Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the best talent in the business. "My career," he says, "has been an inexorable march to get as close as I could to the creative product, working through people who made the shows." That march included stints at NBC and 20th Century-Fox, where he developed a sure instinct for commercial comedy and new talent, including Writer-Producers James Brooks and Allan Burns (see box page 60), the creators of both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. Yet, as Tinker is the first to acknowledge, every supersedes owes its real velocity to its star. Mary Tyler Moore speaks...
...Grant Tinker was seeking a new TV format for his wife. In the lineaments of the odd couple he thought he discerned the aura of "electronic Neil Simons." Tinker's instinct was infallible, his supervision minimal. Left to their own devices, the collaborators mixed their unique amalgam of chance and choice. Recalls Brooks: "We decided that a television station would be a perfect locale for Mary Tyler Moore because of the strong supporting characters you find in any newsroom." Adds Burns: "We chose Minnesota when one of the writers began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings...
...Revolution of 1848, and he proceeded to put down and punish the rebels ruthlessly. He stubbornly refused to sell the region of Venetia for nearly $1 billion and then lost it-and many thousands of lives-as a result of a disastrous war with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva...
...sentiment for traditions. But from time to time one must try to reconcile those, and I would like to use the intellectual capacity of France to invent, to organize a genuinely liberal advanced society. Why do I say liberal? It could be socialist. But the French nature, instinct and behavior are profoundly based upon individual freedom, and the feeling of security acquired through individual ownership. Sometimes it borders on anarchy, as you know...
Hirshhorn's instinct for painting seems to have been weaker than for sculpture. There, nobody could cavil at the major works he has supplied Washington-the Giacomettis, the Daumiers, at least some of the 15 Moores, Rodin's Burghers of Calais and stupendous Balzac, Picasso's Baby Carriage, and the great series of Matisse's Backs of a Woman, to name only...