So the question arises, what made the director-producer team of Alvin Rakoff and Christopher Morahan take on such a book in the first place?

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"He can talk to them about both their on-field and off-field businesses, and in the way that he has migrated from singer to producer to sports-team owner, show them a path that I'm sure a lot of them would like to follow one day, " Mr. Horowitz said.

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To help him navigate Tinseltown's treacherous waters, he picked Howard Baldwin, a film producer perhaps better known for being co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team when it skated into bankruptcy.

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To help him navigate Tinseltown's treacherous waters, he picked Howard Baldwin, a film producer also known for being a co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team when it skated into bankruptcy.

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But the producer who hired me knew that we would be working very closely together on a four-person team that put together nightly discussion segments with hard on-air deadlines.

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