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...Digital's parent companies, Carlton and Granada. And although the Football League has signed a new four-year deal with BSkyB, its $145 million price tag falls far short of the original - as a result, some clubs have released players in order to cut wage bills. With a glut of talent on the market and clubs facing shrinking revenues, Summerbee and McKinlay - who hope they will be picked up by Leicester City on a permanent basis - could be the first of many footballers taking to the pitch for love alone...
Cameos are almost as old as movie stars. In the 1928 Show People, Marion Davies doesn't notice that the fellow asking for her autograph is Charlie Chaplin. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope traded cameos in their '40s films. But this summer has a gleeful glut of celebs dropping in unannounced on other people's parties...
...workers clear the last pieces of debris from the World Trade Center site, readers with no more courage than it takes to drive to Barnes & Noble are snapping up the many new firefighter books on store shelves and best-seller lists. The current crop precedes what will be a glut of 9/11-anniversary-pegged books this fall, including former New York Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen's memoir and a history of his department. It's clear firefighters are hot. The simmering question: Will enough vicarious heroes buy books to sustain the trend? --By Rebecca Winters...
Most people blame idle friends and spammers for the junk that clogs their e-mail In boxes. But productivity expert Mark Ellwood says we all contribute to the problem. Ellwood is the author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, a slim volume of practical tips on how to "take responsibility" for excessive e-mailing and "find more time for the things that count." Some of his suggestions--use the phone instead and institute a No E-Mail Day--are blindingly obvious. But Ellwood is also effective at challenging the utility of beloved functions like the autoresponder (it notifies senders...
...held on well at the box office. The R-rated Al Pacino thriller Insomnia has also done well. The unassuming but endearing indie comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding has found an audience, with minimal advertising and generous word of mouth. And Miramax is betting against the glut of blockbusters with four art-house movies this summer, including Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Full Frontal, director Steven Soderbergh's star-studded but extremely arty movie set for release Aug. 2. "The premise behind releasing all these is, there's nothing for my mother and my friends...