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HUNDRED-DOLLAR BABY ROBERT B. PARKER...
...Charles, whom I'm guessing didn't get a lot of it at home. He works so hard at the game of ingratiation, and he's waited so long for the position he was born to, that even his gaffes appeal to me. That indiscreet love chat with Camilla Parker-Bowles - his wish that he could be her tampon - had the clumsy tenderness of a man not schooled in seduction but enslaved...
SCREW CAPS AND GLASS STOPPERS Influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has predicted that by 2015 more wines will be opened with the twist of a wrist than the pull of a cork. Screw caps eliminate the oxidation and taint problems, are simple to open--no corkscrew required!--and reseal easily. After decades of being associated with cheap wine, they're finally overcoming their image problem. New Zealand already closes more than 80% of its wines with screw caps. The French even use them on a few prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies...
...that For Your Consideration is premiering here. It relates the making of a small, indie film - Home for Purim, about a Southern Jewish family - that some showbiz blogger unaccountably tips as an Oscar contender. In a trice, the non-starry cast (impersonated by Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey and Christopher Moynihan) gets dreaming of statuettes - an addiction that infects the film's director, sitcom veteran Jay Berman (Guest, funny) and the studio boss (Ricky Gervais) who now thinks the film could be big big big, if only everything were changed...
...apocalypse. Elizabeth Arden, which has turned an enormous profit on the bulletproof Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds fragrance, introduced Britney Spears' scent, Curious?the No. 1 fragrance launch in 2004-05?and plans to present new products from Hilary Duff and, in an interesting turn, Danielle Steel. Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton, Donald Trump and Sean (Diddy) Combs also have their own celebrity scents...