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What's a wife worth, anyway? She's priceless, of course, spiritually. But financially, we still don't know, when it comes to that rare species, the stay-at-home spouse of the corporate tycoon. When nonwealthy couples divorce, the assets are generally divided equally, according to Michael Ostrow, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. But for the wealthy--unless you're in a 50-50 community-property state--when love fades, the wife's value is inversely calculated: the richer the household, the less, proportionally, she gets. One such wife, Lorna Wendt, 53, has decided to fight...
Tunes for tots are hot, thanks largely to a rise in U.S. births, which reached a 24-year high of 4 million in 1989. Record companies "are reading the demographics and realizing that there are going to be a lot more children around," says Leib Ostrow, president of Music for Little People, a seven- year-old California-based company...
...usually watch televised football on Monday night. Some 60% of the audience are men, who traditionally make the car-buying decisions, and many of them are college graduates earning at least $30,000 a year. That educational level and income makes them an adman's dream. Says Joseph Ostrow, executive vice president of Young & Rubicam, the largest U.S. ad agency; "Nothing else gives you as big a concentration of these people." CBS's Dallas has an even bigger audience, 19.2 million households last week, but the majority of the program's viewers are women...
...first show, "American Passion," explores "the way the media victimizes the loneliness of urban kids," Ostrow said Written by two company members, it will use its $91,000 budget entirely an actors' salaries, all but eliminating production costs...
...press conference, where the cost of 13 entertained about 30 visitors with members from "American Passion," Harnes and Bruntelo praised Ostrow's efforts to "concentrate on the work and not any of the persiflage...