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...later at Knight's Detroit Free Press. Neuharth joined Gannett in 1963 and was president by 1970, leading some colleagues to snipe that his rise came a little too fast. "When Al wears a sharkskin suit," a friend once observed, "it's hard to tell where the shark stops and he begins...
...that the prime lending rate has reached a level that a Mafia loan shark wouldn't have charged ten years ago, President Carter is trying to fight inflation by forcing the poor to show "restraint" and stop wasting money on luxuries like food, clothing and shelter. It won't work simply because you can't squeeze blood out of a stone...
...actor enjoys being typecast. But how to avoid it when you're a shark? Pity poor Bruce, the mechanical monster who cut his teeth on his first starring role-and various fellow players-four years ago in Jaws. Since then it's been mostly downstream for the studio fish: Jaws II, a bummer; a swim-on in a TV series; contract work in a pool on Universal's back lot eating an ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb...
...entrepreneurial brains are provided by BJ. Farber, a fictional composite of those remarkable immigrants who parlayed dry-goods stores, nickelodeons and theater chains into movie fiefs. They are here too: Goldwyn, Mayer, Zukor, et al. Farber is a lovable old shark. The book's unlovable shark is Hareem Adani, a New York-based conglomerate chief out to add Farber Films to his corporate shell collection...
...Great Shark Hunt, Thompson...