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To: Ruffian who wrote (95689)	3/13/2001 11:07:52 PM
From: Ibexx	Respond to of 152472

It's good to have Jacobs and Thornley educate the "unwashed" <g> Wall Street trader. The complexity of Q's technology and business model - seemingly in a perennial state of flux - are probably too much for them to comprehend, let alone keep up. Periodic briefings such as this could go a long way in diffusing G camp's FUD efforts. Ibexx

To: Ruffian who wrote (95689)	3/14/2001 12:06:01 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

AP News obituary -- Morton Downey Jr. Dies at Age 67 March 13, 2001 Morton Downey Jr., Combative Talk-Show Host, Dies at Age 67 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:05 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Morton Downey Jr., the abrasive, chain-smoking talk show host whose reign over ``trash TV'' in the 1980s opened the way for the likes of Jerry Springer, has died at 68. Downey died Monday of pneumonia in his remaining lung, his doctor said. Downey, who smoked for 53 years, had lost his other lung to cancer. ``The Morton Downey Jr. Show'' made its debut in the New York area in 1987 and became a hit almost immediately. It was syndicated nationally the following year, and it wasn't long before critics were bemoaning the end of civil discourse in America. Downey would go nose-to-nose with his guests, spittle and insults flying. He deliberately blew cigarette smoke in their faces, and his outbursts sometimes provoked shrieking arguments. One show erupted into a fistfight between civil rights advocates Al Sharpton and Roy Innis. Known as ``Mort the Mouth,'' the snarling Downey insulted his sometimes bizarre guests as ``slime'' or ``scumbucket'' and argued with members of his studio audience, dismissing liberals in particular as ``pablum pukers.'' ``If not for him, we wouldn't have trash television,'' said Mark Schwed, a TV Guide critic who wrote about Downey's program. ``As much as people thought he was a complete jerk, he was a really nice guy, soft-spoken and thoughtful. ``But that wasn't his job. His job was to scream at people.'' ``Do you applaud him?'' Schwed asked. ``In a way -- yes. Not everybody deserves to be talked to nicely. It was the end of polite discourse.'' Downey grew up in privilege, attending military school and earning marketing and law degrees. He was the son of popular singer Morton Downey and his dancer-wife, Barbara Bennett. The younger Downey appeared in such TV shows and movies as ``Tales from the Crypt,'' ``Meet Wally Sparks,'' ``Revenge of the Nerds III,'' ``Predator II'' and the new ``Rockford Files.'' He was also a songwriter, with credits that included ``My Last Day on Earth,'' ``Lonely Man,'' ``Now I Lay Me Down to Cry'' and ``The Loud Mouth Theme Song,'' first performed in 1987. Perhaps the biggest embarrassment of Downey's career came when he claimed neo-Nazi skinheads attacked him in a San Francisco airport restroom in 1989, cutting off his hair and painting a swastika on his head. Authorities could never verify the attack, and Downey's critics called it a publicity stunt. A few months later, the show was canceled. Five years later, Downey launched a new show, ``Downey,'' but it met with less success, and Downey acknowledged he had toned it down. Downey later said he may have taken his belligerence too far. ``It got out of control because the producers ... wanted me to top myself every night,'' he said in the early 1990s. ``If I did something outlandish on Monday night, on Tuesday night, we'd have to think of something even more outlandish.'' Yet he said he was proud of many aspects of the original show, and called it cathartic for working-class Americans fed up with the troubles of the world. ``It isn't the rich people who come up and say, `Oh, Mort, you're just great,''' Downey once said. ``It's the blacks and the ethnics and the blue collars, those guys with too much hair on their shoulder blades. They want some answers.'' Downey once was a board member of the smoking-rights National Smokers Alliance. But after cancer surgery in 1996, he became an anti-smoking crusader, saying he had been ``an idiot'' for smoking so much. Downey is survived by his wife, Lori Krebs, and their daughter. He has three daughters from former marriages. Copyright 2001 The Associated Press