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Publisher Malcolm Forbes, who died at 70 last month, was renowned for extravagant gestures, from hot-air ballooning over China to a $2 million birthday bash in Morocco. Last week Forbes Inc. employees received one last act of largesse from their late boss. In a memo, Forbes' son and successor Steve announced that, in accordance with his father's wishes, all 750 staffers would receive an extra week's pay. Moreover, up to $10,000 in loans from the company to any employee would be forgiven. "As Pop put it, 'Like a lottery, it's pure chance...
...Arkin) insists that they all are needed to perform a single task: pick up a perfectly preserved 1954 Cadillac convertible in Detroit and deliver it (despite speed traps, accidents and fights for control of its radio dial) to him in Florida unscathed and on time for their mother's birthday. But Fred unconsciously knows what movie storytellers have always known: if you force a disparate group of males together for a journey, they will, as they surmount its obstacles, achieve what Fred's sons lack -- true brotherhood...
From Bess Myerson's messy romance to Malcolm Forbes' birthday party, from Roseanne Barr's backstage tempests to William Hurt's palimony trial, the private doings of public figures preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...
February 7: I am taking a brief break to send my mother flowers to make up for missing her birthday yesterday. I am concerned that the "K" key on my keyboard has been sticking ever so slightly for the last four or five hours--I hope it won't impair my progress...
Instead, Ronald Reagan made plans to take some more golf lessons at the Los Angeles Country Club. He is dreaming of making a hole in one before his 80th birthday next year...