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...million, and the total could eventually top $1 billion; a third of that will go to Cosby himself. Meanwhile a Cosby Show spinoff, A Different World (starring Lisa Bonet as Cosby's TV daughter Denise, now off at college), debuts this week on NBC. With the coveted time slot following Cosby on Thursday nights, it could easily be another huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He has a hot TV series, a new book - and a booming comedy empire | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...from an Ames, Iowa, bank. Since then, Akin has added eight launderettes of his own and sold 56 Duds 'N Suds franchises in 27 states. The entertainment features are left to the tastes of the franchisees. Several Duds 'N Suds outlets show movies, and the three in Nevada have slot machines, naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franchising Fever | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...passion, and he became convinced that "clubs really weren't designed to take full advantage of the principles of physics." In 1975 Duclos took a leave from his job and began to experiment with club improvements in his home workshop. He first invented a putter with a slot and a white line in the center that helped golfers position their eyes directly above the ball. To finance the manufacture of this "slotline" club, Duclos ^ took out a $30,000 second mortgage on his home. His initial designs did not catch on, and the early years were lean. Unwilling to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Become Arnold Palmer | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...rainy; after singing every goodbye song he could think of, after taking out a pocket handkerchief and wiping a tear, or perhaps only a drop of perspiration, from the sweet, lined face of Guitarist Chet Atkins, and after running a lordly half hour beyond the close of his time slot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Leaving Lake Wobegon Garrison | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...here; renovation of the World Theater had been completed. A brave man named Noah Adams, lately of the public-radio news show All Things Considered, sat in an office at Minnesota Public Radio most days, brooding about how to start his own musical variety show in the APHC time slot. Local tryouts will begin in the fall, and national broadcasts will start in January. But that was Adams' problem; Keillor had no advice to give. He was drawn to the Eastern part of the U.S., he said. In the meantime Denmark, where he was "just another bozo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Leaving Lake Wobegon Garrison | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

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