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SHANIA TWAIN Sexy country singer wins top award. Guys agree: best Canadian import since Molson...
Each week 25 new companies audition to become Blanc & Otus clients. Otus picks up six a year, because even though she pays $70,000 a year to 28-year-old account executives, she cannot import them from the Midwest fast enough to handle the business. "We could make $4 million more in business each year," she says...
...raise obvious Peoria-play questions. Movie Stars had a relatively strong start amid weak summer competition, while Beggars' ratings have not taken off, despite fairly positive reviews. Action, however, will prove a big test. It's got notice for bringing pay cable's profanity to broadcast, but another risky import is the deep-insider view that worked for Larry Sanders' select, limited audience. (Creator and executive producer Chris Thompson, who was executive producer of Sanders, originally intended Action for HBO.) While Action could be the best fall comedy in an anemic field, and Mohr plays Dragon with an intriguingly baby...
FOOD FIGHT Roquefort cheese, truffles, chocolate bars, foie gras--the U.S. slapped 100% tariffs on these and other gourmet imports after Europe failed to lift its 10-year ban on American beef treated with growth hormones. The $116.8 million hit list, approved by the World Trade Organization, follows recent U.S. sanctions on items from coffee makers to cashmere over the E.U.'s discriminatory banana-import rules...
MARRIED. CHRISTOPHER DODD, 55, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; and JACKIE M. CLEGG, vice chair of the Export-Import Bank; in East Haddam, Conn. It is Dodd's second marriage...