Word: successful
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...Chairman Frank Mancuso, 53, the marketing whiz who took over the studio's top job in September 1984. A 25-year Paramount veteran, Mancuso worked his way up through the company's marketing and distribution ranks. Along the way, he became an important ingredient in Paramount's success over the years. Mancuso, says one of his superiors at Gulf & Western, "has an extraordinary sense of what is going to work in the * marketplace and how to position it." As Paramount chief, he has clearly outdone himself in that department by leading the studio back to the top. His reaction...
More important, Newhart is running with the easy, confident stride of a TV series at the peak of its form. Success has come without any of the usual sitcom crutches: not a single regular character is a wisecracking child, irreverent senior citizen or cute extraterrestrial. "Let's just say we're not a high-impact comedy like Laverne and Shirley," says Newhart, 57. "We give the audience credit for having some intelligence." Newhart's leisurely, low- voltage style sets the tone; instead of rapid-fire gag lines, he opts for shrewdly timed pauses, stammers and deadpan understatement. He gets...
Since the ruggers' fantastic success between 1979 and 1984--when the ruggers won four Ivy championships, the national championship in 1984, and a host of other local titles--the club has been able to capture only a single title of any sort. Last October, as host of the N.E. Championships, the squad was eliminated in the first round...
...cagers cooled down after constructing their initial 17-point lead, and the Jaspers had success going inside against Harvard's 1-3-1 and 2-3 zones...
...most standards, Danny Simon has more than fulfilled his boyhood dreams of show-business success. But the brother with whom he shared those dreams has attained immeasurably more. As a result, says Danny, "I have been living so long with 'Neil Simon's brother' " -- sometimes, erroneously, with "Neil Simon's younger brother" -- "that I'm thinking of changing my name." He adds, with the grin of a borsch-belt comic trying a little too hard, "That always gets a laugh." In fact, there is often a tinge of sadness in Danny's jokes about the situation. He admits, "The more...