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...Martha Stewart, it was a tough week. Her friend and former Imclone Chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to prison for insider trading. For us, keeping track of the growing roster of scandal-plagued corporate execs has become a dizzying task. Be honest: Did you even know that Freddie Mac was a company and not a government agency? A cheat sheet. --By Kate Novack...
...relief of lovers of serious theater, no fewer than four plays by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) have opened in London this summer. Granted, the lead performers have some Hollywood movies on their CVs, but they also have serious theater cred - Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Stewart know their way around the boards - and they're drawing rapturous reviews and full-house crowds. Industry-bible Variety magazine declared: "London stages a big comeback - a moribund theater climate has turned itself around." Stewart, best known as an X-Man and sometime Star Trekker, was last seen in the West...
...other bats from Sosa's locker all turned up negative (though the inquiry did determine the cause of global deforestation), but Major League Baseball handed him an eight-game suspension. Sosa is appealing the decision. It was another blow in a week of tarnished icons, including Martha Stewart, the New York Times and tennis star Serena Williams, who was bounced from the French Open in the semifinals. Maybe she should have tried a corked racket...
...Angeles, car chases provided the purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...
...pleaded guilty to all charges, was also ordered to pay $3 million in fines. He had tipped off family and friends to sell ImClone shares a day before the company announced that its application to market a cancer drug was rejected. Waksal's friend, American lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who sold her ImClone stock before the announcement, has been charged with securities fraud and obstruction of justice...