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...Algonquin; 345 pages...
...center of a circle of bright, successful friends -- a post- Beatles hipster Algonquin Table that cellularly convenes to muse and amuse. She survives the mottled curse of fame by fostering deep, intimate friendships. Her coterie ranges from her ex's 18-year-old son to a 71-year-old psychiatrist and includes director Penny Marshall, comic philosopher Albert Brooks, actor Richard Dreyfuss, musicians Don Henley and J.D. Souther, and many more...
When judges and prosecutors decide that they must bow out of a case, they "recuse themselves." (The phrase cannot be uttered without conjuring up the ghost of Algonquin J. Calhoun, the lawyer in Amos 'n' Andy.) Judges recuse themselves because of conflict of interest. Perhaps all of us ought to be able to recuse ourselves from subjects in which we have no interest whatever...
They own Los Angeles' Arco Plaza. In New York City they have scooped up the Exxon Building, the Algonquin Hotel and the vaultlike home of Tiffany & Co. They are beating the U.S. at everything from VCRs to semiconductors. And now they are trying to buy U.S. colleges...
...YEAR LUNCH (PBS, Aug. 15, 9 p.m. on most stations). Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and the other literary legends who traded bons mots around the Algonquin Round Table are fondly recalled in this Academy Award-winning documentary...