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Both of these doting parents are Jewish emigres from central Europe who came to New York City as children in the late 1920s. For years, Lola has been the richest source of her daughter's comic material. "Do you know what my mother said to me on the opening night of Uncommon Women?" Wasserstein asks rhetorically. " 'Wendy, where did you get those shoes?' " When Isn't It Romantic was playing off-Broadway, Wasserstein's parents would stroll over to the theater and canvass the crowd. "My mother would call and say, 'Oh, what well-dressed people,' " Wasserstein recalls...
...money, the intensely private Fort Worth billionaire, 40, stands to benefit hugely from a decade of regulatory laxity. His purchase of American Savings is the pre-eminent episode in a string of controversial bailouts last year in which regulators handed out gilt-edged gratuities to some of America's richest...
That is the egalitarian theme of Vance Packard's latest venture in pop sociology, which is centered on slapdash but often tantalizing interviews with 30 of the nation's richest citizens (average net worth in 1987: $425 million). As the author presents them, these ultrarich tend to be banal in thought and sometimes defiantly plain Jane in tastes. "What's better than meat-loaf?" asks Texas developer Walter W. Caruth Jr., whose wife (despite his $600 million) does all the cooking. Surprisingly few of Packard's subjects try to live up to their imposing annual incomes. Leonard Shoen, the founder...
That is the premise of The Piano Lesson, which opened last week at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. The lesson of the title -- an instruction in morality rather than scales or fingering -- makes the work the richest yet of dramatist August Wilson, whose first three Broadway efforts, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, each won the New York Drama Critics Circle prize as best play of the year. The fact that producers are not shoving each other in haste to bring Piano Lesson to Broadway, especially in a season when the Tony Awards...
...Walton is still the richest man in America, but his fortune may be dented a bit because he missed a court deadline. A state judge in Fort Worth slapped his Wal-Mart Stores chain with an $11.6 million fine because Walton, 70, was 17 days late in delivering a deposition. The chairman's testimony was subpoenaed for a trial in which a customer demanded $6 million after slipping in a Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The tardiness penalty dwarfed the $35,658.30 the jury awarded Andrew Carrizales, a Houston mechanic, for his injuries. The company will appeal Walton...