Leonard Horn
Leonard Horn
Leonard J. Hornwas a director of US prime time television programs in the 1960s and 1970s, and helped shape a number of “classic” adventure and sci-fi series, including Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Wonder Woman. Contemporary fan-sites such as the viewer polling pages of the Internet Movie Databaseand TV.com show Horn’s work to have stood the test of time; many of the 94 episodes he directed for 34 prime-time television series rank among the...
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If the pageant's welfare was better served, you had to make a move. Today, it's exactly the situation they're in.
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The seeds of today's problems were sown three or four decades ago,
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They wanted us badly. But every time I broached the subject, the board turned me down cold,
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It's always been true that the Miss America pageant has to do whatever is necessary for its prosperity and well-being. It's a bad thing, in that they find themselves in a situation where they can no longer afford to be in Atlantic City. But if that's what it takes, they're obligated to keep the program alive.
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When I started, we had no money at all, ... We charged what we needed to make our expenses. There was never a reserve or any effort to capitalize on the asset, which is the single most important reason why we struggled all these years.
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