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...Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre's lineage of hard-boiled icons, the baton passed from Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler to Ross Macdonald and finally to Parker, whose mononymous detective, Spenser, long ago entered the pantheon inhabited by Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer. Although Parker's body of work included books featuring other protagonists, it is Spenser who will endure and whose adventures will be read in the next century...
...also faces scrutiny because of her wealth, which is estimated to be more than $1 billion. "There's a history of wealthy Californians trying to start at the top, like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, without having paid their dues," says Lew Uhler, president of the National Tax Limitation Committee, an antitax group, who is supporting one of Whitman's opponents. It takes a vast amount of money to be competitive in California, but the road to Sacramento is littered with the bodies of failed parvenus: Michael Huffington, the former Republican Congressman and ex-husband of Arianna, blew $28 million...
...long time been a troubled business. Content has never been king. The reality is that, wonderful as it is, the value of it doesn't go to the shareholders. Movie moguls need to be smart about how to manage talent. The reason [longtime Universal Studios owner] Lew Wasserman was able to make more money than anyone was that he set the culture of the industry. In his day there was an unspoken understanding of how you did business, a culture of co-operation. Somewhere along the way it became cool to steal talent at a bigger price - it made...
...remember watching Lew Hoad in 1956 in the U.S. Open -he had three legs of the calendar Grand Slam but lost to Ken Rosewall in the final. I was in the stands, and in the back of my head I said to myself, "I want to try that, I want to win the Slam." But it wasn't anything to do with the record books, really. In 1969 [the second year in which Laver won the Slam], what really motivated me was just the thrill of being back at Wimbledon and these other great tournaments...
...talk to Lew at that point at all? He never called me to check on me or see how I was. Never...