When Gene Kelly, playing debonair, swashbuckling silent film actor Don Lockwood in the iconic film musical Singin' in the Rain, is questioned by a gossip columnist for his key to success at a Hollywood movie premiere, he utters one sentence: "Dignity… always dignity." Chances are good that Kim Kelleher (pictured), AMC Networks' President of Commercial Revenue and Partnerships, faced with someone asking the same key to success question these days, will respond with an equally brief answer: empathy, always empathy.
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