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...progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some 6,000 titles...
...though at times his character's ineffectual nature seems a bit forced. Paredes is exuberent as the effervescent Virginia, though unfortunately her energy sometimes overwhelms her sense of timing and delivery. Liz Amberg and Rosalie Parker are memorable as the ill, subsequently dead Grandmother Mallard and the sexually charged, Coke-guzzling Romanian receptionist. Brett Conner deserves special mention for his hilarious performance eked out of a small role as the hick accompanying SuzyBelle to her cotillion...
...Coca-Cola was the most popular television ad campaign in 1994, according to a survey of 20,000 TV viewers. The bears, also a popular stuffed toy last Christmas, were the brainchild of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency, the top talent shop that took a piece of the Coke business from longtime agency McCann-Erickson...
Traditional Indian musical instruments, including the harmonium and the tabla, were accompanied by Western keyboards and violins. Fried samosas were sold next to cans of Diet Coke at intermission. And the show itself, which began with classical South Indian dance, ended with a techno take on a Punjabi folk dance...
...story of businessman Q, as reconstructed from police and court records, traces a prodigious feat of colonization and franchising. In Los Angeles, Q and his cohorts made their basic profits from cocaine bought at cross-border prices--typically about $15,000 a kilo. They cut the coke and ratcheted up the price as they resold supplies in outlying markets. Then with expansion came branches and outposts beyond the bounds of Los Angeles, as well as franchise-like agreements with local, allegedly gang-connected distributors. Says Sergeant Steve Spanard of the Denver Police antigang unit: ``We never had Eight Treys...