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...expanding list of pageants is spurred and sponsored by cosmetics companies eager to tap into the $1 billion-plus Indian market. The search for Miss Monsoon, for instance, was funded by American Dreams, which sells "fine fragrances from the U.S.A." It is these vendors, say cynics, who have put the spotlight on Indian beauty. With millions of Indians tuning in for live broadcasts of competitions featuring their countrywomen, the pageant scene is an advertiser's dream. "I am not getting paranoid about an international conspiracy, but it obviously helps the cosmetics giants to have India associated with beauty," says novelist...
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) DCMT Contains an hour more of banter, such as the band's ruminations at Elvis' grave: "Why don't they make gravestones look cheerier?" "Probably because of that whole death thing involved with...
...zero in on in on Tony Soprano's e-mail orders to his henchmen while filtering out Carmela Soprano's gossip sessions with her sister and Tony Jr.'s visits to a Pokemon chat room. "This is a better minimization than what we do with headphones on a telephone tap," says one official...
...safe investments more akin to bonds--have heated up this year, gaining around 5% in a choppy market. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have made bets on the sector, investing in MidAmerican Energy and Avista, respectively. Stodgy, flat-footed utilities aren't going bankrupt, as predicted, but restructuring to tap the competitive markets. Given their background, though, it's not an easy switch. "These companies didn't consider themselves to have customers--they were called ratepayers," says Michael Egan, CFO of Peco Energy, the $5 billion Philadelphia-based giant that just merged with Unicom...
DIED. HAROLD NICHOLAS, 79, acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother Fayard helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals; in New York City. Early in their career, the brothers' dizzying footwork and preternatural elegance was displayed onscreen, though never in the same scenes as their white counterparts. In 1948, however, their virtuosity landed them alongside Gene Kelly in The Pirate. The brothers awed such dance-world luminaries as Fred Astaire and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who called the Nicholas brothers "the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever." They were honored by the Kennedy Center...