Word: lasser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success: his first divorce. Harlene later sued him for defamation of character, citing his repeated insults on the Tonight Show. ("The Museum of Natural History took her shoe and, based on her measurement, they reconstructed a dinosaur.") In 1966 Allen was married again, this time to Actress Louise Lasser, daughter of S. Jay Lasser, the tax expert. Woody could have used a little of his father-in-law's advice: his income was around $250,000 a year...
...wrote and starred in a Broadway hit play about a recently divorced nebbish with an acute inability to score. The show, not surprisingly, coincided with the breakup of his marriage to Louise Lasser. Play It Again. Sam-even brighter in the film than onstage-features the visible shade of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, plus several unseen ghosts. "I never had a teacher who made the least impression on me," Woody says. "If you ask me who are my heroes, the answer is simple and truthful: George S. Kaufman and the Marx Brothers." In Play It Again, Sam, they...
Farewell Angel. For one thing, says Bernard Greisman, a Manhattan tax lawyer who edits the annual J.K. Lasser guide, Your Income Tax, "the play has been taken out of holding on to a hot stock." Under the old rules, the tax differential between long-and short-term gains encouraged investors to keep their stocks for at least six months. Greisman believes that the new rules may result in a more volatile stock market, with many more "in and out" deals...
...Among companies that volunteered advisers: TIME-LIFE, Newsweek, Psychology Today, New York, CBS, Young & Rubicam, J.K. Lasser Tax Institute, Cowles Communications, McCann-Erickson and Lorillard Corp...