facts & figures to justify his claim. TvA has already proved powerful enough to extract an estimated $8,000,000 in additional yearly wages from the networks. A closely-printed, 16-page code goes exhaustively into conditions of work, hours of rehearsal, rates of pay ($170 minimum for an hour-long show plus 22 hours of rehearsal), and such esoteric specialties as doubling, warmups, remotes, live repeats and after-shows. Heller is particularly proud of a clause which guarantees all performers their full original fee if a kinescope of a show is ever...
...defends his high pay scale because "this isn't radio, where someone puts a script in your hand a few hours before air time." On television, says Heller, "a performer's life is decapitated. Most of them can't do more than one show a week, because of rehearsal conflicts. We've set a salary bottom below which...
...Although TV executives admit that ex-Actor Heller (a minor part in You Can't Take It With You) won his union "a very tough contract," they argue that "it's possible to get a deal that's too good." Their point: the only way, now, to save money on a show is to cut down on the number of performers, especially dancers and choruses...