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...make no mistake, say his friends: Edgar Jr. would love to climb back into the mogul role. He has always loved Hollywood. The grandson of Seagram founder and former bootlegger Samuel Bronfman, Edgar Jr. began his career writing songs performed by Dionne Warwick and Ashford and Simpson and producing small movies. Pulled into the family business in 1982 by his father and made CEO in 1994, he scored wins by pushing premium brands like Chivas Regal and Absolut, and buying and selling Tropicana for a juicy profit. But Hollywood continued to beckon. He dumped the company's safe, lucrative stake...
...reason the show is just about the cutest thing to hit Broadway since Annie's dimples, with perkily retro songs by Jeanine Tesori and clever staging by director Michael Mayer, who has removed some of the silliness from the rather bizarre 1967 movie. All that and choreographer Rob Ashford's well-drilled corps of tapping chorus girls and guys. Look closely; there might be a star in there. --By Richard Zoglin
...fatal obstruction. Last October, British traveler Emma Christofferson, 28, died shortly after flying home from Australia. Last month, a woman in her late 40s suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism during an 11-hour flight between Johannesburg and London. John Belstead, an accident and emergency consultant at Britain's Ashford Hospital, which receives emergency cases from Heathrow Airport, estimates that the condition affects as many as 2,000 travelers in the U.K. each year, and that 15 of those die from DVT developed on long-haul flights. A survey of passenger accidents at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport revealed that from...
...proving his point in Ashford, a thriving, small city some 35 miles south of London. In March, BAA McArthurGlen opened a mall there, and it is drawing 60,000 shoppers a week seeking everything from leisurewear to luggage at bargain rates. Ashford's downtown retailers were nervous at first, admits Jo James, manager of the local Chamber of Commerce. But so far, losses to traditional retailers have been "minimal, on the whole around 1%." Moreover, James explains, the mall draws mostly shoppers from outside the region who wouldn't normally shop in Ashford...
...addition to Susie, Dr. Ashford (Diane Kagan), Dr. Bearing's old college literature professor, makes a poignant appearance at the deathbed of her old pupil in doubtlessly the most inspired moment of Wit. Kagan performs admirably as a soothing, serene presence in the life of a woman deep in physical pain and admittedly afraid of dying. She comforts Vivian as well as the audience, now taken by the increasingly realistic scenario that Dr. Bearing confronts...