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...Nations, a girl rock group (a nice novelty idea) on the rise in the L.A. music world - made "BVD" the first major movie drenched in sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. It parodies Susann, Hollywood big-shots, sex-star hangers-on (Edy as Ashley St. Ives) and record producer Phil Spector (a weird man ultimately outed as a homicidal woman). At the end, the movie slices its own jugular and spurts crimson violence before doubling over in a mock-inspirational coda that somehow blends "Bride and Groom" with the Jerry Lewis Telethon...
...best. No, it's not that network--or either of the other two. I-24 is the fictional network at the center of Breaking News (Bravo, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a new drama whose subject is especially relevant during the summer of the 8 p.m. joust among Bill, Phil and Connie (O'Reilly, Donahue and Chung...
...bush"), into one called Spectrum 7 in 1984 and then led the struggling firm into Harken's embrace in 1986. In exchange for his 15% stake in Spectrum, Bush got Harken stock worth some $320,000; he was also hired as an $80,000-a-year consultant. Harken founder Phil Kendrick explained it this way: "His name was George Bush," he told TIME. "That was worth the money they paid...
...stinging new congressional report mocks claims of ignorance by Enron board members like former CEO Ken Lay and Wendy Gramm, the wife of Texas Senator Phil Gramm. As a top federal regulator during the previous Bush Administration, Wendy Gramm promoted a lucrative regulatory exemption that benefited Enron, and then became a director of the company months later, in 1993. She also served on Enron's crucial audit committee as the board "knowingly allowed Enron to engage in high-risk accounting." Another of the report's conclusions is that Enron directors were aware of everything from extensive off-the-books deals...
...from the 60-page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that onetime Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed Martin and Qualcomm. Wendy Gramm has already stepped down from several of her board assignments, but her husband Phil is leading the G.O.P. bid to block legislation due before the Senate this week that its proponents say will prevent future Enrons. --By Adam Zagorin