Word: weitzman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riding the buzz. It is a buzz I built, albeit by accident. The buzz started last month, when I got a random call from Jed Weitzman, an ambitious 28-year-old manager at Brillstein-Grey. He told me that he really related to the pop references in my column and wanted to manage my Hollywood career, even though I didn't have one. Seeing as I am not the first to allude to The Brady Bunch in a story that was not about TV, I sensed this was just another lame cover for the attraction people feel for me after...
...Weitzman would get 10% of my take, which seemed steep until I realized it was 10% of nothing. That felt like a small price for a guy to call me all the time and tell me I'm funny. Still, I wanted to be sure I had the very best manager telling me I'm funny. So I asked some writer friends for the names of their agents and called three of them...
After I told Weitz he could be my agent, I found out I was also allowed to get a manager, even though they do the exact same thing. And it would only cost 20% of nothing. I told Weitzman to come aboard. He wanted to get right to work, starting with a meeting later this week with Weitz. So now I'm looking for a screenwriter to complete the team. I'm offering 10%. Please send applications to my agent...
...with two different cell types by inserting just three altered genes into their DNA. While these manipulations were done only in lab dishes and won't lead to any immediate treatment, they appear to be a crucial step in understanding the disease. This is a "landmark paper," wrote Jonathan Weitzman and Moshe Yaniv of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, in an accompanying commentary...
Bronfman may have created some problems by hiring his top executive team backward. When talks with Ovitz fell through, he hired Ovitz's partner, Meyer, as No. 2 man. Meyer installed his associate Sandy Climan and his friend Weitzman in top executive jobs. Both are now gone. And finally, with the key players already in place, Bronfman hired Frank Biondi as chairman of the company...