Term of the Day: golden gut

golden gut--an instinctual ability to predict hit shows. This is a reference to the disgraced producer Scott Rudin, who was taken to task in a New York Times hatchet job on his three decades of violent and emotionally vicious behavior on Broadway. New York Times, April 25, 2021. Rudin is heavyset and has a copious gut. "That producer had a golden gut...he was able to pick and produce shows that would be big hits."