Others have included James Dickey , the novelist ( '' Deliverance '' ) and poet ( U.S. Poet Laureate , 1966 – 1968 ) , who joined as a copywriter on Coca-Cola in 1956 , working first in New York and then in Atlanta for a few years ; Edward Lewis Wallant , who worked ( 1957 – 1961 ) as an art director in New York while he was writing the novel '' The Pawnbroker '' ( 1961 ) , which became in 1964 the first U.S. film to treat the horrors of The Holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor ; Bert Sugar , the sports historian and boxing writer , who worked in New York in the 1960s ; Bryce Courtenay , one of Australia 's best-selling authors ( '' The Power of One '' ) , who worked in Sydney for more than a decade starting in 1959 , including as creative director ; Ismail Merchant , who joined New York as an account executive in 1958 while developing his first film , '' The Creation of Woman '' ( 1960 ) , and then went on to form Merchant Ivory Productions , famous for movies such as '' A Room with a View '' ( 1985 ) and '' Howards End '' ( 1992 ) ; Grant Tinker , who was director of program development in McCann New York ( 1954 – 1957 ) , and then co-founded MTM Enterprises ( '' The Mary Tyler Moore Show '' ) and later became CEO of NBC ( 1981 – 1986 ) ; Stan Weston , who created the G.I. Joe action figure and helped develop the '' ThunderCats '' cartoon series ; comic actor Dave Thomas , who was a Toronto and New York copywriter at the agency on Coca-Cola ( 1974 – 1976 ) , known for portraying Doug McKenzie in '' SCTV '' s early 1980s Bob and Doug McKenzie skits with Rick Moranis ; and Shonda Rhimes ( '' Grey 's Anatomy '' ) , whose first job out of college in 1991 was as a writer in San Francisco
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