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...smelled smoked and someone knocked on my door to get us out," said Fred F. Little '87, who lives on the sixth floor of the building. Other residents also said they smelled a smoke shortly after the alarm sounded...
...third base in a Saturday-morning softball league ("a smart ballplayer and a good spray hitter," appraises one teammate). Moreover, in a business where the top dogs are usually tightlipped, Tartikoff is candid and accessible-qualities that have made him the most publicized network programmer since his legendary mentor, Fred Silverman...
...began to prove he could do better when, at 23, he went to work as director of advertising and promotion at WLS-TV in Chicago. He impressed his boss, Lewis Erlicht (now president of ABC Entertainment), with successful gimmicks like "Gorilla My Dreams Week," a festival of ape movies. Fred Silverman, then ABC'S programming chief, soon hired him, but Tartikoff left after a year to join NBC. Silverman later became president of NBC and promoted Tartikoff to the top programming slot in January...
...part, Fred shares what Vinnie calls "the assumption of very good-looking persons that as they pass through life they are entitled to take-and to leave--whatever they choose when they choose." His love life follows the path most easily navigated. On leave in London, he forgets the wife at home and romances a British lady. When the leave ends, he switches partners without having to change mindsets...
...added delight, Lurie serves her romantic comedy with a mix of entertaining minor characters. There's Fred's wife and her photo exhibition of the male organs Vinnie finds so distasteful, a Cockney housekeeper philosopher, and Edwin Frances, the "homosexual who likes to dress up in his hostess's clothes...