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...ruins. After a New York dealer launched a suit against him, Straw suddenly filed for both personal and corporate bankruptcy. Against $1.7 million in assets, he listed a staggering $16.2 million in debts. He left at least 97 stunned creditors. Among them: the Petersen Galleries of Beverly Hills, whose claim of a $7 million loss was the single largest; art dealers in places as far-flung as San Francisco, Cincinnati and Signal Mountain, Tenn.; the Internal Revenue Service and Western Union Telegraph Co. Straw allegedly sold paintings that he did not own -and some that did not even exist...
...revolutionary fervor and the stifling controls necessary to transform a society would both in time run up against the traditions of his people, whom he both loved and hated. The country that had invented the civil service would turn the Communist bureaucracy into a new mandarin class. The nation whose institutions had been shaped by Confucius into instruments for instilling universal ethics would before long absorb and transform the materialist Western philosophy imposed on it by its latest dynasty...
With a first-year promotion budget of $5.4 million and a staff of 121, he launched Now!, a slick weekly whose first issue was light on news, heavy on shopworn features and groaning with ads (60 pages out of 144). The initial press run of 416,000 copies was quickly claimed a sellout, but some London journalists, while wishing it well, were saying Now! should more accurately be called Then! Aside from a scoop about Iraqi spying, the only effort at hard news was a watery recap of the Rhodesian peace talks. Judged the Financial Times: "Newsmagazine is precisely what...
...that Charles is so hooked on ratiocination because he is so bad at acting. On the funny side of 50, Charles is the kind of thespian whose career has been confined to small parts in the big time and big parts in the small time. When he needs a disguise, Charles usually borrows a look or an accent from one of his flops, and Brett wickedly runs in a quote from one of his provincial reviews ("Had I not known it to be a good play, this production would not have convinced me of its merit"). Charles' personal life...
...Bobby Van and Bernadette Peters, who were not born when Good News opened, summon up the sentimental performing style of the '20s so well that their rendition of The Best Things in Life Are Free is surprisingly touching. There is also an unexpectedly fine turn from John Davidson, whose Vegas slickness dissipates when he leads the chorus in Oklahoma! Only Carol Burnett and Sandy Duncan disappoint: their broad delivery blunts the wit and anger of two Sondheim songs from Company...