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...months later, when Rice dropped out of a treatment of P.G. Wodehouse's unflappable butler, Jeeves, Lloyd Webber enlisted Playwright Alan Ayckbourn and put the show on the boards in Bristol. It eventually closed in London after 47 performances -- a failure that continues to rankle the fierce perfectionist...
...when the daily Parade of Dreams Come True culminates in a refrain of "Tokyo Disneyland is your land . . . ," the line makes sense in more ways than one. Here, after all, is a flawlessly clean, high-tech, perfectionist model of the flawlessly clean, high-tech, perfectionist society. Small wonder, perhaps, that a couple of years ago, when a group of Japanese were asked what had given them the most happiness in life, more than half mentioned not marriage or family, nor work or religion or love, but simply, and inevitably, Disneyland...
Lewis is no easier on himself. Rising before dawn in his Manhattan brownstone house, he puts in eleven-hour workdays. He has a reputation for being an intense and demanding perfectionist who hates to lose, even in a tennis match. Says TLC Counsel Charles Clarkson: "Some people may say that he is difficult, but he focuses on what has to be done...
...fact, his manner and his voice were basic to his success, creating an illusion of ordinariness. This was not unplanned. Nothing in the use of his only instrument -- himself -- ever was. A cool calculator of effects, a steely perfectionist in execution, he always affected astonishment over adulation. As Mikhail Baryshnikov said, Astaire often seemed to stand wryly outside himself, observing his work as wonderingly as anyone else...
...average 95 pages, compared with about 60 for a typical TV hour, and take ten to twelve days to shoot (eight for most shows). Much of the production disarray, however, can be traced to Caron, 32, a portly ex-writer for Remington Steele. Co-workers describe him as a perfectionist who thrives on working close to deadlines and asking for last-minute major changes. The six staff writers have learned to cope with life on the edge. Says one: "When we get a couple of days ahead of the camera, it's time to take a long lunch...