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With the ratio of bad to good Saturday Night Live movies hovering at about 6 to 1, can you blame MIKE MYERS for practicing a little quality control? The comedian claims he tried to delay production of Dieter, a movie based on his fey, monkey-toting German SNL character, because the script, his own, wasn't funny. Not satisfied with that explanation, Universal Pictures last week sued Myers for $5 million, claiming that he actually pulled out of the movie during a May 30 meeting, after the studio had already laid out millions in production costs and made Dieter...
...give his government a chance to work by itself. So far, one of the only noteworthy headlines it produced was the desire of the Justice Minister to have a Jaguar as his official car, and yesterday's news reported his resignation due to health reasons. Haider then chose Dieter Bhömdorfer, a lawyer who has defended the Freedom Party for the past few years, as the next Justice Minister--a traditionally party-independent post--and the partisan choice did not go unnoticed by Austrians...
...study conducted in Germany by Dieter Melchart and Klaus Linke found that excessive herbal remedies caused strain on the liver and may have caused liver failure in patients...
...four-minute skit on Saturday Night Live is needlessly painful as a 90-minute movie. Nevertheless, it was announced last week that MIKE MYERS will get $20 million to write and star in Sprockets, a feature film based on the forbiddingly avant-garde German talk-show host Dieter that he played on SNL. Of course, Myers will have some backup. Reportedly, one version of the script for Sprockets had a role for Baywatch mastermind David Hasselhoff as a villain who, on tour in Germany, kidnaps Dieter's monkey...
Since DaimlerChrysler's incorporation in November, the company has melded its duplicate financial-services and technology divisions. Marketing chief Holden has succeeded in creating a global-sales and marketing organization with German counterpart Dieter Zetsche. Says chief engineer Bernie Robertson: "We have a strong operation here, there's a strong operation in Europe, and now there's the rest of the world to go after." Robertson admits, however, that he's still having a tough time getting German and American engineers to swap jobs...