Word: money
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in private. The onetime high school misfit still has trouble fitting in. "I really can't trust anybody," Rock says. "Even the people who love you will have momentary lapses in love or they'll take advantage of you. It's too powerful, the fame and the money...
...rule No. 1, and it's so important that if you get it right, it will offset almost any home-buyer mistake. The Clintons did fine. They bought in a top-rated school district near reliable mass transit into Manhattan. They can be reasonably sure of getting their money out, reasonably quickly, anytime they sell...
Stars typically take the cheers or the heat for these moments; writers just take the money. It has ever been thus. Bob Hope's gagmen were awakened at 3 a.m. for emergency jokes; James Allardice wrote the droll TV monologues that made Alfred Hitchcock a household deity. But these scribes were as anonymous as the Roman speechwriter who whispered into the dying Caesar's ear, "Say, 'Et tu, Brute?'" So it's nice that Vilanch, a wide guy with a blond mop that makes him look like an obscene Senor Wences puppet...
CAREER PRIZE MONEY...
...wound up choosing Richard Weitz at Endeavor because he used the phrase "Let's make some money" three more times than any other agent. I also liked how the very attractive receptionist asked if I'd like to be validated. I told her I thought I already was and threw in the word "baby." She said she meant my parking. I figured if I came back, the Moonlighting-esque banter might continue...