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...Mad Money with Jim Cramer is a raucous investor show that features vertigo-inducing camera movement and the blustery, hyperkinetic Cramer bouncing around the set howling stock-market strategy. He punctuates his advice with a battery of noise effects: "Sell! Sell! Sell!" a voice booms through the studio after Cramer hits one of 15 large red buttons on the set; another one elicits a Hallelujah Chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock-Raving Mad | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

Gimmicky? You bet. But the program, in stark contrast to shows like the staid, departed Wall Street Week, is a clear success. Mad Money has boosted viewership in its 6 p.m. E.T., weekday slot 74%, to 176,000, and is on an upward trajectory. Cramer has the network's highest-rated program in a slot that had been home to its lowest. Pleads program developer Susan Krakower: "Find me another Cramer, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock-Raving Mad | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

...going Hollywood. That failed experiment led to the cancellation of prime-time shows with hosts Dennis Miller, John McEnroe and Tina Brown. The network lost its way, says Bill Cella, CEO of Magna Global, an ad-buying firm. "They need to get back to their roots: solid business programming." Mad Money offers a template, because Cramer is well grounded in business yet just crazy enough to test old boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock-Raving Mad | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

...still bed-ridden when news came through that Japan had surrendered. His sweetheart Marjorie Rushberry, the dark-haired nurse who had looked after him, went into town with girlfriends to celebrate. "But all the soldiers were going mad, grabbing girls and kissing them, so we decided to hotfoot it back to hospital," she says. The Kennas have been married for 58 years, and still live in the red-roofed house that locals in Kenna's home town of Hamilton, in Victoria's western wool district, built for them when he returned in 1946. The pale gums and sheep fields were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Hero | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

...Benjamin just doesn't get it! The terrorists hate the U.S. and the West for everything we represent. What was there about U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s that made them mad enough to take down the World Trade Center towers in 2001? Nothing! Jeff Gump Virginia Beach, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/6/2005 | See Source »

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