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TIME There has been some evidence of a housing bust in Las Vegas. Will the trouble spread...
...Boom or Bust...
...bubble. Take a moment and make it a good one. In the meantime, here's the caption: Sopranos stars JAMES GANDOLFINI and Tony Sirico mixed and mingled with troops as part of a U.S.O. tour. After a stop at Camp Doha, Kuwait, where Gandolfini posed with a Saddam Hussein bust, the TV mobsters headed to Iraq. The duo even donned fatigues. The gunning, however, they left to the professionals--as far as we know...
Drugstore.com is the only online health-products retailer to survive the dotcom bust. It has, alas, never posted a profit--and in September announced it would miss third-quarter sales and profit forecasts. Enter Lepore, 50, as new chairwoman and CEO. Lepore knows plenty about the Web's peril and potential: she was chief information officer and then vice chairwoman of online broker Charles Schwab, which flew high in the 1990s but suffered when the stock market sank. She is predictably optimistic about her new company, which has seen sales grow from $110 million in 2000 to an estimated...
...edging it toward a slippery slope--quite literally when she takes a skiing vacation with Darcy, and more figuratively when Grant's Daniel Cleaver puts his absurdly smooth and hilariously transparent moves on her. Later she finds herself in jail in Thailand, the innocent victim of a drug bust. The logic of this plotting may be--well, is--a little shaky, but who cares? Just as we are prepared to forgive Bridget the woman, so we forgive Bridget the movie its obvious flaws because of its equally inescapable charm. --By Richard Schickel