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Benninger still seeks advice from his old mentor Karras when he is not sure how to diagnose a play. "He really knows his stuff," Benninger says of Karras. "If you really listen and pay attention and try to do the things the way he teaches you, you'll turn out to be a pretty good player...
...followed famed historian Frederick Jackson Turner to Harvard where he expanded on his mentor's well-known "frontier thesis" of American history and in so doing established himself as one of the foremost American historians...
...operatic heroine onstage. But she might have been offering her philosophy of life. She came out of an unhappy childhood-appallingly fat and resentful and lonely-and clawed her way to success and greatness with a singlehearted ferocity that awed even her enemies. Conductor Tullio Serafin, her indispensable mentor in the crucial early days, was tossed aside temporarily-for daring to record La Traviata with another soprano. Enraged at the Callas ego, La Scala Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano declared, "I'm never going to sing opera with her again." Later he changed his mind about Callas, but then...
Money has never mattered to Freddie," adds Mike Dann, Silverman's mentor and the man who preceded him as CBS's top programmer. "What he really wanted was respect for the tremendous role he was playing in the company. Freddie quit almost 250 times at CBS, but, far more important, during at least half his time there I can count three network presidents who wanted to fire him." Silverman's own explanation for his leave-taking is the most poignant: "I found I wasn't laughing any more...
...idol down on his luck, merely suggested his film potential. Several more -Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Blume in Love, Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore -followed. Last year's A Star Is Born, in which he played Barbra Streisand's aging, self-destructive mentor, made Kristofferson a superstar...