Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last-place NBC derails Silverman and hires Grant Tinker...
Says Grant Tinker, head of MTM Productions, who took full-page ads in the trade papers denouncing the TV Guide articles: "The blizzard is exaggerated. With the affluence around, I'd guess there's the same amount of use on Capitol Hill and Wall Street." That is not necessarily a comforting defense. Protests Jeff Wald, Helen Reddy's manager and husband, himself a former heavy cocaine user: "I've never seen coke used as a means of barter or a way of making a deal...
Although Shales is often acerbic about what he sees on TV, he is not contemptuous of the medium. This distinguishes him from other tart-tongued TV critics -and redeems him hi the eyes of many industry honchos. "He wants TV to be better," says M.T.M. President Grant Tinker (Hill Street Blues, WKRP in Cincinnati). Explains Shales: "People who respect TV are the ones I respect. It's the ones who wipe their feet on it whom I probably write nasty things about...
...younger Reagan's troubles began in March, when he telephoned several military installations-including Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, which supervises the maintenance of the President's plane, Air Force One-asking how to get on the "approved" list of contractors. He followed up the call with a letter that said in its second paragraph...
...ranks of the British Secret Service to head it between 1973 and 1978, and who was believed to be the inspiration for both "M," the intelligence chief in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, and George Smiley, the deceptively bland hero of John le Carré thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; of cancer; in London. In 1979 Oldfield emerged from a brief retirement to head an antiterrorist security force in Northern Ireland following the assassination of Earl Mountbatten by the Provisional I.R.A...