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...least high spirits, informed the choice and telling of the tales. Typically, the books selected for adaptation were melo-dramas and adventure stories: "Treasure Island," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Sherlock Holmes," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Thirty-nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive...
...PUZO PLUMMETS: Mario Puzo died in 1999, but his last novel is being published now. "The Family," which will be published by ReganBooks on October 2, was finished by Carol Gino, Puzo?s longtime companion. Kirkus winces. "The old, black magic just isn?t here. ?The Family? is Godfather Lite. Eminently skippable." But Judith Regan, with a first printing of 250,000, is betting that most people don?t read Kirkus...
...tremble for the T. Talk Lite, indeed...
...rather large butterfly - joined in a hostile bid for Montedison, a conglomerate whose far-flung holdings include Italy's largest private-sector electric company. Such transactions would hardly seem to be the stuff of high drama. Yet that one move called into question the power of the élite investment bank Mediobanca - which owns 15% of Montedison - and started Italian investors buzzing about the future of businesses ranging from Europe's third-largest insurer to Italy's leading newspaper to a top fashion-design house. "After 50 years, the rules of the game are finally changing," says Fabio Gallia, managing...
...report last week on why race relations were bad in Bradford. Among other failings, it criticized politicians for making quiet deals with neighborhood ethnic leaders rather than tackling underlying problems. He sees hope in the young, who say they thirst to know other ethnic groups. Bradford's élite, gathered to hear Ouseley at the local football club (next to a mosque), wondered if his proposed solutions, like diversity audits of government agencies and a multicultural study center, could solve problems so entrenched. But stunned out of their complacency, they are glad...