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...software, and AOL alone receives 9 million reports a day. That may not be enough to stop the Carmacks of the world, but anything that saves us from a few more cable-descrambler ads can't be all bad. --With reporting by Kathie Klarreich/Miami, Sean Scully/Los Angeles, Eric Roston/Washington, Simon Crittle/New York and Noah Isackson/Chicago
...years ago, two movies about erupting volcanoes debuted within weeks of each other. The following year, the same thing happened with two films about flying space rocks. This month a pair of novels about the inner workings of Hollywood will hit bookstores within days of each other. Maneater (Simon & Schuster; 309 pages) by Gigi Levangie Grazer and Action! (Random House; 388 pages) by Robert Cort explore the less camera-ready aspects of the film industry, and the authors know whereof they speak. Grazer wrote the screenplay for Stepmom and is married to Brian Grazer, the Academy Award--winning producer...
...fall. Voters will be asked whether Davis should be removed from office--and, on the same ballot, which candidate should replace him. With no runoff, the candidate who gets a plurality of votes wins--which makes it a wide-open contest. Several prominent Republicans, including losing gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are eyeing the seat. One prospective candidate, multimillionaire Congressman Darrell Issa, has put up $445,000 of his own money to back the recall effort. Democrats are in a trickier position; while publicly denouncing the recall drive, they could...
More than a crime writer or social dramatist, Simon is a poet of beautiful losers. He has an unfailing ear for dialogue (getting a hard-to-solve case is "catching a stone whodunit"), and he's abetted by the subtle performances of regulars like Sonja Sohn and Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome--he's a dinosaur and knows it--and his underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts...
...more than 25% of GDP in France and Germany, up from just over 17% five years ago. No wonder corporate health benefits are on the rise. In 1993 in the U.K., almost 3.8 million people were covered by company health insurance; by 2001, the number was 4.7 million. Simon Pomeroy, of recruitment consultants Robert Walters Associates, notes that health cover tends to matter more to older workers and those with families, and advises them to check the fine print. "Health care isn't standard. Sometimes the level of coverage is minimal." Don't put it off Kohn suggests that employees...