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...millions for the story of her son Damian's birth. Meanwhile, Hugh Grant is trying desperately to impregnate himself Losers DAVID BECKHAM England's top footballer breaks foot, may miss World Cup. For our American readers, that's like the Rock getting injured before Summer Slam ED MCMAHON Carson sidekick's house infected with toxic mold. McMahon said he would never have known the mold was toxic from the way it tasted MICHAEL OVITZ Hollywood talent czar loses his best account: Robin Williams. His second-best account: Father Hands-to-Himself, the non-molesting priest...
...Late Night.) "Sometimes we'd have an older guest who wasn't too familiar with the show," remembers O'Brien, "and he'd point at Andy and ask, 'Who's the dummy?' And the audience would boo! [The guest] would be shocked: 'What's going on? I called Ed McMahon a dummy on Johnny Carson 20 years ago, and it got a laugh...
...keep the cloud below him on the executive chain, would later have no problem remembering - Andrew Fastow, Michael Kopper, Richard Buy and Richard Causey. The four men, in turn, had no problem taking the Fifth Amendment and quickly departed. Then Tauzin brought out its heroes, former company Treasurer Andrew McMahon and former in-house lawyer Jordan Mintz. Both said they went to Skilling with their concerns about the shady partnerships - and to get his approval on them - and Skilling reportedly gave them the coldest of executive shoulders. Plausible deniability comes in handy when the natural gas hits...
...Still, neither McMahon nor Mintz could conclusively make Skilling culpable - or, as McMahon told the committee: "I don't know how well Skilling was informed." Which was pretty much how Skilling summed it up when he took the stand Thursday afternoon. He left Enron Aug. 14 "for personal reasons," he testified, and at the time sincerely believed that Enron was not only in fine shape but that its financial statements "accurately reflected the company's financial condition...
...blame? Everybody else. Mintz and McMahon nudged the cloud upward toward Skilling (and Lay, and Buy and Causey and Kopper and Fastow). Robert Jaedicke and Herbert Winokur, two Enron board members trying to explain why they missed the whole thing, did likewise, throwing in Arthur Andersen and law firm Vinson & Elkins. Said Winokur: "It appears outside experts...failed us." Officials at both Arthur Andersen and Enron, added Jaedicke, "did not fulfill their duty...