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...doing the same thing every night bored him. He was unbeatable at drinking and telling stories all night in bars, but they don't pay you for that. Where Jackie Gleason really was the Great One, as he called himself with no undue bashfulness, was as the bus driver Ralph Kramden in his long- rerunning TV show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about...
...semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of World War II veteran Tom Rath, a character who resembles Wilson. Rath goes to work for corporate boss Ralph Hopkins, who in turn is patterned after the late head of Time-Life publishing, Roy E. Larsen...
Also angling for kiddie cash are A Class Act, starring Houseparty's Kid n' Play (June 5), the Ralph Bakshi cartoon fantasy Cool World (July 10), Damon Wayans' Mo' Money (July 17), Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, with Beverly Hills 90210's Luke Perry (July 31) and Love Potion 9 (late August). The adult buried in every child will have to make do with Steve Martin's Housesitter (June...
...share of the action in the New Deal era have atrophied into empty shells: political parties, labor unions and working-class newspapers. Taking their place, Greider provocatively argues, are the cool, rational tools of by-the- numbers policy analysis, the legacy of "the energetic reform movements launched by Ralph Nader and others in the 1960s." Much like the Progressives early in the century, the Naderite reformers distrusted the messiness of mass democracy and placed their faith instead in public-interest litigation and legislation. But in another illustration of the law of unintended consequences, business interests learned how to dominate these...
...Commission, historically sympathetic to management on such issues, that made it easier for shareholders to challenge companies on CEO compensation through the proxy system. Shareholders at 43 companies, including Chrysler, IBM and Eastman Kodak, have submitted proposals seeking to curb executive pay. Next year the number could double. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "What we're witnessing is a full-scale rebellion against corporate greed run amuck...