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They're not alone: Bravo, A&E, TLC and other channels have real-estate-oriented series, while HBO debuts the real estate satire 12 Miles of Bad Road next year. In FX's drama The Riches--about a con artist who moves to a gated community and passes himself off as a real estate lawyer--the buying and selling of land comes to stand for American dreams, appetites and origins. Creator Dmitry Lipkin says the pilot was shot in an exurb 40 minutes from New Orleans. "Everything around it was swampland," he recalls, "and in the middle...
...Giving Back Bravo to Jeffrey Sachs for his excellent article "Sharing the Wealth" [May 21]. The blatant indifference of world political leaders to coping with a large segment of the world population's poor health, education and sanitation calls for mobilization of the people who could confront these problems. Benevolent foundations and individuals must fund professors of the leading universities to search for solutions. When the wealthy contribute to relieving the misery of the world's poor, they perform a big-hearted act, returning to mankind a part of what they have earned from it. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet...
...Persepolis had its world premiere today at 4 p.m. And at the end of the film, cheers and applause rang through the Palais; the rhythmic clapping that is Cannes' way of saying "bravo" lasted for more than 15 minutes as Marjane Satrapi, the movie's Iranian-born director, was bathed in love and tears. She received hugs and congratulations from Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni (both in the film), and from two proud folks who looked like Satrapi's parents, as the huzzahs continued. The crowd was paying tribute not only to a funny, sometimes dark, always affecting story...
...Boogie, hairstylist and contestant on Bravo's Shear Genius...
...Bravo, Ivy League. Or, for posterity’s sake: c u l8r, txt msgz. da wrld is a beta...