Word: bron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WITH APOLOGIES TO THE LATE DR. SEUSS, who surely would have been wise enough to steer clear of this whole affair: "The time has come/ The time is now/ Just go, Go, GO!/ I don't care how/ You can go by foot/ Or by Bron-co/ O.J. Simpson, will you please...
starring Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron and Liam Cunningham...
...illustrate the oh-so-charming platitude that "All girls are really princesses." We follow Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews), the daughter of a rich British officer, Captain Crewe (Liam Cunningham), as she leaves India for boarding school in New York. At first the school's headmistress, Miss Minchin (Eleanor Bron) spares no expense to put Sara at ease, knowing she'll reap the rewards from Sara's rich father. But when Captain Crewe is reported missing in action and his property is confiscated by the British government, Miss Minchin morphs into Cruella DeVille, complete with a streak of white...
...fraud. One was the EuroTrym Diet Patch, an adhesive disk that attached to the skin and was supposed to curb the appetite. (It didn't.) The producer was slapped with a $1.5 million fine for making false claims for the device, as well as for two other products, Y-Bron, an impotence remedy, and Foliplexx, a treatment for baldness. At least six more infomercials are currently under investigation. "People are mesmerized by TV," says Barry Cutler, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "They wouldn't give this stuff a second thought if they...