Booster Shots
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May 15, 2010
Books
Book reviews: ‘Yossarian Slept Here’ and ‘Just One Catch’
Aug. 21, 2011
Speed Vogel, who turned his friendship with novelist Joseph Heller into a bestselling memoir, “No Laughing Matter,” died April 14 of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
April 22, 2008
Business
While multibillion-dollar leveraged buyouts and other massive takeovers made headlines in the 1980s and, often enough, huge profits for those who engineered the deals, Heller Financial Inc. stuck with smaller deals of under $200 million.
Jan. 22, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
Seymour Heller, a personal manager for leading entertainment industry figures--most notably the flamboyant pianist and showman Liberace--has died.
Oct. 15, 2001
Any author who coined a word that embodies the existential dilemma of our world, who wrote a first novel that changed the way we regard one of our most hallowed national experiences and who anticipated and shaped the counterculture with his absurdist and iconoclastic sense of humor has surely earned the right to reminisce about his life and work.
Feb. 22, 1998
Autumn is not expected to be this pleasant--neither the autumn of the year, nor the autumn of life.
Dec. 20, 1994
Music
As one of the main behind-the-scenes players in the rise of Ruthless Records and its banner act, N.W.A, music executive Jerry Heller has remained notably mum about his portrayal in the rap group’s recent biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.”
Aug. 27, 2015
California
Prosecutors launched a full-scale review Friday of the shooting death of Robert Allen Heller, the first fugitive killed by Orange County marshal’s personnel in the agency’s 30-year history.
April 10, 1999
Enter, if you will, into a bygone era of fashion, a time of bonnets and bloomers, bustles and bosom amplifiers.
Sept. 22, 1990