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Clinical fellows in ambulatory pediatrics tend to plight their troth to otolaryngologists with thriving law practices on the side. The fathers of these wunderkind tend to head retailing or philatelic concerns. Their children's accomplishments constitute proof that the American dream is alive and well. The mothers, almost always, are psychotherapists or social workers (Now we know where Betty Friedan's original target audience ended...
...director Mike Nichols (who, at 61, epitomizes a certain Manhattan strain of cool, cerebral show-business class) dumps his long-time agent, the legendary Sam Cohn (who, at 64, epitomizes a certain Manhattan strain of cerebral, relentlessly colorful show-business class) in favor of the powerful Creative Artists Agency wunderkind Jay Maloney (who, at 28 -- 28! -- epitomizes a certain L.A. strain of clear-headed, buttoned-down, reassuringly colorless show-business class), the switch seems emblematic of larger, longer-running shifts in the way movies and plays get produced...
...amid the grand, vaporous profusion of light on silk and marble. No later court painter -- at least not in England -- would rival Van Dyck's poetic conception of kingship. From there it is downhill to Winterhalter, though Americans will be interested to see their very own Benjamin West, the wunderkind from the colonies and George III's favorite artist, doing a full length of the monarch with Redcoats in the background in 1779. No Yankee rebel, he. The main lesson here about British royal taste is how fast it died after 1830. It would have done better with Mad King...
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would...
...month ago, CBS News wunderkind Andrew Lack had a long-term contract with the most successful network in broadcast TV. Hence the surprise of last week's announcement by basement broadcaster NBC that Lack will head its news division, following such debacles as NBC's staged explosions during a report on allegedly fire-prone GM trucks. Though Lack lacks credits as a network-news czar, he boasts a host of awards for TV news programs he has produced, as well as experience working with the cream of video journalism, including NBC anchor Tom Brokaw...