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This old Britishism, a long-winded way to say "finally," is the mot du jour for Jeffrey Katzenberg and others in the burgeoning world of DreamWorks SKG, the company he created with director Steven Spielberg and pop-music potentate David Geffen. For their infant company, though, it is the beginning of the day--a gold sunrise of high finance and unprecedentedly high expectations...
ELIZABETH HURLEY, known chiefly for standing near Briton du jour Hugh Grant in photogenic outfits, is the new face of Estee Lauder. Now she might be able to deflect attention from another part of her anatomy. Hurley wasn't overjoyed when Grant publicly described her breasts as "magnificent, the best pair in London." While she believes in a free press, Hurley says, "I'd often like to censor Hugh Grant...
With Haiti as the White House crisis du jour, Administration officials have been unhappily juggling some hot potatoes lobbed into the Justice Department by federal drug informants -- namely, a series of uncorroborated but sensational allegations that Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's erstwhile President, took hundreds of thousands of dollars in look-the-other-way money from Colombian drug cartels while in office. Though none of the claims have been supported, and the sources may have suspect motives, jittery officials fear that discounting the accusations would incur charges of political favoritism. "My guidance is to go by the book...
...this mess, which gets bigger and nastier with each passing day," Nero wrote. "Let's put it behind us and learn from it, not punish each other needlessly for it. I, for one, long [for] a return to the days where I check The Crimson for the scandal du jour...
Socialist becomes Japan's Prime Minister du jour...