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...Dynasty-style camp here, just a great cast and sardonic writing by creator Mike White (Chuck and Buck). Judging by the polished pilot (directed by Diane Keaton) and the weirder, eerier and funnier follow-up, this is the best take on the creepy rich since Fox's short-lived Profit (1996). Pasadena may offer few Champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but it addictively retells one of the oldest stories in the world: your family is the strangest mystery you will ever unravel...
...real test for what a great editor is. A great editor is someone who balances what people want to know with what they need to know. And I think the top people, particularly the owners, of these networks, the managers at the top, have set up norms of profit that make it damn near impossible to do the kind of thing they should be doing...
...offers a whole lot of both. Six months (or more) of free housing, free food, foreign pay and hazard pay, and if that doesn't cut it, AOL Time Warner, corporate parent of this writer, has even promised to make up any difference in my income, profit targets be damned...
...West and US Airways, the weakest of the majors, were already headed into the tank pre-attacks - should they get the same loans at the same terms as, say, Delta, which has the best balance sheet of the Big Five? What about Southwest, which has actually been turning a profit for years - should its money go to, say, Continental, which is also profitable but mortally leveraged...
...Because even if Americans returned to the skies in full force tomorrow, tighter security means fewer daily flights, and fewer daily flights mean less profit from fixed assets like planes, routes and contract employees. The industry not only took an almost unimaginable one-time hit on Sept. 11, it entered an era where the flying business is even less profitable than it was before. Fundamental changes will have to be made, or the bailouts will never...