Word: baer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gambling, decor counts: you may be feeding quarters into a slot machine and scarfing the $3.99 all-you-can-eat buffets--but, hey, you're in ancient Rome! MAX BAER JR., who played Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies, thinks Reno gamblers will enjoy the rags-to-riches leitmotiv of a $120 million Hillbillies-theme casino and hotel. His plans include Granny's Shotgun Wedding Chapel, Jethro's All You Ken Et Buffet and a giant oil derrick. City officials object to the idea...
...detox drama? Critics point to an April article in the Wall Street Journal that detailed instances of TV shows being successfully lobbied by medical foundations and others to include dramatizations of specific diseases. In one example the Journal described how the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation wooed Dr. Neal Baer, an E.R. writer and producer, besieging him with studies on the increased risk of contracting AIDS for those with chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease--a risk that was then mentioned...
...Baer denies that he was lobbied to put either chlamydia or rapid-detox on E.R. Chlamydia is a common problem and so, in Hollywood, is heroin addiction; one marquee actor is reported to have gone through ultrarapid detox just in time for this year's Academy Awards. In fact, says Baer, the idea for the detox episode came from a pediatric anesthesiologist invited by E.R. to help generate story lines...
...only time it was hard was at Thanksgiving dinner because you notice the little differences in the way your family does it from theirs. If someone doesn't put the jelly on the right size plate, you want to cry for Mom," said Daniel B. Baer...
...Frank Raines, the Budget Director, pre-emptively took his name out of the running, but Clinton is said to be pressing him to reconsider. Meanwhile, a President whose team has already lost the intellectual energy and political acumen of such first-term stars as George Stephanopoulos, Harold Ickes, Don Baer and, yes, Dick Morris is facing another wave of retirements. Among those polishing their resumes include spokesman McCurry, counselor Doug Sosnik and, if he doesn't get Bowles' job, chief lobbyist John Hilley...