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...greed lost its lure in Hollywood? Is wearing scrubs and working with chest paddles so onerous? Do television stars really still believe they can be successful in the movies? These were among the disquieting questions raised last week when JULIANNA MARGULIES rebuffed a $27 million offer to remain on ER for two more seasons. After six years of playing nurse Carol Hathaway, Margulies is intent on pursuing her film career. "We wish her well and know that she will be successful in all her endeavors," said ER executive producer John Wells. Perhaps Wells hasn't seen The Newton Boys, Margulies...
...just starting out, he created a world that revolved around a bicycle with streamers flying from the handlebars; in Edward Scissorhands, it was a creatively stifled suburban neighborhood; and, in Batman Returns, reality was bounded by Gotham Citys perpetually moonlit skyline. Burton's films become dark, contained fantasylands that lure you in as much as they make you wonder what goes on inside his head. From Beetlejuice to Mars Attacks, this director has honed his signature style, a style that, in the words of one actor who worked with him, can best be defined as Burton genre...
Once payment and privacy are accounted for, each of the three new e-commerce sites has its own strategy for pushing merchandise to teens and the grownups who love them. At DoughNET, special promotions like free movie tickets with selected purchases or contest entries lure young shoppers. On iCanBuy, kids can peruse celebrity wish lists (tip: Britney Spears wants a WNBA basketball, body glitter and, oddly enough, her own CD). At RocketCash, a top-10 list of user purchases lends some insight into what's hot with the masses. Recent chart toppers include a Limp Bizkit CD and wooden bracelets...
...frequently in mainstream print and on TV, Pecker wants the real tabloids to get more respect--and a bigger share of the action. "Right now only 8% of our revenue is advertising," he says. "I think there's an opportunity to get it up to 15% to 20%." To lure upscale advertisers, Pecker has swallowed a weekly loss of $100,000 by banning those blurbs hawking psychic healers, herbal remedies and the like in the Enquirer and the Star...
...UPSHOT] The law was signed in July after close call on whether the White House would veto it. Congressional Democrats initially opposed the bill, but critics say the lure of high-tech donations made many of them supporters...