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With this posthumous volume, S.J. Perelman answers his most famous acolyte. The days of the humorist were lettered, with explosive messages to family, colleagues, editors and amours...
...some 20 books of collected short pieces, Perelman offered a unique amalgam of elegant phrase and pratfall comedy. Behind each one was the carefully drawn self-portrait of a curmudgeon, skewering the pretentious, detonating popular culture and putting backspin on cliches ("Jigwise, all is up"). The role of sulfurous commentator was not a disguise. Don't Tread on Me proves that the life story of Perelman was the adventures of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde. Early on he decided that Will Rogers' statement "I never met a man I didn't like" was "pure flatulence, crowd-pleasing and fake humility...
...week began, corporate raiders seemed to have been cowed by the surge in anti-takeover sentiment. That mood may have helped persuade Revlon Group Chairman Ronald Perelman to give up his hostile $4.1 billion offer to buy Gillette, the razor-blade maker. Probably more important, though, was the ! fast $34 million that Revlon earned by promising to back off. Investors branded the payoff as a clear case of greenmail, since Gillette agreed to buy back Perelman's 13.9% stake in the company at a premium price that was unavailable to other shareholders...
Boesky's name popped up again in the ongoing takeover battle between Gillette, of shaving-blade renown, and Revlon Group, the cosmetics conglomerate. Revlon, headed by Raider Ronald Perelman, offered $4.12 billion for Gillette two weeks ago, just hours before the Boesky case broke. Gillette counterattacked last week with a claim in Boston's Federal District Court that charged Perelman with violating insider-trading laws. Gillette's lawyers issued a blizzard of demands for records from Boesky and a host of other Wall Street investment firms. Perelman called the Gillette accusations "totally without merit and self-serving." He denied that...
...future scholars, Herrmann provides a number of valuable interviews. But her prying litany of misery displays few insights about her subject and little analysis of his unique combination of spontaneity and polish. The famous collection The Most of S.J. Perelman offers a series of works that are far more revealing -- and one title that is unfortunately prescient. "De Gustibus," it says, "Ain't What Dey Used...