Aaron Spelling's autobiography

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    Aaron Spelling is the television producer who gave us CHARLIE'S ANGELS, T. J. HOOKER, DYNASTY, MELROSE PLACE, MOD SQUAD, and BEVERLY HILLS 90210.  Farrah Fawcett, Heather Locklear--the man's a genius.
    His autobiography is A PRIME-TIME LIFE (1996).  "High concept" and Paul Klein are never mentioned!
    However, other things are of interest:

Pg. 10  George (McCall) was a writer who once coined the famous headline for _Variety_--"Hicks Nix Stix Pix."
Pg. 47  We coined the phrase "Burke's Law-isms" because Amos (Burke--ed.) had all these great quips.  There were four per show and we even published a book of them.
Pg. 49  I keep remembering Dick Powell's (Spelling produced THE DICK POWELL SHOW for NBC, 1961-63--ed.) line.  I wish I had said it to CBS: "If it's not broken, don't fix it!"
Pg. 115  "What's wrong with sheer escapism entertainment...cotton candy for the mind?"  (Spelling describes "Cotton Candy King of TV" and "King of the Jiggle"--ed.)

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   An answer from Case Western Reserve University is attached.
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