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No Vocation Without Representation

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As President of NBC Entertainment for nearly a decade, Warren Littlefield had navigated many sticky situations. He’d managed the notorious Jay-versus-Dave battle for The Tonight Show. He’d shocked the industry by paying $13 million an episode to keep E.R. on the air.1 And he’d made cultural history by standing by an odd little show that had received a “weak” score on its pilot report and got pulverized in its first season . . . only to metamorphose into one of the most groundbreaking series of all time: Seinfeld.

Yet now, as he stared out the third-story window of his office at the Littlefield Company, his ...

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