Word: budding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modeling itself on the winner, ABC, and in the process replaced almost its entire executive lineup. NBC also made big changes when Silverman arrived, and in Hollywood, where shows are produced, the standing joke is "If my boss calls, get his name." Robert Daly, president of CBS Entertainment, and Bud Grant, programming vice president, moved to Los Angeles to be nearer production. They were handed what seems to be a blank check to order pilots, giving them a much larger choice than their predecessors ever had. "They are grinding away very quietly there," says one Hollywood producer. "They are very...
...affect peripheral vision as well as the driver's ability to judge distances. Many truckers disdain the weed, claiming it puts them to sleep. Other truckers argue that, as one of them puts it, "It depends on what kind of smoke you got - Colombia Red Bud, Mexican Brown, home grown." They contend that smoking drivers compensate for loss of reaction time by reducing speed. Says one: "You never see a marijuana smoker chasing a guy down the road...
Good luck to Bud Bailyn, as he works on the Core...
...Harvard began rather haphazardly. He came to Harvard from Springfield, Ohio, and graduated with an engineering degree in 1930. With the onslaught of the Depression, however, Cavileer had to settle for a job with the YMCA. At the same time, however, a classmate of his by the name of Bud Galston, who had played J.V. football as an undergraduate, came to him with a scheme to keep statistics for the Crimson coaches...
...cloyingly--there are times when you want to rough him up a little for being too smarmy, and not nearly charming enough--but still manages a strong performance. And honors for a show-stopping effort go to Jim O'Brien, who brings to the part of Bud Frump--the boss's maddeningly wimpish nephew--not only an impressive comic flair, but also the best singing voice in the cast. O'Brien's clear, powerful solos in "Coffee Break" and "Gotta Stop That Man," the two best-staged production numbers, do full justice to Loesser's music...