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...poking, nose-punching and head-thwapping tradition of Larry, Moe and Curly apparently extends to the Three Stooges' squabbling heirs, whose fortune the Los Angeles courts have been forced to divvy up. Today, a jury awarded more than $2 million to descendants of two of the famed troika (Larry Fine and "Curly Joe'" DeRita). The reason: the grandson and daughter of the Stooge-in-chief, Moe Howard, had stiffed the others on revenues from Stooge-related products. Jean DeRita, Curly Joe's widow, now gets almost $1.6 million, and Fine's grandchildren receive about $500,000. BTW: The next stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWO OUT OF THREE STOOGES AIN'T BAD | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

...candidly envisioned the original Star Trek series as a "Wagon Train to the stars." In his quintessentially '60s view, the final frontier may have been full of hostile Klingons and dangerous Romulans, but they were generally susceptible to a pep talk -- only occasionally augmented by a punch in the nose -- from Captain Kirk. "Everyone always wants me to do space battles," Roddenberry remarked in 1989. "Well, screw them. That's not what Star Trek is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torch Has Passed Off-Camera, Too | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...last 110 years, the Harvard-Yale game has been the embodiment of gentlemanly collegiate competition. Last Saturday, however, a quartet of fun-loving Winthrop residents broke that tradition when they proved that it's all fun and games until someone breaks a nose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Stunts Mar The Game | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...Yale as they defended their flag in a bizarre scuffle in the stands. An associate dean of Yale College was insulted by Ferrell when she tried to force a fumble. Four Yalies tackled left, right and center, took down some of Ferrell's buddies and broke one player's nose. Ignominious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Stunts Mar The Game | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...strokes to a middle- class background, private schools, piano and trumpet lessons. At 13 she modeled for a local hair salon. "I had such beautiful long blond hair," she says. Now her hair is cut short and tinged with purple dye. She wears a small silver ring in her nose, combat boots and a white T shirt on which she has written with a marker a message to the tourists she panhandles: I'd rather hear "no" than nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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