Word: steven
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Transfer student Steven Colarossi, chairman of the Dudley House Committee, said he's running because he wants to encourage more non-resident students to vote and run in future elections...
Indeed, three of the season's four new anthology shows deal explicitly with the unexpected, the strange and the fantastic: Steven Spielberg's eagerly awaited Amazing Stories, a new TV version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both on NBC), and CBS's reincarnation of The Twilight Zone. CBS is premiering a fourth series, George Burns Comedy Week, which will feature a different comedy segment each week, linked by Burns, who acts as host, and the creative oversight of Co-Executive Producer Steve Martin. Each of these anthologies has enlisted a notable array of directors and writers who rarely or never...
...Moreover, there was turmoil at the top of NBC's parent corporation, RCA: three presidents and four chairmen within a decade. It was not until the fifth chairman, Thornton Bradshaw, hired Tinker to run NBC in July 1981 that hope and trust were restored to the network. Says Steven Bochco, whose Hill Street Blues had been spawned by Silverman and produced by Tinker: "The day Grant went to NBC, the industry's attitude toward that network changed profoundly, overnight...
...against Dallas or The Love Boat. That's part of the problem of being last--you don't get to bat against your own pitching. There was one thing we could offer good producers, though: that they could make the show they wanted to make." That promise applied to Steven Bochco in 1981 even as it does today to Steven Spielberg. "I started my career directing TV," Spielberg says, "and my shows were often changed by the networks in ways I didn't like. When I returned to TV, I wanted the same freedom I have in feature films...
Perhaps more important, the innovative visual style of Miami Vice has helped show TV executives that there are alternatives to the cookie-cutter blandness of most network fare. Says Joshua Brand, a co-creator of St. Elsewhere who is co-producing Steven Spielberg's new series Amazing Stories: "The success of Miami Vice shows that people do notice production values, lighting and what comes out of those little television speakers...