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...This club is reknowned for its world famous hand soap and fabulous moisturizers. When asked about their club, AD members blush and, sinfully munching on a slice of poundcake, comment, "Well, we do pride ourselves on our scented, perfumed, delicately artistic hands." The AD look tends towards the funkiest of vintage clothing, and club enthusiasm keeps the pillows always well fluffed...
...power," he says. "Delivery of service is now in the hands of the professionals." To help Leakey with the colossal task ahead, Moi has created a kind of shadow ministry by appointing a small team of technocrats as permanent secretaries. As the latest episode in the two-man soap opera unfolds, Leakey and Moi insist their struggles are behind them. "I have little doubt that there will be a number of issues on which we will disagree," says Leakey. "Sometimes he will concede, and sometimes I will concede, but hopefully it will be a concession based on argument, not might...
...large (about 31 million), fickle 12-to-19-year-old demographic draws ad money. But the economics alone don't explain the high school vogue, nor why the shows include a couple of the fall's better premieres. True, high school programs are still often mired in soap-opera plots--see the randy Manchester, whose early glimpses just miss so-bad-it's-good status--but they are also attracting writers and producers seeking to make statements and referencing hot-button issues and carrying credits like The Larry Sanders Show, The X-Files and My So-Called Life on their...
...HOST] Soap star Shemar Moore...
Which may be just what we want to hear. In essence, these shows say about the famous what soap operas say about the rich--that they're no better than we are, probably less happy, possibly less moral. Audiences today have a love-to-hate relationship with Hollywood and the media; we've supported Beavis and Butt-head's meta-media sarcasm and David Letterman's roasting of TV bigs. It's a short step from a late-night joke about CBS chief Les Moonves to the name dropping that has become easy punch-line fodder on even bland fare...