Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since a trial could hinge on Clinton's past sexual history, the President was reportedly asked Saturday about his relations with four other women. Because of a gag order from Judge Susan Webber Wright, neither side will comment directly on the case, but both have done everything possible to say, without saying, this message: Saturday was a good day for our side, and we can't wait for the trial where we will be proved right...
...hoped to persuade Seinfeld to stick with it for one more year. Though the comedian had already told his co-stars of his intentions, Seinfeld and his managers, Howard West and George Shapiro, gathered in New York City the Sunday before Christmas for a final hearing with Robert Wright, president and CEO of NBC, and Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of General Electric, NBC's parent company. The discussion lasted two hours at Wright's Central Park West apartment. "What made me want to come back," Seinfeld says, "was how much they believed in me. That...
...effort to prove Seinfeld still had creative life in it, Wright and Welch gave Seinfeld a formal presentation titled "Seinfeld: A Broadcast Phenomenon," full of neat and colorful charts--SEINFELD MORE DOMINANT THAN EVER--demonstrating that, unlike most shows that reach a ninth season, Seinfeld's audience was still growing, at least in the only demographic category that matters, adults ages 18 to 49. In a particularly sneaky appeal to Seinfeld's ego, the presentation included a graph showing his show's gains over the past five seasons, in contrast to the losses for fellow stand-up Tim Allen...
...days after his meeting with Welch and Wright, Seinfeld phoned Wright and gave him the news personally. Telling his co-stars had been a more loaded proposition, given their bonds as an ensemble and the fact that while Robert Wright still has a job, Michael Richards, for one, soon won't. Complicating things further was the fact that Richards, Alexander and Louis-Dreyfus had only recently received huge raises after a much publicized and, by some accounts, bitter holdout before the start of the current season. Their meeting took place Dec. 17 in Seinfeld's dressing room, where the cast...
...York. A generalist of wide-ranging talents, Gill began and ended his career at the New Yorker, alternating as a columnist and critic--of architecture and just about everything else. He wrote poetry, novels (The Trouble of One House), plays (La Belle), biographies (of Cole Porter and Frank Lloyd Wright) and even a best seller: Here at "The New Yorker...