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...Nobody has picked up any of my quotes yet. In fact I'm having a hard time getting the studios to plunk down $50,000 for the newspaper. But no one on my staff is doing it for the money. Like Gene Shalit and Joel Siegel before us, we just get a big kick out of seeing our names in the paper. That's what drives people like us into this business. That and the free popcorn...
...Just don't head over to H&R Block expecting your refund check to miraculously appear the moment you plunk down your shoebox full of tax information. And if someone does hand you a nice fat check, take a good hard look...
...HAPPY One sure sign that you have an instant-messaging problem is that you've gone online to buy AOL's new Mobile Communicator ($329.95, plus $19.95 a month). That's quite a lot of money to plunk down just to be able to catch your e-mail and eye your buddy list anywhere. O.K., O.K., we admit it: this device is so easy to use (and painfully addictive) that we might need to seek help soon...
...Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth 41. 1998 animated film 43. Phrase in disco names 44. Iron: prefix 45. He's at odds with 16-Down 47. OPEC units 48. Fool 49. Org. that will study cell-phone safety 50. Trent's predecessor 52. Simile center 53. Prefix with plunk or flop...
...funds. Even the CIA has set up a venture arm, In-Q-Tel. And later this year, Silicon Valley start-up MeVC, along with VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will roll out a publicly traded venture fund that lets individuals with a net worth of at least $150,000 plunk down a minimum of $5,000 to play...