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Bloomberg Businessweek makes cameo on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

An item on Bloomberg Businessweek’s site notes, “There we are with Stephen M. Pollan on the cover. It’s not an actual cover of the magazine, but Pollan is real: He’s a financial consultant and author. He’s also the father of Tracy Pollan, who is married to Michael J. Fox.

“In last night’s episode, Curb star Larry David is battling with his upstairs neighbor, Fox. He goes to apologize to Fox and while waiting for him, Larry picks up a copy of Bloomberg Businessweek and starts drawing a Hitler mustache on the cover photo of Pollan. Fox tells Larry that’s his father-in-law. Larry tries to explain: ‘I just like to see what people look like with Hitler mustaches.’

“It was more of a thrill for the real Stephen M. Pollan to be on Curb than on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. A prolific writer, he has written for more than 30 magazines in his long career—many of them cover stories. (Although Pollen has never been the subject of a Bloomberg Businessweek cover, his Die Broke did make our list of best selling business books in the late 1998.)”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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