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...been getting a reputation for inflexibility, an actor who tended to ruffle feathers on the set. During a Kojak appearance, his reluctance to say a line he did not think believable prompted Telly Savalas to call him a "prima donna." This intractability came to the fore when Producer Michael Mann called Olmos in 1984 and asked him to take the role of Lieut. Martin Castillo on a new show called Miami Vice. "I told him I couldn't do it," recalls Olmos. "It wasn't that I didn't need it. As it was, my wife and I couldn...
With a handful of scientists and journalists who were also appalled at the easy acceptance of Geller's claims, Randi founded CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which today includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Nobel Laureate Physicist Murray Gell-Mann and Psychologist B.F. Skinner. As CSICOP's point man, Randi sought out TV producers and editors and demonstrated that he could duplicate Geller's feats simply by using distraction and sleight of hand. Geller soon came a cropper. During a disastrous 22-minute appearance on the Tonight show, he failed to perform...
Major creative talents are starting to take notice. Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) were among a group of Hollywood producers who appeared before a convention of cable executives in Los Angeles this month to avow their interest in producing shows for cable. Martin Sheen has formed a production company to develop shows exclusively for cable. So has Shelley Duvall, a cable pioneer with her Faerie Tale Theatre series on Showtime. "In terms of creative freedom, cable television today is where broadcast television was in the 1950s," says Duvall. "Producers have...
With $500 "seed money" from Philips Brooks House, Nhan Truong this fall started a program providing in-school and after-school tutoring to the refugee children of Allston-Brighton. The program places Harvard student volunteers into the classrooms of Jackson-Mann School, where about 250 Vietnamese children from throughout the Boston area are currently enrolled in a bilingual program from kindergarten to fifth grade...
...volunteers, who can speak Vietnamese, assist the teachers by tutoring the students and participating in other classroom activities. "The teachers really appreciate the volunteer efforts," said Thuy Truong, a bilingual teacher at Jackson-Mann. "These educated young people can serve as role models for the children...