Quick Takes BETH KLEID, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
Time for New 'Playhouse' MALCOLM STUART, Malcolm Stuart spent more than 15 years as a writer's agent, starting as an office boy at MCA. He later became a founding partner of Preminger-Stuart Agency, representing film writers and directors. He spent 30 years as a producer of TV movies and miniseries for Lorimar Productions and Fries Entertainment. For the last five years, he has been an adjunct professor at the Cinema/TV School at USC
Taking Aim at Guns in Films STEVE STAJICH, Steve Stajich is a writer-producer supervising comedy development for Popular Arts Entertainment in West Hollywood
'Eye's' Unspoken Truth IRA ZIMMERMAN, Ira Zimmerman is president of the Cal State Fullerton Center for Children Who Stutter and a board member of the National Stuttering Project