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Princeton's 1979 Eastern champ Lynn Jennings and Brown's Anne Sullivan will provide Beckford with more than enough competition, while Yale and Penn both have new coaches who are building outstanding teams...
...long ago, moviegoers knew, or cared about, only the big stars-Streisand and Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust...
Some, like Robinson, work alone with their files and Rolodexes; others, like Lynn Stalmaster, have as many as half a dozen people on staff. Even after rent and salaries, however, an oldtimer like Stalmaster can make about $150,000 a year. That is enough to have attracted several dozen highly charged, highly competitive people to the job of caster. With a few exceptions, none of them is secure, and almost on a whim a producer can dump an old hand...
...however, the six Northeastern states are riding out the recession with unaccustomed ease. Unemployment is 6.1% in Massachusetts, for example, as compared with a national average of 7.8%. Forecasters expect that the region's economy will decline by only about half as much as the U.S. generally. Says Lynn Browne, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: "New England is stronger in relation to the rest of the country than at any time since World...
...less visible prints on the 884-page manuscript belong to Lynn Chalmers, one of twelve staff copy editors at Simon & Schuster. It normally takes about a month to copyread a book, but Chalmers completed the job in two weeks. She corrected punctuation, broke long segments into paragraphs, and checked facts. Inconsistencies were flagged on strips of pink paper and attached to the offending pages...