latimes.com - 1/29/2009
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The end is near once again for John Wells. It's staring him in the face. The executive producer of one of television's groundbreaking shows sits with 45 pages of notes on his desk, a keyboard in his lap and a computer before him as he slowly taps out the final script to NBC's long-running ...
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