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Dvide and remain unconquered. ITT Corp.'s twist on a classic strategy is sure to repel Hilton Corp., which made a $6.5 billion offer for the owner of Sheraton hotels and Caesar's casinos earlier this year. For the second time in two years, ITT is slicing itself into three separate, publicly traded companies. The parts will be ITT Destinations, a hospitality and gaming company; ITT Corp., publisher of overseas Yellow Pages directories; and ITT Educational Services, a group of technical schools...
...Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...
...earth is to be "recycled"? A UFO is hiding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet? Human bodies are nothing but "containers"? In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare showed he understood this thinking: "But men may construe things, after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves." GARY GARSHFIELD Irvine, California...
...series certainly has no shortage of rerun fodder for such a venture. During its decade on-air, Biography has produced more than 480 episodes, looking at subjects from Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar to Howard Stern and Judy Garland. Each hour (occasional specials air at two hours) moves along economically, dwelling on no single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look...
...Julius Caesar had good reason to beware the day he was assassinated in 44 B.C. But despite the oft repeated admonition for the rest of us, history records no special reason to lie low on March 15. In fact, some pretty darn good things have happened on the fateful day. (See the birth of Fabio, 3/15/61.) So as the Ides of March approaches, take a backward glance, seize fate and go forth...