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'Office' plotlines reflect recession anxieties

Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper company at the center of NBC's prime-time comedy "The Office," is facing bankruptcy. Staffers in the Scranton branch are anxious about their fate.

Two-time Emmy Award winner Bea Arthur dead at 86

Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television's "Maude" and the sardonic Dorothy on "The Golden Girls," has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday.

Long line of Jewish comedians ahead of Seinfeld

Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.

Fortune: A new spin on classic records

It should come as no surprise that a company backed by Norman Lear knows how to make creative use of television. Lear, the TV superproducer who created "All in the Family," "One Day at a Time," and other hit shows, is one of the owners of Concord Music Group.

Fortune: LEADERSHIP: BEYOND THE OBVIOUS A best-selling USC professor picks some unusual role models to demonstrate what it takes to motiv

With all the books on the subject, most readers can cite by rote the basic traits that make a leader -- vision, integrity, willingness to accept risk. Warren Bennis has taken up the challenge of ge...

Fortune: Social responsibility in the retail furniture business, new hope for studious students, and other matters. WORRYING ABOUT WARREN

We have two little cavils about the Business Enterprise Trust, launched late in May by a dozen and a half thinkers about business, many of them actual practitioners. The group includes Warren Buffe...

Fortune: A NEW MAGAZINE'S MERCURIAL MIDWIFE FRANCES LEAR b. JULY 14, 1923

IN 1985, Frances Lear walked away from her 28-year marriage to television producer Norman Lear. Norman ended up with a younger woman and Frances with a divorce settlement worth $112 million and a g...

Fortune: WINNING ONE FROM THE GIPPER TV producer Norman Lear brought you Archie Bunker, Maude, and the defeat of Robert Bork in the Senat

FOR BETTER or for worse, the Senate Judiciary Committee's stunning rejection of Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee, Federal Judge Robert Bork, was partly a Norman Lear production. Conservatives ...

Fortune: FORTUNE Magazine contents page NOVEMBER 9, 1987 VOL. 116, NO. 11

MANAGING/Cover Story

Fortune: Leer campaign

The February 1988 rollout of her new magazine, Lear's, is fast approaching, and Frances Lear, 64, the former wife of producer Norman Lear (see Politics & Policy), reckons that the first issue will ...

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