Word: ets
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...critics alike hailed as a triumph his memoir of living with locked-in syndrome--a state of virtually total paralysis that leaves the victim, in Bauby's words, "like a mind in a jar"--the former editor in chief of French Elle magazine died. Bauby's book Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Bubble and the Butterfly) is a celebration of life written by a man incapable of speech or movement...
...rarely simpleminded approach to its subjects--each episode profiles a famous figure--has made it basic cable's version of must-see TV. Currently celebrating its 10th anniversary, Biography has gone from a weekly series to one that airs six times a week (Monday through Saturday, 8 p.m. et). The show's 1996 ratings were its highest ever, and it regularly draws 11,000 more viewers each week than CNN's hit Larry King Live. Success has led to spin-offs. Late last year A&E launched Biography for Kids. In January the network started a monthly magazine, also titled...
...witness: "Brutus took the knife and killed Caesar. Caesar seemed to look, well, sorta surprised, and he murmured 'Et tu Brute?' Then he died...
...some potentially intriguing film projects, but he abandoned them in order to make his comeback in the world where he feels safest--TV. This week he debuts in his first prime-time sitcom, titled--with the help of input from focus-group research--Arsenio (ABC; Wednesdays, 9:30 p.m. ET). The show has all the flair of an Oxford shirt...
PARIS: French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby used to liken his paralysis to being "a working brain kept in a jar. " That was until the publication last week of his 137-page book, "Le scaphande et le papillion" ("The Diving Suit and The Butterfly), which the onetime chief editor for Elle wrote by using his still functioning left eyelid to blink out wor ds to an assistant. But for Bauby, his escape from the hated "jar" came too late. He died Sunday night in a hospital outside of Paris at the age of 44; the cause of death was not announced...