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Actors are salesmen. Stories, characters, movies are their products, and they are the packaging and the pitch. That makes film stars the industry's supersalesmen. And no one closes a deal with more assurance or grace than George Clooney...
Actors are salesmen. Stories, characters, movies are their product, and their physicality is the seductive packaging. That makes movie stars the industry's supersalesmen. And no one closes a deal with more assurance or grace than George Clooney. Not that all his pictures are blockbusters. Since A Perfect Storm in 2000, only the Ocean's (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen) capers have topped $100 million at the domestic box office. But Clooney - handsome and affable, and blessed with a wit that can charm and cut - is surely the modern idea and ideal of stardom. Other celebrities seem tortured by public attention; Clooney...
...TRANSITION: Bill's Supersalesmen...
...When Supersalesmen John Veronis and Nicolas Charney announced plans last month to recast and expand the staid Saturday Review (TIME, Nov. 22), they sought someone to serve as "a strong right arm" to Editor Norman Cousins. After Cousins abruptly resigned in disagreement with the magazine's new owners (TIME. Nov. 29), Charney took the title of editor and stepped up the search for what he called a "consummate professional" to help him revitalize and run the Review. The search ended last week with the selection of TIME Senior Editor Ronald P. Kriss...
...York's Lincoln Center and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center. Charney and Veronis have plans for a Saturday Review book series (first subject: culture, featuring volumes on ballet, opera, etc.) and Saturday Review Special Projects, offering subscribers book and record packages, sculpture, lithographs and, as the supersalesmen say, other "items of high quality offering a particularly good value...