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...protests, but consumers are testy. On Jan. 29, Zhang Liying, a 36-year-old mother of one, shuffled into the supermarket near her apartment outside Shanghai, knocked snow off of her boots and started shopping for dinner. Bundled up against bitter temperatures, she had ridden her scooter to the store and was "frozen now," she said. But when Zhang got to the vegetable section, you could practically see the steam coming from her ears. Half a kilo of greens now cost 1.09 renminbi (about 15?). "Before the snow, a week ago, it was only 0.59 renminbi!" she said...
...laugh about. But what she craved was a little levity. "There was nothing out there that really made people laugh at themselves and laugh at breakups," she says. "I thought, Wouldn't it be great to create a business that does this?" Last September she started an online store dedicated to lightening the mood -- smashingkatie.com named after "the other woman." By the holidays, the site was flooded with orders...
...York. "Also an unbearably bad run of luck." Lubetkin had missed out on several TV opportunities, including a heartbreaking mishap with The Tonight Show. After he had been booked to make his first appearance on Carson's show, Lubetkin was cutting up onstage late one night at the Comedy Store when a Tonight producer happened to be in the audience. The producer didn't like what he saw, and Lubetkin's guest spot was canceled...
...strike worsened his relations with Mitzi. While it was underway, Lubetkin was scheduled to work a five-night engagement at the La Jolla Comedy Store (which was not affected by the strike), but he showed up late on opening night and Mitzi canceled the gig. Lubetkin said his car broke down; Mitzi was upset because he had stopped off first at the Sunset club to walk the picket line. But after his death, she angrily denied any implication that she bore some responsibility. "I was very close with Steve Lubetkin," she says. "I loved him. He was my best friend...
...Comedy Store strike, with its tragic coda, was a turning point for stand-up comedy in the 1970s. In later years, the L.A. comics romanticized it as the end to an age of innocence, the dividing line between an era of happy camaraderie and a more complicated one of competing factions and big business. But it had a more important, if less obvious, impact around the country. Pictures on the evening news of stand-up comedians walking the picket line in L.A., and the news of their victory in the strike, raised the profile of a profession that was growing...