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...musicals that have burst onto the London stage in preparation for taking over the world, Jerry Springer--The Opera may be the oddest. The show, with faux-operatic music and raunchy lyrics by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, has been a sellout hit at the National Theatre since April and will transfer to the West End in October. Negotiations are under way for a Broadway production, which could arrive as early as next spring. A movie deal is already cooking. Co-producer Jon Thoday predicts that within three years there "should be 15 productions playing around the world...
...oddest beneficiary of all this attention is preferred stocks, whose market has been shrinking until recently. Like the centaurs and griffins of Greek mythology, "preferreds" are a peculiar blend of two beasts. Like bonds, preferred shares usually pay high current income--dividends that lately pay up to 9% or 10% (that's good). On the other hand, like common stocks, preferreds have only a junior claim on assets if a company goes bust--so in a bankruptcy you could be left with nothing (that...
Barman says he often constructs songs using isolated rhymes he discovers at the oddest of times...
...there is something arresting about it too. The damned thing keeps gnawing at your mind--if only for its almost perfect lack of conventional sentiment. Or movieness. Take a tough pill--and maybe wear your lead shoes--and check it out. It's one of the oddest American "comedies" in recent memory. --By Richard Schickel
...which is typically included in apartment rents. To complicate matters, German cable providers don't own the "last mile"--the wire into the home. That privilege is reserved for thousands of so-called Level 4 operators, made up of everyone from real estate companies to apartment-house owners. "The oddest part of it all is that the cable operators themselves don't get the lion's share of the money. The Level 4 operators do," says Michael Lynton, head of AOL Time Warner's international ventures. "Ultimately the economics of the business have to change for cable operators...