Word: qvc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nothing says creepy like a Hitchcock movie, except perhaps the Hitchcock 100th-birthday edition of Clue or the commemorative Bates Motel shower curtain or robe. QVC's Hitchcock beanbag bear was scary in a whole other...
...want Pete Rose to shut up. How far can the man go on the I'm-banned-from-baseball-woe-is-me train? Far enough to get to QVC, where he is hawking autographs for $49.95 a pop. Dealer, please...
Diller, who made an unsuccessful run at Paramount in 1994 using stock from the shop-at-home company QVC, has been seen by the Internet community as crashing the party with a most unwelcome piece of news: your companies aren't worth as much as you think. (And for a few wobbly days early last week, he was right.) Wetherell and his ilk are now seeking to show Diller the door. "He's Barry Diller, he's famous, he's a great dealmaker, but he may have overstepped," says Joe Butt, senior analyst at Forrester Research...
...night is punctuated by underdog winners, the greatest of which may have been Tova Nights, which won Women's Fragrance Introduction of the Year in Non-Store Venues. Accepting the award from presenters Kenny Rogers and Faye Dunaway, Tova Borgnine thanked Margaret from Pennsylvania, a QVC viewer who inspired Tova Nights by confessing to Borgnine that her other products had led her to have a "Tova night" with her husband. Before, she implied, she was having a lot of Carol Channing nights...
...Vegas-born designer, 40, got his start designing swimsuits for Anne Cole and had his own line of sports clothes for several years. He boasts that he once sold 5,000 five-piece matching outfits with their own carry bag in five minutes on QVC. "They were $79.95," says Duke. "You couldn't even walk into a store and get two pieces for that." With the same optimistic exuberance, Duke picked up a phone and sold himself for the job at Halston after reading in the papers that the label was being resurrected...