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...hefty $325,000 an hour. Meanwhile, despite a potential audience that CBS market researchers estimated at 5 million households, advertising revenues offset no more than $60,000 an hour of costs, and often less. Said Analyst Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Inc.: "CBS designed a solid-gold Cadillac when what might have worked was a Chevrolet...
...worth no more than the movie's last ten minutes, when the murderers are finally introduced. By then, you can't miss them: As Benson and Kerwin tool around town in their lavender VW convertible (homosexuals couldn't possibly drive a blue Chevy), an ominous-looking, long black Cadillac limousine appears...
...like the presidential Inauguration. He is also fascinated by old cars; he owns a 1950 Packard, a 1951 Studebaker, a 1962 Ford convertible and a 1963 Chrysler. (But he is driven to Capitol Hill from his home in northwest Washington, promptly at 8:30 every morning, in the brown Cadillac that is one of the perks of his office...
Lewellyn also had plenty of money for Kathryn Barakat, 35, a former hatcheck girl at a local club. He bought her a house and helped her buy a 1981 Cadillac and provided all the funds she wanted. Said she: "He wanted to marry me, and I was kind of dragging my feet, and so he decided to make me a very rich woman so that I could make up my mind and wouldn't have to marry him for money, and I wouldn't have to stay with my present husband because of the lack...
...sure of how to flash the news to the world, and people who are watching cannot be sure who is dramatizing what sort of status with what symbol. Order Gucci loafers and you only risk winding up shod the same way as the boy who delivers them. A Cadillac today signifies nothing about the owner except that he might well pull in at the next Burger King. Incontrovertibly, any game has been seriously maimed when you can no longer tell who is winning or losing. The status game had surely begun to turn absurd as soon...