Word: dixons
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...grandmother, Tabitha (Jessica Walter, best known for playing another boozy matriarch, Arrested Development's Lucille Bluth). Like Brenda and Brandon parking their Chevy Chevette in the high school lot next to BMWs and Porsches in the 1990 pilot, new siblings Annie (Shenae Grimes of Degrassi: The Next Generation) and Dixon (Tristan Wilds of The Wire) arrive as all-American kids trying to fit in among some of the wealthiest, most entitled teens in the 50 states. Along with Kelly, the Peach Pit and its jovial counterman Nat (Joe E. Tata), Shannen Doherty is also back as Brenda, in a guest...
...just generational diversity that separates the new 90210 from the old. In the original, the only nonwhite cast members were extras - black students inexplicably wearing business suits to school and a couple of young Saudi sheiks roaming the quad. In 90210 2.0, Dixon, who is adopted, is African American. Another regular character, Navid Shirazi, is an Iranian-American student played by darkly handsome (though not Iranian) Michael Steger. So far the new show has thankfully avoided a Gabrielle Carteris - that is, an actor over age 30 trying to pass as a high schooler...
Another inevitable update is technological. In 1990, West Beverly students ever so rarely talked into brick-sized black boxes which archaeologists now identify as early cell phones. In 2008, new character Erin Silver (Jessica Stroup) - half-sister of Kelly Taylor and David Silver, and classmate of Annie and Dixon - is a YouTube sensation with a popular video diary...
...been a growing list of such relatively minor mishaps: burst tires, a burning engine, a fallen engine panel, an aborted takeoff, a forced switch to battery power as a plane landed. The July 25 incident was far more serious. It was "a tremendously bad one," said Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon, "and it's one we regret...
...Alan Joyce, the smart, energetic CEO of Qantas' discount subsidiary Jetstar, who will take over as CEO from Dixon, who is retiring in November, recently suggested that simply cutting costs might not be enough to keep the company viable. Qantas, he said, might have to merge with another airline in the next few years. "With the high fuel prices we have, if that continues, a lot of airlines are not economic if they stand alone," Joyce told reporters. Qantas' "never crashed" reputation will hopefully survive, but there's no certainty its name will...