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ROSIE O'DONNELL Sans dirt and melodrama, her debut talk-variety show scores with critics, soars in ratings...
...your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel tries to poke a bit of fun at her during her segments on the Today show, she blithely ignores him. If she doesn't take cake decorating seriously, who will? Dominique Browning, editor in chief of the relaunched House & Garden, due to debut this fall, says Martha's dominance derives from the fact that "she's bossy, she knows what's good for us." It's come to pass that the universal zinger for a household shortfall is, "That's not how Martha would...
Stonesifer's sense of what works and what doesn't will be critical if Microsoft is to succeed outside the personal computer industry. And the world won't have long to wait: Michael Kinsley's much anticipated Webzine, Slate, is scheduled to debut June 24, and msnbc Cable, the joint NBC-Microsoft all-news cable channel, is due this fall. If Stonesifer's track record is any gauge, both projects should draw a crowd...
...midsummer night's Tuscan dream called Stealing Beauty, which opens this week. Last week she finished shooting a film with the Irish director Pat O'Connor, who previously made Circle of Friends. And then there's That Thing You Do, well known in Hollywood as Tom Hanks' directorial debut, in which Tyler plays the groupie of a small-town band in the early '60s. This film wrapped earlier this year and will be out in the fall...
Despite its illustrious history, the modern pentathlon faces an uncertain future. Unlike new Olympic sports such as beach volleyball and the triathlon (which will debut in four years), the modern pentathlon has little popular and corporate appeal, especially in the U.S. "This sport is the celebration of an ideal," says top U.S. pentathlete Michael Gostigian, 33. "But we have to package it better." One small step was compressing the competition from four days into one. Hoping to gain a higher profile, the U.S. team named actor Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) to the administrative post of team leader. A few years...