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...Broadway. And then, in 1952, she became Alice on The Honeymooners. Meadows and co-star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender in a worldly wise way, always ready to forgive Ralph...
TIMOTHY PASTUCK 49, NEW YORK CITY: Limo driver Awakened by Melida Menzies' distraught daughter, Pastuck called 911 and ran to his neighbor's apartment to find what he described as a slaughterhouse: Menzies' boyfriend Efraim Correa beating her with a baseball bat. Pastuck rushed to get his rifle. When he returned, he said, he ordered Correa to stop, and shot him when Correa refused. Menzies, badly bruised, has thanked Pastuck, and authorities have dropped gun charges against him. The injured Correa faces attempted-murder charges...
...lemon business promises to become lemonade. In Dearborn, Michigan, last week, nine of the nation's biggest and most powerful automobile dealership owners (annual sales: about $4 billion) announced plans to invest $100 million in a chain of 10 Driver's Mart superstores, manned not by commission agents but by salaried "sales consultants" offering "pre-owned," "nearly new" and "off-lease" autos at nonnegotiable, uniform prices. Driver's Mart plans to sell the reconditioned cars complete with warranties and 30-day return policies. "When you think of shopping for a car," urges Driver's Mart president Thomas Eggleston, "think Home...
...first time since the 1990-91 season when the Crimson flirted with Ivy League perfection, the Harvard women's basketball team is in the driver's seat for the league championship...
...Travis attempts the same himself, ultimately seeking a sort of immortality, whether as an assassin of a political figure (the Senator, candidate for president) or as a noble representative of clean justice. To the very last minute of the film (when the screen changes to an eerie negative), "Taxi Driver" absorbs the audience in the madness of an ordinary...