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...With "Family," "Sanford" and "Maude" going for them, Yorkin and Lear have emerged in a big way from the twilight of anonymity behind the scenes in TV. Johnny Carson was barely exaggerating when he introduced this year's Emmy, Award ceremonies as "an evening with Norman Lear." After Lear had collected one of the seven Emmys won by "Family," Carson quipped: "I understand Norman has just sold his acceptance speech as a new series...
...early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed this as revisionist clown history. The embarrassed International Clown Hall of Fame even took down Harmon's plaque for a Lifetime of Laughter Achievement Award when it learned of the deception. Harmon, 76, sidesteps questions about Bozo's origins, but he still owns the rights and says he's eager to repackage the character for future TV, movie and theme-park deals. "Bozo never lost his fun or innocence," says Harmon. "Anything that good doesn...
...Brokers forgot the rules," says lawyer Darren Blum, who won a $98,000 award last year after arguing that a broker failed to make suitable recommendations based on his client's assets and investment experience. The client, a 73-year-old bookkeeper in Hollywood, Fla., agreed to put nearly $200,000--or roughly 80% of his liquid net worth--into a stock he'd never heard of, Sigma Design. "I was buying like crazy on margin," says the bamboozled bookkeeper. "And I got wiped...
Arbitration can cost a bundle in nonrefundable fees and takes an average of 12 1/2 months from beginning to end. And victory can be Pyrrhic. According to a government study, only a fifth of the $161 million awarded to customers was paid out in 1998, in part because investors were stuck dealing with paperwork while their dishonest brokers skipped town or filed for bankruptcy. Although NASD is doing a better job of tracking award payments, the agency can't force defunct brokers to cough up anything. Starting this month, however, investors in such cases will be allowed to bypass...
...world of American historians, Thomas Jefferson is considered a tad overexposed. That's why Joseph Ellis' 1997 National Book Award- winning American Sphinx was such a coup. Here was the familiar Jefferson--egalitarian aristocrat, slaveholding author of the Declaration of Independence, globetrotting homebody--plumbed one step further. Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they didn't jibe with reality, and later on keeping his contradictions alive with an "internal ability to generate multiple versions of the truth...