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Fischler is even willing to say that sometime customer Michael Ovitz, chairman of Creative Artists Agency and the most powerful person in show business, is a bit of a stiff. "I can kibitz with everyone except him. He can afford to be independent, I suppose." Judging by his candid razzing of the movie-business elite, Fischler can obviously afford to be independent as well...
Business seminars also offer a chance to kibitz with outsiders. "What's neat," says an Indiana man, "is you're not competing, so you don't mind exchanging ideas. I'm in explosives, and he's making mattresses for hotels. So you don't worry about trade secrets as such...
...Jerry Jessick, 17, center on the school's football team, and Classmate Kevin Gilhuly, 16, have scheduled a weekly game of Scrabble with Florence Stewart, 73, who has been slowed down a bit by a stroke. Says Jessick, admiringly: "She's very competitive." Other students watch and kibitz at games of "cutthroat cribbage" played after lunch by Martin Bethke, 86, and Milford Howell, 66. Says Butch Hogan, 16: "I'm just learning...
There's not a whole lot of interaction between the staff assistants even on a purely social level, Gibson says. "Sometimes it'll happen that two or three of us will end up in the same place at the same time and kibitz for a few minutes but it's rare. It's not that it's a tense or intense kind of place but it just doesn't lend itself to that," she says. "One person to one office really sets the tone," Gibson adds. In this respect, Gibson's experience at Widener, where about ten people shared...
...watch a copy he had of the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's assassination. Noted Prinze's TV costar, Jack Albertson: "A combination of things had him down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into himself. But he would recover. He would joke, have fun, kibitz around. Then the next day he would be depressed again." Says Komack: "His real despondency, whether he could articulate it or not, concerned the questions: 'Where do I fit in? Where is my happiness?' I would tell him, 'God, Freddie, your happiness is right here...