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...stand-up comics who had spent years giving away their jokes for free at Mitzi Shore's Comedy Store, the Norma Rae moment came late one night at Canter's Deli. A few of the Store regulars were lingering in a booth when Jay Leno walked in and cried, "What is this bullshit...
...line had had a long setup. Ever since getting custody of the Comedy Store in 1974, Mitzi Shore had stuck to her policy against paying the comedians who put customers in the seats. In this she was no different from her counterparts in New York, Budd Friedman and Rick Newman. They regarded their establishments not as ordinary nightclubs but as workshops, where comedians could try out new material, hone their acts, and be seen by people in the industry. The comics were getting as much out of the clubs as the clubs were getting out of them; besides, the owners...
...dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little Mitzi in a sweater. (If you are the kind of person who makes your dog wear rain boots, I think you should probably reconsider before he gets wind of this lion story...
Jennings and Mitzi Osborne's Little Rock home won't be as bright this year -- and that's just the way the neighbors want it. The Supreme Court refused the Arkansas couple permission to turn on a massive, 3.2 million-bulb Christmas light display in their yard. Neighbors had sued to shut down the lights, complaining that traffic drawn to the spectacle had made them virtual prisoners in their own homes. The Osbornes had claimed that limiting their display would infringe on their freedom to celebrate the birth of Christ. The Court found nothing in the Osborne's religion mandating...
...were worth just $859,500 apiece, or $8.6 million. The agency also held that 990 shares of nonvoting common stock that Newhouse owned totaled $811.8 million in value. The 3,500 shares of preferred stock owned by other members of the Newhouse family, including his sons and his wife Mitzi, now 78, had little worth, according to the IRS. It contended that the $601 million value that the Newhouse appraisers assigned to the preferred stock amounted to an effort to avoid taxes...