Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sinatra filed a $2 million lawsuit in 1983 against Kelley, author of the tattletale biography Jackie Oh!, even before she had begun writing this book. His claim was unceremoniously dropped after a year of blustering, but it is no wonder that he tried to discourage Kelley; his life does not bear outside examination. "There's a monster in him who wants to screw the world before it screws him," said a onetime girlfriend, Actress Jacqueline Park. Kelley's exhaustively researched account supports this assessment dead...
...Steel a list of possible new names for the steel conglomerate, including USX, Maxus and Amcor. USX was chosen before the manufacturer discovered that the name had already been adopted by USX Telecenters, a California-based distributor of telephone systems, which subsequently filed a $50 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against the steel company. After Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth in July 1985, Lippincott & Margulies, a New York City-based firm, came up with the name Enteron. As it happened, enteron is another word for the human digestive system. Randal Blauvelt, a spokesman for the new company, recalls that...
...campaign orchestrated by North Carolina's Helms urging grass-roots conservatives to buy stock in order to "become Dan Rather's boss" was mostly a nuisance. But then came a play by Arbitrager Ivan Boesky, who took an 8.7% position in CBS stock until warded off with a lawsuit. Finally, in April 1985, Atlanta Cable-TV King Ted Turner launched his own $5.4 billion bid to take over the network. Turner may not have had the resources to do the job, but his noisy, four-month assault had to be taken seriously...
...sensation. In PEOPLE magazine excerpts last week and this, % Kelley portrays Ol' Blue Eyes as a score-keeping Lothario whose list of discarded leading ladies includes Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Victoria Principal and Natalie Wood. Sinatra, who tried unsuccessfully to stop the book with a $2 million lawsuit three years ago, is declining comment on what his publicist dismisses as "regurgitated material." Instead, he was back doing it his way last week, at the opening of the renovated Chicago Theater, where he got an ovation for his finger-snapping rendition of My Kind of Town. Says Kelley...
...also in an era when self-censorship comes not only because of lawsuit problems but because there is going to be a letter writing campaign, picketing, a different climate of public opinion," said Ellen P. Goodman '63, a columnist for The Boston Globe...