Word: lear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trailing King Lear-like complaints of being ignored, President P.W. Botha, 73, resigned last week. National Party leader F.W. de Klerk was named acting President by the Cabinet until next month's parliamentary elections can formalize the succession. The question is whether this change will make a difference...
...second spot: "Public lands aren't like pizzas. You can't call up and order more." Tips about recycling, ozone depletion and aerosol sprays will be inserted in next season's shows. "If characters on shows are making these changes, they will impact the home," says producer Norman Lear...
...toward making environmental awareness as crucial a part of their scripts and songs as boy meets girl. The Environmental Media Association, a clearinghouse for save-the-earth societies, is fronted by such heavyweights as Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Creative Artists Agency President Michael Ovitz, MCA President Sid Sheinberg, and Lear, who with his wife Lyn was a group founder. At the letter-stuffing level, the Earth Communications Office is targeting the few thousand actors, writers, producers and directors whose work reaches billions of people. In seminars and trips, ECO will educate creative folk on earth-shaking issues...
...Lear discreetly sidesteps rumors of a boyfriend, but she says, "For older women, like older men, money is a plus when it comes to attracting the opposite sex." Except for weekly dinners with her two daughters, entertainment means magazine business. Parties are held at her Southampton beachfront mansion or cavernous Fifth Avenue apartment with its giant de Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary...
...Frances Lear was a feisty child, a frustrated housewife and finally a divorcee with big money. With it, she is trying to free her female agemates from the youth cult...