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New Prevent Child Abuse Utah director may change nonprofit's direction

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:49pm

OGDEN — A change in leadership at Prevent Child Abuse Utah also may indicate a change in direction for the organization.

Suzanne Leonelli took over as executive director Jan. 17.

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John Rich (right), is pictured with Norman Lear in 1973 when they won an Emmy for outstanding series for "All in the Family." (Los Angeles Times)

John Rich, award-winner director of landmark sitcoms, dies at 86

Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 12:44am

LOS ANGELES — As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970.

On the same day he received a phone call from Mary Tyler Moore wanting to set up a meeting to discuss his directing the initial episode of her new TV series, he got a call from Norman Lear who wanted to send him a script for a pilot he was about to produce.

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Woody Allen still emotionally elusive in documentary

Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal

Last updated Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 2:49pm

The most significant moment in a new documentary about Woody Allen may be the sequence in which several people close to Allen -- and Allen himself -- use the word "compartmentalize" to describe how he handles situations.

The situation that prompts that word was the scandal following revelations that Allen was involved with the daughter of his then-companion Mia Farrow, and the brutal custody fight that ensued. Yet Allen, even in the midst of all those troubles, went about his daily work of making movies. Others insist that Allen was torn apart by the loss of custody of his children with Farrow; still, Allen himself remains emotionally remote, preferring to let others speak about his pain rather than address it himself. (One of the few things he does say is that the media firestorm surprised him because "I didn't think I was that famous.") Strong emotion is in a compartment he chooses not to open.

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