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...panned out. He was too busy living his autobiography to write it. For this reason he entered modern folklore through the eyes of others, his adventures fictionalized or romanticized. By the time he appears in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as the bus driver for Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, he is an aging parody of himself. Carolyn Cassady does not allow this to happen in her book. Even when she is describing her former husband at his most impossible, she never totally forgets the possibilities of his youth. Others obviously felt the same...
...fact is that Silverado collected $3 million from Ken Good in 1986. Three years later, they couldn't get a dime from him. So they were $3 million better off as a bottom line. These guys at Silverado knew a lot more about Ken Good than...
...What is your response to charges that you should have abstained from voting on the request for a $900,000 line of credit for Ken Good...
Word of lang's message is causing indigestion in the beef belt. Some radio stations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska have struck her songs from their playlists. "This is agriculture country," says Ken Kujawa, program director at KRES-FM in Moberly, Mo. "We don't care if k.d. lang is a vegetarian, but when she says 'Meat stinks,' that hurts everyone who lives in this area." Other singing vegetarians, notably Paul McCartney, have spoken out in lang's defense...
Theirs is a terrific comic duet, and writer Ken Friedman has backed them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...