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DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, undiplomatic Canadian author whose humorous and often irreverent writings gave equal time to mocking the bourgeoisie, Judaism, life in Montreal and elitist Quebecois; of complications from kidney cancer; in Montreal. Richler's first acclaimed novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language...
...Both are canny professionals who grew up with the medium. Lear served an apprenticeship as a comedy writer in the '50s and '60s with Martin Lewis, George Goble, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Andy Williams, among others. Yorkin staged such shows as Martin and Lewis's, Gobel's, and Dinah Shore's, later directed specials for Jack Benny and Fred Astaire. Together, as partners in a venture called Tandem Productions they revolutionized TV comedy by adapting a British TV hit into "All in the Family...
...paid studio assistants to do everything from wash brushes to manage their archives," fails to acknowledge the intensity of engagement with his or her work that an artist must have in order to create, as well as the complex business of managing artists and the value and prestige of apprenticeship or internship experience. The VES department functions within this reality, and as a result, the program has improved vastly, as evidenced by the thesis exhibitions in recent years and the graduate school acceptances from programs at Yale and California Institute of the Arts. Our larger concern, however, is whether...
...Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...Paul Rein's musical apprenticeship began in the early '80s. A Swedish pop phenom, Rein drove teenage girls into adoring delirium and even up trees. After three albums, his star faded - "I had nothing left to give" - but he learned how to relate to audiences and "how to get the right twist" in songs. He moved into the studio, writing radio ad jingles. He learned not only how to program and arrange, but also what works on air. "If the hook's not there in seconds, you're dead," he advises...