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...call Woody "Allen") enjoyed nothing like Elvis' celebrity, though the prototype "sick comic" had a unique notoriety. His corrosive comedy routines, and the occasionally raw language he used to make his satirical points, landed him in the docket on obscenity charges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "Factually, the show is indecent," he acknowledged. "The areas that I discuss are not pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance." Dirty words or no, Lenny's real crime was criticizing organized religion in cities where many of the police, prosecutors and judges were conservative Catholics...
...deal with HarperCollins. The 11-to-21-year-old market is huge, says CEO Jane Friedman, who predicts steady growth for the category. The Princess Diaries' Meg Cabot will publish Avalon High next spring; additional young-adult titles will follow. In January, Simon & Schuster expanded its partnership with San Francisco--based Viz Media, a top publisher that licenses manga from Japanese publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan. Random House just launched its second label, Tanoshimi. And Canadian Harlequin will launch Ginger Blossom, romance story lines in manga, in September...
...Penn, who helped organize the event, said he had heard of Ganji constantly when he visited the Middle East and wrote up his trip as a five-part series for the San Francisco Chronicle. "I like anybody who makes me say what I think - he does," said Penn. As the discussion ended later in the evening, the Hollywood crowd mingled around, soaking in all that they had heard. But at least one person in the room had another agenda in mind. "Let's go see Warren Beatty!" said Ganji's interpreter excitedly, as she corralled her charge...
Schrager's business, like that of most hoteliers, suffered after 9/11. He had expanded too rapidly, and the competition had caught up to him. By 2003, Schrager was forced into bankruptcy protection for the Clift Hotel in San Francisco and had to refinance debt. Last year he left his company, Morgans Hotel Group. Since then, he and his partner, developer Aby Rosen, have been involved in several deals in New York City, including 40 Bond, a condo in NoHo being designed by white-hot architects Herzog & de Meuron, and the Metropolitan Life building...
Experts in market psychology say stubborn sellers have a classic case of denial. Richard Peterson, a San Francisco psychiatrist who specializes in financial decision-making behavior, points out that "people would rather gamble and hope prices come back. They ignore information suggesting that prices are dropping." It's the same mentality that leads blackjack players to double down in a losing streak...