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...result was How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which has since sold 300,000 copies and may have saved its readers as much as $80 million in legal fees. Another big seller is California Tenants' Handbook (85,000 copies), which drew this letter from a disgruntled landlord: "I have just read your fascinating book and have put [my wife's and my] duplexes up for sale. We can't survive with all those lawsuits you promote." The guides have produced relatively few suits; most readers use them as an aid to routine, non-courtroom procedures...
...discount as an empty platitude McLaughlin's prediction of a winning record and a run at the conference title. For the first time in years, and possibly for the first time ever, the landlord of the IAB has the talent to back up what he says...
...song collection for Casablanca (to be followed by more comedy discs). He is oft-seen on television: HBO shows, Johnny Carson, and two NBC specials this fall, with guests Rodney Dangerfield, Jane Curtin, Judd Hirsch and the Charlie Daniels Band. And he is not unknown in movies either: The Landlord, Hooper and the in-progress animated film The Last Unicorn. Klein's also got some of his own film projects and scripts on the burner...
A.T.C. concerns the living arrangement of three people-Earl, an alienated poseur; Laurie, a morbid bank teller; and Jake, a banal house painter and eater of grilled cheese. Earl has snuffed someone, so he is at the mercy of a mysterious Mr. White, the landlord who never comes on the stage. Laurie is Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play...
...just that Harvard doesn't know how to handle its employees." "The strike should never have happened," a Harvard official said after it was all over. "It was simply an utter failure in communication." That failure was ostensibly MASCO's, but establishing bureaucratic layers between employer and employee or landlord and tenant hardly seems the best way for Harvard to improve communication...