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Kafatos had a major impact at Harvard, according to Professor of Biology William M. Gelbart. In the early 1980s, Kafatos was a key figure in making CDB a department, rather than a subcommittee of the biology department, Gelbart said...
...really created the Department of Cellular and Departmental Biology," Gelbart said...
...script by playwright and television writer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) focuses on the struggle between the two central characters: Johnson, played by James Garner, and Kravis, played by Jonathan Pryce, who starred in the Broadway hit musical Miss Saigon. People familiar with Wall Street will have serious problems with these two pieces of casting because Garner doesn't behave much like Johnson and Price doesn't look anything like Kravis...
...Johnson is kind of a super maitre d', a guy who really knows how to work a room," Gelbart explains. But in the book, Burrough and Helyar also portray him as a Machiavellian cutthroat who betrayed numerous colleagues on his way - to the top, a spendthrift who moved the RJR Nabisco headquarters to Atlanta -- callously firing thousands of employees in the process -- in part because he didn't like "bucolic" Winston-Salem, and a derelict CEO who repeatedly misled his shareholders, his employees and his board of directors...
What prevents Barbarians from being truly outstanding is Garner's miscasting plus Gelbart's reluctance to pull the trigger on the conniving Johnson. Example: in one scene, the born-to-shop Dr. Cupcake tells Ross a heart- wrenching story about her leg waxer's cousin, who was dumped from his job of 18 years when KKR took over his company. Seeking to illustrate the human carnage of leveraged buyouts, she informs hubby that the man went home and shot himself. Johnson looks concerned. Here, the film is taking real liberties with the truth. This conversation did not take place anywhere...