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...Today, the only reliable ratings spike for CNN, MSNBC and FOX is a continuing saga - à la Monica or O.J. or Elian - which is why network execs won't be sad if the fliers have an extended holiday in the East. They will be able to have their fancy graphics and chirons; their running heds, like MSNBC's "U.S-China Showdown," or Fox's "U.S.-China STANDOFF' (yes, it's all-caps); their hot-headed guests, like Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (who called the fliers "hostages held by a hostile power" - nice alliteration, Dana!), and opportunities for young and pretty anchors...
...however, Friel scored a big hit on Broadway in Patrick Marber's love-and-sex play Closer, and the stage seemed set for her emergence as a bona fide star. And Lulu, the tale of a woman who manipulates and is finally destroyed by men - the selfsame saga that made Louise Brooks a sex symbol in the 1929 film version - seems perfect for Friel's stage and screen persona...
...ACTOR Not all the stars of the next installment of the Star Wars saga, due out in spring 2002, will be human. Or droids. Or even wookies. In an interview with the technology-news website CNet, Rob Coleman, one of the wizards at George Lucas' famously secretive special-effects shop Industrial Light & Magic, confirmed that this time around, a computer-generated character will play a lead role, not just a sidekick--a first for a full-length live-action film. (Insert obligatory Jar-Jar Binks joke here...
...Francis Gagnon, the arrival of foot-and- mouth disease in France has been a saga of bureaucracy and needless slaughter. On March 16, some 40 armed police and 18 veterinary workers in white coats and rubber boots showed up at 6:45 a.m. on his farm in the Burgundy village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye. After police sealed off the farm, the men in white entered his barn and systematically injected a fast-acting poison into more than 833 of his sheep, many of them newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes. "No one could move without permission," says Gagnon. "Everyone...
Late last year, J.K. Rowling distressed zillions of readers by announcing that the fifth novel in her Harry Potter saga would not appear in 2001. The author sweetened this dismal news, at least a little, by promising to make available two books regularly read by students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Quidditch Through the Ages (Scholastic; 56 pages; $3.99) by Kennilworthy Whisp, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Scholastic; 42 pages; $3.99) by Newt Scamander...