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...campaign field offices of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in New York City's Harlem district are separated by just five blocks on Malcolm X Boulevard. Located in a converted storefront at 130th Street, Obama's headquarters were leased from a real estate office just two weeks ago. Last Thursday a stable of supporters worked the phones with unflagging energy, enumerating their candidate's merits with the fervor of the converted. But like any nascent operation, it was still ironing out the kinks. "Someone came in on Monday and donated a printer, but we keep running out of ink," says...
...issues and adversaries were much different from today's, but the dispute was perhaps more rancorous. In the 1970s, the stucco box on Sunset Boulevard that housed the Comedy Store was a nightly practice field for up-and-coming comics who would troop onstage to hone their material, try out new jokes?and hope to get seen by the agents, managers and talent scouts who were regular clubgoers. The club's owner, Mitzi Shore?a pretty, petite brunet with a whiny, Roseanne-like voice who had inherited the Comedy Store in a divorce from comedian Sammy Shore?viewed the place...
...late March of 1979, with the talks at an impasse, the comedians went on strike. A picket line was assembled in front of the Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard, the strikers carrying placards with slogans like no money, no funny and the yuk stops here. The spectacle of stand-up comedians, many of them well known from television, recasting themselves as extras in F.I.S.T., was an irresistible national story. Johnny Carson made jokes about it on The Tonight Show. Some of the more established comics were scornful ("This strike is the biggest joke I've ever heard come...
...didn't understand the magnitude of it. She was a bad horse to back." Mitzi, complaining that she could no longer afford to keep all her showrooms open on slow nights, shut down her Westwood club on weekdays and reduced the number of time slots at the Sunset Boulevard club - which meant less work for the comics...
...through the night sky like fireworks. It's either July 4th or Sept. 11th. More like the latter, because devastation and hysteria have engulfed lower Manhattan. Then, in flash glimpses, we see the cause of the carnage. A scaly tail, long as a city block and wide as a boulevard. A furtive figure 25 stories big. Whatever the thing is, it's alien, it's odd-looking and it's royally pissed...