Word: burnette
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...thing to host a TV special filled with outtakes from your old CBS comedy series and knock 'em dead in the ratings. It's quite another to try a new career as a playwright. But that's what Carol Burnett has done. She and daughter Carrie Hamilton (who died of lung cancer in January) collaborated on Hollywood Arms, a play based on Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Hamilton worked nearly till the end; she was viewing actors' audition tapes until just weeks before her death. But Mom had to finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week...
This spring in the famously youth-obsessed TV business, Botox is out and wrinkles are in. The reason: during last November's sweeps, the networks' triannual efforts to impress advertisers--a Carol Burnett reunion on CBS surprised everyone (not least of all CBS) by drawing 30 million people to watch a reel of bloopers. Now, virtually every TV icon with an AARP card and a pulse has been pressed into service...
...industry explanation for Burnett's surprise hit in November was a yearning for comfort culture after the Sept. 11 attacks, so this May is as much a test of Osama bin Laden's continuing legacy as Cosby's. "It's probably an oversimplification," says Zucker, "but the country seems to want to look back at an easier, simpler time." At least it did then, when U.S. planes were pounding Afghanistan and Americans were opening their utility bills with latex gloves. Now it may be the networks who are hankering for an easier, simpler time. Sept. 11 caused a brief return...
...crack the Hong Kong market in the 1990s. Hong Kong consumers seemed to prefer familiar neighborhood chain stores. Carrefour lost $400 million between 1996 and 2000 on four Hong Kong outlets. "It all ended in tears, really," says Alan Treadgold, director of retail research for ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide in Sydney. "They just couldn't make the format work...
DIED. CARRIE HAMILTON, 38, actress, musician and daughter of Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton whose three-year adolescent descent into drugs made national headlines and prompted a family antidrug crusade; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A play she wrote with her mother, Hollywood Arms, will open at Chicago's Goodman Theater in April...