Word: deadwood
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...Western set in 1876 with the downer title Deadwood may not sound like a promising addition to HBO's spring 2004 lineup. But it has gold diggers, prostitutes, gunslingers and criminals and is being created by David Milch of NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. Plus, Milch deadpans, "it's in color...
...abused himself with pills and booze for most of his adult life. He nearly died in 1981 from a ruptured stomach. He shot his bass player Butch Owens in the chest - accidentally, it is said; Owens survived. But Lewis's family tree is full of untimely deadwood. His elder brother Elmo was run over by a truck when JLL was three. His eldest son Jerry Lee, Jr., died at 19; car crash. Steve Allen Lewis, his son by Myra, died at 5 in a swimming pool. His fourth wife, Jaren Pate, also died in a swimming pool...
...government is letting more companies fall under foreign control, including top financial institutions like Shinsei Bank and consumer-electronics maker Denon. U.S. firms have surpassed mighty Nomura Securities in domestic stock underwriting and merger advice. Corporate bankruptcies are more frequent, as are takeovers--sorely needed to clear away deadwood and reinvigorate competition...
...wayside, including his imprisoned predecessor Anwar Ibrahim. And now, with the Prime Minister apparently renewing contacts with perennial contender Razaleigh Hamzah, the last thing Abdullah needs is to get caught in the middle of a political earthquake. "Mahathir had better make sure that while he's trimming the deadwood he doesn't saw off the branch he's sitting on," says a political analyst in Kuala Lumpur. But, then, Mahathir is the great survivor of Malaysian politics...
This week CBS takes the battle to the biggest target of all. ER is America's reigning No. 1 series, but partly by default: it has had little competition for years, except weak newsmagazines. And lately it has become prime-time's biggest, albeit best-loved, piece of deadwood, relying on stunt casting, gunshots in the corridors, tearjerking storylines and ever-more-Job-like afflictions for its long-suffering staff. With Anthony Edwards announcing his departure in 2002, the writers have more than a year to slowly and mawkishly kill his Dr. Mark Greene with that brain tumor...