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Next Monday, Comedy Central will begin broadcasting the final six of the show's 18 episodes for the first time in the U.S., which is likely to fan the AbFab fanaticism that's taking hold. Last month Pocket Books issued a compilation of AbFab teleplays. Jennifer Saunders, the show's creator, writer and co-star (as Edina), is writing a movie version of the comedy. In the meantime, Roseanne, who bought the American rights to the show because she thinks "every line of it is brilliant," has spent the past few weeks trying to persuade ABC executives that network audiences...
...Romantic Movement is somewhat more diffuse and abstract than his first book, and if believers will say he's refining his theme, skeptics will feel he's repeating himself. Still, it is stuffed with details that feel as familiar as old coins rediscovered in one's back pocket. Light as a souffla, and no less addictive, The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles...
What the MCI-News Corp. alliance indisputably does right off the bat is fatten News Corp.'s coffers. To Murdoch, with billions jangling in his pocket, a good part of the media world must now look like so many packages wrapped with bows, just waiting for him to untie them. Late last week he grabbed for one, making a $2.8 billion bid for the three television networks of Italy's former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, which are watched by nearly half the country's TV audience. And then? "Ted Turner may want to retire," he joked mordantly at a press conference...
...sensual pleasures, setting them against the terrible perspective of death, time and judgment. They exemplified the desenga?o del mundo, "disillusionment of the world," that was one of the chief tropes of Spanish Baroque art and literature. They could be small and simple-three moldy skulls and a pocket watch-or fulsome in their cascade of lessons...
...yourself, but if you lose money for the firm, the firm covers the losses. For instance, Salomon Brothers lost $399 million last year, the banking version of finishing in the cellar, yet not a single banker or trader offered to help Salomon by reaching into his or her own pocket, which had been stuffed with bonuses in the past...