June 1, 2022

Trivia Answer:
Warren Skaaren ‘69 was credited as the associate producer of the original Top Gun movie released in 1986.

As president of the Student Association at Rice in 1969, he “was at the very center of the Masterson Affair, the turmoil over the board’s appointment of William Masterson as president that played out over five days in February of that year and ended with Masterson’s resignation”.  Click here for Melissa Kean’s riveting blog entry dated March 12, 2018.

Also, Alison Macor literally wrote the book on him entitled “Rewrite Man” (2017). Click here for her blog post entitled “Twelve Things You Didn’t Know About Screenwriter Warren Skaaren” including how “He saved Top Gun” as the uncredited "script doctor".  

Sadly, he died of bone cancer in 1990 at the age of 44 in Austin.

Way to go, Ann Bixby, Roger Parthasarathy, Scott Wise, Bob Toone, John Montana, Martha Proctor Gano, Bev Schorre, Nancy Bailey, Guy Rollins, Art Gottschalk, Kirwin Drouet, Paul Reese, Arthur Rogers, Betty Bixby, Nancy Burch, Ted Richard, Jimmy Disch, Bryant Wilkinson, James Walker, Russell Henderson, Dick Fuqua, Bob Reinhold, Mike Rogers, Mike Ross, Melinda Clark, Chris Kohnhorst and Sallie Schwall!  

Next trivia question tomorrow!

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