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...Joseph, the actress signed a reported $15 million deal to reprise her erogenous zone-baring role in the sequel to Basic Instinct. Stone had studiously avoided Basic Instinct 2 for years (though for some reason she agreed to do Gloria, Sliver and The Muse), but relented when original producer Mario Kassar regained the film rights. "I felt assured that the project will be made with respect to the original," said Stone, although co-star Michael Douglas, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas won't re-up. "I'm hoping that this will also be a two-box-of-popcorn...
...Mario Monti doesn't necessarily hate America. The European Union's Competition Commissioner, the Joel Klein of the Continent, is Italian, after all, not French. But this week his commission moved to block the WorldCom-Sprint deal and launched an investigation into AOL-Time Warner (parent of this site), and in the past year it has started similar probes into deals by Boeing and Microsoft. Could Monti's evident distaste for American corporate marriages be less about antitrust law than geopolitics...
...after two years in New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office, Russert's plans changed as he made the leap from politics to media...
...find that Giuliani's likely replacement, Long Island Congressman Rick Lazio, is a tougher opponent than Rudy would have been. Lazio is no titan, but he is young, genial, ethnic, Roman Catholic, suburban and unknown to most voters--just like George Pataki was when he whupped a titan named Mario Cuomo in New York's 1994 gubernatorial race. "Hillary was better off against Rudy," says Hank Sheinkopf, a New York media consultant who worked for Clinton-Gore in 1996. "His high negatives balanced hers. Lazio doesn't have negatives--and if she attacks him before anyone figures...
...Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo...