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...well, however, since Benny must fight for her new-found love and sexual awakening against a trio of obstacles--her conservative parents, the Catholic Church, and Sean Walsh (Alan Cumming), the creepy suitor who is weaselling his way into her parents' affections. Sean is a lovable stereotype, whose lascivious lipsmacking and overall villainy are genuinely funny (at the film's advance screening, his every entrance was greeted by a good-natured hiss from the audience...
Without making a big deal about it, Lancaster had artistic ambitions. Early on he smartly inhabited characters created by prestige dramatists: the returning soldier in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the drunken husband in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, the buffoonish Italian suitor (a terrific turn) in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tatoo...
...will another suitor bust up the CBS-QVC union...
...those with a taste for both melodrama and irony, it would be appealing if Tisch -- widely considered the duller of the two men -- were cunning enough to use Diller as bait for an even more robust suitor. Why, it would be the stuff of network television. Greed! Lust! Power! Infighting! Backbiting! The Barry and Larry Show, with a few mystery guest stars, could be CBS's hottest program this summer...
Hours before a deadline to make another bid for Paramount Communications, Viacom, Paramount's preferred suitor, announced an agreement to merge with video-rental giant Blockbuster Entertainment. This combination will provide Viacom with the financing needed to counter QVC Network's hostile bid for Paramount.Viacom's new nearly $10 billion offer, though valued at slightly less than QVC's, raises the cash portion of the Viacom bid to $6.4 billion, about $700 million more than the cash in QVC's offer -- which QVC is free to increase...