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...Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled less than flat Champagne. Yet Bronfman stubbornly stuck to his show-biz guns. He shelled out $10.4 billion for Polygram music in 1998, making his family's 76-year-old liquor business look like a sidelight. Bronfman has since been shopping his empire to the usual mogul suspects: Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone and News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, among others...
Other purported memory potions include such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDS) as Advil and Motrin, which in one study appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease as much as 50% over a 15-year period. Lecithin, vitamin B12 and folic acid also generate buzz in the memory biz, but again there is little or no in-the-lab science to back up the claimed benefits. "There just aren't any good data that we know of," says Buckholtz...
...noirish anthology is surprisingly slick in look and earnest in tone. It sometimes earns a good satiric laugh, but mostly it's dead serious, more so than the corny dialogue ("A lot of dirty little things get whispered in the night") and predictable plots deserve. As for making show biz scary, isn't that why we have The E! True Hollywood Story...
...Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) was a phenom for many reasons: it had America buzzing, and it took a piece out of ABC's hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. But, above all, it showed that the generation gap is alive and well, in society and in the TV biz...
NONE OF YOUR E-BIZ How much do the dotcoms know about you? How much should they know? Last week Congress opened hearings on an FTC proposal that would put limits on when and how e-commerce websites can collect information about their customers-- where they're logging on from, for example--and what the sites can do with such data. Right now there aren't any limits at all, and the FTC is concerned that Internet stores are abusing consumers' trust. Needless to say, the e-tailers aren't buying. They say the industry can police itself, and regulations...