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...Then United's executives, feeling pretty chipper themselves, decided they could handle more work, so United and US Airways, the nation's sixth largest carrier, announced plans to merge by Aug. 1, 2001 for a cool $4.3 billion. Conventional thinking in the industry thought the deal - which is essentially the better-run Untied gobbling up the poorly-run US Airways - would cruise through and United would be in position to dominate the world (or at least the U.S.) by the time summer vacation plans were being made...
THURSDAY THE U.S.S. INTREPID Creepiest thing I've seen all week: someone in a Lisa Simpson costume shaking her booty to Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me, just a little too sexily for a 10-year-old, while inviting the weary suits on the aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over...
...budget--$140 million, not counting the premiere last week on an aircraft carrier in Hawaii--is the biggest in human history. Its length--three hours--is properly epic. Its central sequence--the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor--is an excellent orchestration of today's best and brightest special effects. The net result of this mighty effort is perhaps predictable: near total inconsequence...
...held the final presentation, on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, docked on Manhattan's west side, under a tent big enough to house several fields for a sport that requires a lot of space. Maybe there was a "Boot Camp" connection, but I was just creeped out, not least by the black-shirted Fox staff poised military-style around the perimeter of the room, trying to artificially induce whooping throughout the presentation...
...entertainment economy sails on, an aircraft carrier floating on a sea of vodka tonics...