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...keep his operation afloat over the years, the often broke adventurer created some 35 different investment schemes, including one drawn up on a cocktail napkin. Last November six shareholders filed suit in a Florida court, charging they did not receive their fair share of the treasure. Still, the plaintiffs could take some consolation from the Christie's sale. A gold chain that belonged to one of them went...
...Citystep directors say they were left unsatisfied. "We did our opening night performance and we went out for dinner. We thought to ourselves, 'There is something wrong with the show.' Then we sat there at [the restaurant] and mapped out the problems we had with the show on a napkin," says Paulus. "A lot of things were not reading, were not coming across like we wanted...
...Cannes Film Festival, Minimogul Menahem Golan sat down with Jean- Luc Godard and, on a table napkin, jotted down a movie contract. Cinema's old enfant terrible (Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary) would write and direct a modern King Lear. Norman Mailer would play the mad monarch, Woody Allen the fool...
...last week, when I had finished more creamsicles than I thought humanly possible during one lunch, I decided it was time to become a public nuisance. Steve had nothing better to do--except to fold and unfold every napkin in the Leverett House Dining Hall--so he decided to accompany...
...relation to Test Pilot Chuck Yeager, who went out of his way to belittle the mission in a quote to U.P.I.: "The Voyager is old technology. It's not a breakthrough.") Voyager began, as have so many fine notions, as a hurried sketch on a paper napkin. Five years ago the three were sitting in a greasy spoon in Mojave, Calif., when Burt Rutan turned to his brother and asked, "How would you like to be the first person to fly around the world without stopping to refuel?" The idea seized the test pilot. Burt dashed off a rudimentary drawing...