Word: zimmerer
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...with the idea you're just going to do a nip and a tuck," Strick says. "They say it's two weeks' work on one character. Four months later, you're still on the picture." While on the job, you must be, in the words of talent agent Jeremy Zimmer, "an artist, a technician and a diplomat" -- jobs that may be mutually exclusive. The trick, Whedon says, is to "know how to please people without turning work into junk...
When criticized once for making a move not strictly "by the book," erstwhile manager Don Zimmer responded indignantly: "What friggin' book?" Bruce Shlain's Baseball Inside Out is a collection of entertaining anecdotes that try to capture the triumphs and travails of an uncertain game with "no friggin' book" to serve as final arbiter. Shlain is fascinated by the "games within the games," the complex web of decisions and strategies, both on the field and off, that help give baseball its lofty place in the American sports pantheon...
When Paul Zimmer, director of the University of Iowa Press, got notification of his annual grant of support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the new language restricting allowable content sent him on a long, brooding walk. When Los Angeles choreographer Bella Lewitzky received her notice, she just crossed out the offending restrictions against obscenity before signing, a response the NEA would not allow. Media-minded impresario Joseph Papp of New York City's Public Theater wrote an op-ed open letter for the New York Times. The business-minded board of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, the largest...