Word: kagan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nike spot rousingly shows several pros (including John McEnroe and Michael Jordan) and lots of gleeful amateurs working themselves into sweaty transports of athletic fulfillment. "We tried to make a kind of radical sports documentary," says Paula Greif, who produced and directed the spot with her partner Peter Kagan. "It's about emotional moments." For nostalgists, Beatles fans or anyone else who takes rock as seriously as, say, Lennon or Paul McCartney, the ad's most emotional moment may be hearing Revolution's ferocious guitars at the service of salesmanship...
According to Steven Rosenberg, a senior analyst with Paul Kagan Associates, an investment firm based in Carmel, Calif., the key to any studio's continuing movie dominance is its ability to extract follow-up value from big hits. There, Mancuso and Paramount are acknowledged masters; one Paramount executive calls the studio's Star Trek rights a "family treasure." Mancuso is encouraging Paramount to sign exclusive contracts with proven money winners like Comedian Murphy, and to promote greater in-house production. Says he: "You can't leave the fortunes of the studio to outside forces." Concurs a former Paramount executive...
Another ardent Sox supporter, Peter R. Kagan'90 left in the fourth inning to play intramuralbasketball, toting along his portable T.V. set. Hereturned in the seventh inning, slamming down theset and declaring "Give me a brew. I need to drownmy sorrows...
...Wyman was perhaps more alarmed by Tisch. Says Paul Kagan, publisher of the industry newsletter Broadcast Investor: "It was pretty obvious early on that Tisch was something more than the man Wyman invited in to help stop a takeover." Along with some $750 million that he has poured into CBS stock, Tisch had made a strong and still growing commitment of his personal attention to the network. Wyman and his supporters on the CBS board -- at one time they numbered at least eight -- began to worry that their white squire was a serious takeover threat...
...Jerome Kagan has finally acknowledged what most mothers have always known: each child arrives in the world with an individual personality. Psychologists have imposed an enormous burden on parents by insisting that they are somehow solely responsible for their children's personalities. Now parents can sit back and enjoy each child's uniqueness...