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...offbeat comedy My Name Is Earl are getting as much as $500,000 an episode, compared with $200,000 for sitcoms five years ago. Touchstone's Ugly Betty is on its second global lap. Based on the wildly popular Spanish-language telenovela Yo Soy Betty, la Fea, it was redeveloped for a U.S. audience and is now being resold in Europe and elsewhere--in some cases dubbed into Spanish...
...other networks have not jumped into the telenovela's arms quite as eagerly. ABC is hedging its bets, developing a remake of a telenovela from Colombia called Yo Soy Betty, la Fea (I Am Betty, the Ugly One) that transformed itself into a global hit. Local versions of Betty's ugly-duckling story won huge audiences in Germany, India and Russia, but ABC will air it as a once-a-week prime-time comedy. As the network responsible for Desperate Housewives, the closest thing to a network telenovela today, ABC has a good shot at creating a successful hybrid...
...conservative north. Her feckless campaign, whose only highlight was an oft-satirized Miami Beach dance party, prompted even the state's liberal teachers' union, the Florida Education Association, to endorse McBride. "Reno just didn't convey a specific message on the issues that matter this year," says the FEA's president, Maureen Dinnen. McBride's profile also got an unintended lift from Bush: preferring to face Reno in November, the Governor's campaign ran attack ads against McBride that backfired when they catapulted his name recognition...
...European culture. Americans are notorious in Europe for having no sense of history. This means that they do not grow up, as an Italian does, bombarded with dates and monuments and biographies. Every Italian town is a patchwork of architectural styles that children learn to identify. They are spoon-fea Church history, the history of the communist party, the history of the resistance, they memorize long lists of names and dates, and finally in high school they study both Italian and European history with great thoroughness. As a result the interaction between a society and its culture is something that...
...Federal Energy Administration's (FEA) removal of price and allocation controls from home heating oil. The FEA assured the public at the time that the price of the oil would increase by only two to three cents per gallon. After decontrol, however, the price of heating oil jumped by five to eight cents per gallon, making the added cost of this decision to American consumers more than $800 million, according to The Library of Congrvss...