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...there with my fresh-from-the-headlines political jokes, trying to become the Mort Sahl of the '90s. The New York Observer described one of my early performances: "He holds the microphone like a dead fish." Trust me, I've grown as an artist. I have a monthly gig, along with four other talented baby-boomer comics, at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan. The Washington Post dubbed our performance LAUGH RIOT IN THE BIG APPLE. My sold-out one-man show in Paris prompted Le Monde to gush, "Jerry Lewis, move over." (O.K., I made that last...
...Dylan, a rock-'n'-roll American kid who first heard Woody Guthrie while enrolled for a few months at the University of Minnesota, took up folk. Got a ride to New York. Settled in Greenwich Village. Took any gig he could get. Within two years--tops--turned folk inside...
...persuaded a judge to stop the sale of a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed to the recording. Harrison disputed this: "One drunk person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute a business deal...
SUSAN MCDOUGAL Like Liddy, paying a price for silence. Will she get a radio gig...
...Dunlapian cost cutting that excites Wall Street. The biggest of his buys, Coleman, with '97 revenues of $1.2 billion, is roughly the same size as Sunbeam and has problems similar to those Dunlap faced at Sunbeam when he arrived in July 1996. Coleman essentially becomes Dunlap's next turnaround gig. Only he bought it instead of being hired. (Job hunting is such a drag.) If he can work his formula at Coleman, Sunbeam's stock will shoot much higher. With that in mind, Wall Street rolled out the red carpet, pushing Sunbeam shares up 24% in a week. Remember...