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Joan and Melissa Rivers may want to watch their backs. For years, they have owned the coveted mother-daughter spot on the red carpet at awards shows, but next month their pre-eminence will be challenged by two women of somewhat more refined talents. Last week ROSEMARY HARRIS and her daughter JENNIFER EHLE were nominated for Tony awards in the category of Best Actress. Harris, a stage veteran who has won a Tony, was recognized for her role in Waiting in the Wings; Ehle, best known for playing Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
...torched by Persian invaders in A.D. 252. But like the eruption that buried Pompeii two centuries earlier, the fire preserved a trove of mosaics, statuary and villas. Now Zeugma faces destruction again, this time from rising floodwaters of a hydroelectric project. "It is a wall-to-wall carpet of mosaics, richer and more important than Pompeii," laments archaeologist Mehmet Onal. For a brief moment last week, Turkish officials hinted that the ruins might get a temporary reprieve, but those hopes vanished when the contractor announced that each month's delay would add $30 million to the $1 billion project...
Last week, City Manager Robert W. Healy approved more money for roof repairs, furniture, carpet and window replacement, as well as more than $400,000 for technology. Some of this added work will be done next year, but the window and technology upgrades will wait for the following year...
...know, had had a word with her about all of her clothes. And I liked the way her hair changes. You know you get what you pay for with hair and at the beginning, it looks so overworked and overprocessed - it's been permed, bleached, it's like a carpet. I imagined someone taking her to a salon uptown and doing what they call up there, the "Buttery Chunks" style...
...this mini-series proves that over-the-top stories, richly told and lavishly gilded, still have some value, even at Regis' network. If you can get past the kitschy orientalism and the sometimes-tired ideas (A wacky genie! Brilliant!), you'll find this baroque epic an often thrilling carpet ride...