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Last-place NBC derails Silverman and hires Grant Tinker...
SUPERTRAIN (NBC, daily, 7 a.m.-2 a.m.) Last show of the series. The Supertrain is commandeered by Freddie, a brilliant but unstable technician who rearranges the schedule, fires the porters, loses most of his passengers and nearly derails the crack RCA Express. Freddie: Fred Silverman. Executive discretion is advised...
...been called brilliant, thoughtful, incisive and screamingly funny. Also, vicious, infuriating, cruel and unfair. NBC President Fred Silverman no longer returns his calls. His thrice-weekly Washington Post TV column, "On the Air," syndicated in 59 other newspapers, causes teeth-gnashing in Hollywood and heartburn in Manhattan's network headquarters. Critic Tom Shales, 33, the plump, droll, sometimes zany man at the heart of all this Sturm und Drang, puts his brown-and-tan saddle shoes up on the desk in his cramped fifth-floor office at the Post and shrugs off all the fuss: "The networks...
...that Harvard recived tax abatements and did not inform the Rent Control Board about them; hence, they were not passed along to the tenants. HTU organizers claim that the abatements total nearly $500,000; Silverman says that the Rent Board was fully notified of the abatements and that subsequent rent increases were smaller because of them...
...work on 18-20 Ware Street and other buildings, spent some of his time trying to find a way around the law. And though HRE eventually installed the required modifications to the Ware Street apartments, Tucker's memo to HRE president Sally Zeckhauser and vice-president Robert Silverman provides a revealing look at one of the services tenants--as well as students and alumni--pay for as part of HRE's daily business operations...