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The Greek Deal with Businessman Leonard Stern and The Met for Large Cycladic Art Collection Looks Like a Mess
A new agreement with Greece and billionaire businessman Leonard N. Stern should have been an easy win for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, already under increased scrutiny for the several cases of looted antiquities identified by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office this year alone. But the agreement is already under major criticism from numerous experts and Greek politicians.
This week, the museum announced the signing of the agreement, known as a memorandum of understanding, between the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport, the private Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens (MCA) and the Met that would bring 161 Cycladic artifacts from Stern’s personal collection to the New York museum for a 25-year display period starting in January 2024.
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Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88
Leonard Stern, a producer, writer and director who helped create The Honeymoonersand Mad Libs, died Tuesday of heart failure, Variety reports. He was 88 years old.
A New York native, Stern got his start in Hollywood in the '50s writing bio screenplays, including Abbott and Costello in the utländsk Legion, The Jazz Singer and the Jack Lemmon film Three for the Show. His career shifted to TV, and he began writing for The Jackie Gleason Show.
Stern went on to help Gleason create The Honeymooners in 1955 and wrote 14 episodes for the classic sitcom. He created three more series: I'm Dickens ... He's Fenster, He & She and The Governor and J.J.
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He later served as head writer on The Steven Allen Show and executive producer and writer on the spy comedy Get Smart. Stern also worked on drama series, executive-producing McMillan and Wife, and working on • Published Jun 09, 2011 • Last updated 13 years ago • 1 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. With sentence structure a passé element of school curricula, chances are most kids learned the difference between nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives by playing Mad Libs. You know, it was the ____ (noun) that involved ____ (verb) in the ____ (plural noun), usually with fits of hilarity ensuing. Now that we’ve brought you back down memory lane, we’re sorry to say that Leonard Stern, the creator of the word game and also a TV writer for shows like and , passed away on Tuesday. Advertisement 2 Story continues below This advertisement has not
Leonard Stern, creator of Mad Libs, has died
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