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...working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest of my life.' I said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, David.'" Says Argus Hamilton, one of the comics who was closest to Mitzi: "It broke her heart...
...Hamilton began negotiating as her representative and presented her with a proposal to pay the comedians twenty-five dollars per set in the Original Room. She rejected it flat out. "She was so hurt over David Letterman that she continued to dig her heels in," he says. "She just absolutely refused. It cost her her greatest strength: her cool rationality." As the strike dragged on, Mitzi tried to lure the comics back with a promise to pay them twenty-five dollars per set on weekends only. Garry Shandling, one of the club's top acts at the time, thought...
...when an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the comedians, as independent contractors, could not be unionized. "In my personal view, workman's comp, benefits - those were always in the back of Mitzi's mind as something that would break the Comedy Store," says Hamilton. "I was thrilled," Mitzi says of the ruling. "It meant they never had to pay taxes to the government...
...space," a radical street-design principle he quietly pioneered in more than 120 projects across Friesland. By the time he died of cancer last month, Monderman's local lessons had gone global: his notion of shared space has become a buzzword for urban designers all over the world. Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a British traffic and urban-design consultant, says Monderman's legacy goes beyond even that: "Hans took a very mundane profession and made it explore much wider political and social questions about what public space and public life are all about...
News of the sale of the Maine homes followed rumors of a transaction involving another restricted gift: the 99-acre Harvard Forest in Hamilton, Mass, located about 30 miles northeast of the Cambridge campus...