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...SERIAL ACQUIRERS" Great companies grow mainly from within, while those that gobble up lots of other companies almost always end up with a nasty bout of nausea. Tyco is only the latest case; earlier came Conseco and others all the way back to the notorious LTV in the 1960s. Cisco, which has eaten dozens of other tech firms in recent years, hasn't quite gagged yet, but I'll be surprised if it doesn...
That would be Democratic fund raiser and serial billionaire-dater Patricia Duff and her daughter Caleigh by ex-husband Ron Perelman, chairman of Revlon. Then there's the Stewart entry, followed by: "2:07 Could Alan have your Knicks tickets?" No word yet on who Alan is or if he got to the game...
Ironically, it was a network cop show, Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues, that introduced serial "story arcs" into genre drama. But networks have retreated to the pre-Bochco era of "procedural" cop shows, in which character comes second to plot. The cops may have perfunctory personal stories, but you can easily ignore them and still enjoy the mysteries--that's why L&O has lost every original cast member yet enjoys its highest ratings ever. Cop procedurals are the new sitcoms: easily digestible, with stories wrapped up in one episode, they demand little commitment (and sell well in syndication...
Reichert and Bundy talked for two days, and Bundy played mind games. "He talked in the third person all the time, but later we realized he was talking about himself," says Reichert. But Bundy did give Reichert some useful insights: a serial killer doesn't leave home in the morning compelled to kill; he will do it when he feels like it and when he feels safe. He needs to be in control. He told Reichert the police were giving too much information to the press and concurred with Reichert's suspicion that the killer was at times taunting...
...much pop to the party. Outside the competition, Taiwan pursued its two-cinemas-one-country course. On the art side: Yee Chih-yen's Blue Gate Crossing, a teen courtship fable with a lovely, troubled mood. On the pop side: Chen Kuo-fu's Double Vision, an enjoyable, disposable serial-killer thriller with stars from the U.S. (David Morse) and Hong Kong (Tony Leung). It's been made before, too many times...