Word: wunderkind
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...building a career on comedy, but Simon H. Rich ’06-’07 seems to be proving that he is no joke. In his short time as an alumnus, the wunderkind has been frightfully prolific: he is the youngest writer in the history of “Saturday Night Live,” has his work appear regularly in The New Yorker, and has just renewed his contract with Random House after publishing two books with them in the last two years. FM snagged the budding author for fifteen questions...
...from the distractions at home and spent many nights in a room in the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago. These late-night sessions produced long, meandering texts that were then circulated to a close group of advisers, including Axelrod and Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau-a 27-year-old wunderkind wordsmith. "When you're working with Senator Obama the main player on a speech is Senator Obama," Axelrod said. "He is the best speechwriter in the group and he knows what he wants to say and he generally says it better than anybody else would...
...York director, disclosed that his agency has 35 insider- trading cases under investigation. Wall Street, said a senior Manhattan investment banker, ''feels like Hollywood in the McCarthy era.'' Speculation that Levine was adding new names to the scandal has been growing exponentially since the former investment wunderkind began to cooperate fully with Sorkin and Giuliani about three weeks ago. To settle charges filed by the SEC, Levine has been forced to disgorge $11.5 million--virtually all his wealth--to the court, and is barred from the securities business for the rest of his life. He still faces sentencing on July...
...brass, allowing an executive just one afternoon to read his new script before returning it to him. That sort of bravado works only as long as the product sells. But when The Lady in the Water belly-flopped with $42 million domestic, Hollywood could finally say no to the wunderkind. The Happening is distributed by 20th Century Fox, but the list of seven or eight producers and executive producers in the credits suggests that Shyamalan raised the money for this one himself, and that he's no longer the independent golden boy - just another indie-film director scrambling for backers...
...problem of global warming, he added, “it will take Western subsidies for clean coal...the Indians and the Chinese are not going to voluntarily buy the most expensive coal in the world.” Audience members said they enjoyed the speech by Zakaria, a wunderkind who edited Foreign Affairs while still in his twenties. “He’s definitely one of the thinkers of the modern era,” said Sayed Naveed, who added that he appreciated the fact that an immigrant like Zakaria was able to become...