Word: mockingbird
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...just plain citizens who weighed in last week after MCA chairman Wasserman announced that he was selling Universal Pictures and the rest of the MCA entertainment giant to Matsushita Electric Industrial for $6.1 billion. How could he, they asked, sell to foreigners the studio that made To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would...
Parks, 47, has the salt-and-pepper hair and gentle, distracted manner of a day player in To Kill a Mockingbird. He was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., during the waning days of World War II. His father was the founder of Dick Parks and the White Swan Serenaders, and when not being what his son calls "an avocational musician," he pursued psychiatry as a colleague of Karl Menninger's. Young Van Dyke landed his first professional job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since...