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…ting on his own for comedy shows including The Martha Raye Show, The George Gobel Show, and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. In 1958, Mr. Lear teamed with director Bud Yorkin to form Tandem Productions. Together they produced several feature films, with Mr. Lear taking on roles as...

…(Eventually everyone was thrilled Steven was anointed president of the Cannes Jury for 2013 the day after the awards show. ) The voters knew beloved Ang Lee's three year boat ride was the technical miracle. Fox's $595 million international box office blew in the win. Harvey Wei...

… a plucky American entrepreneur could have been a tough sell to a federal jury in Orange County, California. [http://www.law.com/image/LitDaily/DailyDicta.jpg|]The stakes were high--more than half a billion dollars in damages--and some of the facts were, ahem, challenging. How...

authors with the precision of a Swiss watch. Heather Jackson, your insightful editing and incredible cheer-leading has made this book a pleasure to write. Thank you for believing in me! I am honored to be your writer. To the rest of the Crown team, especially those whom I bother...

…uman rights, led to an offer that presented me with an existential challenge to my dual identity as an American and a Jew. In 2010, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged me to accept the position of Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. He told me that in order to ser...

…f, up to this time, our Universe has never contained a piece of music that was generated non-computationally, it does now. If you listen to this piece, you will find it impossible not to be somewhat inspired by it. You cannot erase the experience from your memory. And once you ha...

…icans Seek to Cripple IRS: The GOP's Moves Will Gut the Tax Agency, Advocates Warn, Politico (Dec. 11, 2014), https:/Avww.politico.com/storv/2014/12/republicans-irs- regulations-1 13484 (quoting a senator's aim to use "the power of the purse" to "push back on the regulatory overr...