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...Paris prison the details of Rene's scandalous affair. John Doan's portrayal of Rene's friend Marc as a ruthless womanizer who views women as objects designed for his pleasure magnified the pitiful character of Rene, who was unpopular at school, indulged his fantasies by reading playboy and married an older woman he didn't love...
...with 150 employees and real revenue, has a good chance of launching a successful offering. Adult companies have gone public before--Playboy Enterprises in 1993 and New Frontier Media last year--but none of them, served up amid a frenzied IPO market, have been pure Internet plays. (One other, much less endowed company, efox.net Inc., has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO.) And remember, many recent Internet IPO stars were companies with no earnings--think Marketwatch, theglobe.com and Geocities. IEG is already hugely profitable. If it were comparably valued, it would be worth hundreds of millions...
...second-tier underwriters, the seamy associations might be worth the bottom-line bump. Craig Gould, vice president of National Securities, a firm that says it is likely to be in on the deal, believes the company can be floated, pointing out that BearStearns found a way to take Playboy public: "History has shown that Wall Street has raised money for adult companies," he says. Fidelity and Warburg Pincus hold blocks of Playboy stock, while BearStearns and T. Rowe Price own positions in Spice Entertainment, another adult-media company...
...When you're starring opposite Johnny Depp and the nude photos you took before you were famous start popping up in unexpected places. Right about now, CHARLIZE THERON, soon to be seen carrying Depp's baby in The Astronaut's Wife, should start considering herself a success. This month Playboy features the statuesque starlet in what she claims are unauthorized pictures taken prior to her big break. "The photos were taken expressly for the purpose of her portfolio and not for publication," says Theron's publicist. He says it was a "complete shock" when they came out in Playboy. Theron...
...outbreeds and outeats the local fauna. That's why the Easter Bilby has caught on. The beady-eyed 5-lb. marsupial is on the endangered-species list thanks to rabbits, but its candy version has prospered, scoring 10% of all the country's Easter-chocolate sales. Somehow the Playboy Bilby doesn't seem as cute an idea...