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...hundreds of millions pulled in by such A-list retailers as Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Restoration Hardware (armchair giant La-Z-Boy did $2.6 billion in sales last year). But guess who makes most of their upholstered furniture? And the leather club chairs and slipcover sofas in Ally McBeal and Friends? Mitchell Gold...
That may be in part because male nannies are now hip. Jon Bon Jovi, playing the latest love interest of TV's Ally McBeal, doubles as a nanny to her daughter, 10. Trend spotter Faith Popcorn predicts that in the next decade, "manny" (as the guys are called) will become, well, a household word. "Europeans have known for decades that guys can be just as nurturing," says Helen Riley-Collins of San Francisco's In-House Staffing at Aunt Ann's, one of the country's oldest agencies. "Now we're starting to accept...
...Barr may be aware of this failing, because she loads Backpack with enough neurotic angst to fill a season's worth of Ally McBeal, then grafts on a murder-mystery subplot centering around a backpacker serial killer stalking Tansy look-alikes. The murderer can be spotted within a few paragraphs of the title page, but provides a diversion from a suddenly at-one-with-Asia Tansy looking down upon the "tourists" in Bangkok or musing with unconscious irony upon "deluded Westerners" at the base of Mount Everest. Barr even includes Tansy's rambling e-mails home; most people...
...Winners DAME EDNA EVERAGE Cross-dressed Aussie gets role on Ally McBeal. You'll know they've jumped the shark when an Edna-Ally-Bon Jovi love triangle is revealed STEPHEN DOWNING Mentally impaired Briton is freed after 27 years in prison for a bum murder rap. At least he got to miss the Thatcher years LARRY KING Voluble host re-signs with CNN for nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs...
...sweet, bright kid, devoted to her hampered dad, but now that she is 7, she has started to outstrip Sam in reading and social skills. When the state tries to take her from Sam, he hooks up with a frazzled lawyer (Pfeiffer, playing a more harried Ally McBeal) to win the child back...