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When Jeffrey A. Zucker '85 becomes executive producer of NBC's "Nightly News" show in February, he will be the youngest person ever to run the network's evening news broadcast...
...Ellen Zucker, a Cambridge resident andpresident of the Boston chapter of the NationalOrganization for Women (NOW), praised theordinance as a defeat of the "politics ofintolerance...
...SIlent-movie comedy. The first moments of BRAIN DONORS tell you this, with half-a-dozen quick, sprightly sight gags. The rest of Proft's script says the same thing: the talking isn't nearly so funny. Or perhaps it's the delivery. Proft, a longtime toiler in the Zucker brothers' Airplane! factory (The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!), has updated A Night at the Opera, this time with the anarchic philistinism demolishing a ballet company. But director Dennis Dugan's zanies -- John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith -- can't enunciate, and their playing is way too broad; they must think...
...Zucker: Obviously, we feel a sense of responsibility in movie-making, because you put something out there for the public. I don't want to be telling a Polish joke, for instance, on screen, because that does harm to people. I don't want to do anything that's going to really do any injury to any group...
...Zucker: Come to Hollywood, and don't call me! No. Here would be my best advice: If you want to make films, the first thing--if you want to be a writer, director or producer, if you want to develop movies--you should decide what it is you have to say, and you should practice telling a story on film. What I always tell people is, "Don't just go banging on doors and looking for a job. Get up a camera; equipment is so accessible nowadays. Just write a story and tell it on film. Then show...