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...they file into studio 8g at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, audience members are treated to the sort of freebie they would not be given had they ordered tickets to the Richard Bey Show. Resting on each of the 175 seats are a pint of milk (low fat) and a snack-size package of Drake's cakes. This is the Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the gimmick is apt. The actress and comic, part brassy New Yorker, part perky den mother, has come to TV to serve up the daytime talk show as comfort food...
...dozen books, on TV (twice a day), unofficially on the Internet, at K Mart, and in her catalog (Martha by Mail). In an interview, conducted as she shuttled among her farm in Westport, Connecticut, her two Hampton beach houses on New York's Long Island and her Manhattan office, she says her aim is nothing less than to take over Christmas. "It is our intention to own areas in communication. I don't mean to sound egomaniacal, but Perry Como used to own Christmas on TV. By own I mean monopolize and influence...
Since starting its AOL forum in August 1994, the Fool's most notable accomplishment has been discovering a company called Iomega long before the wing tips in downtown Manhattan did. Iomega, based in Roy, Utah, makes devices for computers called Zip drives and Jaz drives that enable users to store massive amounts of information speedily, reliably and affordably. In early 1995, various Fools, as the participants call themselves, began posting news about the first Zips to hit the market. They soon put their money where their modems were and reaped the rewards. Many of the earliest posters on the Iomega...
...arriving in bookstores--called Diana: The Lonely Princess, it alleges affairs with a whole new host of unnamed men--Di maintained her dignity last week as she toured Chicago raising money for cancer research. Also Stateside was sister-in-law Fergie, whose trip was not born of altruism. In Manhattan, Fergie, who has signed on with the modeling agency Next Management, inked a deal with Simon & Schuster--reportedly worth $1.3 million--to write her autobiography...
Among the pleasures of Millhauser's fourth novel, which continues in the author's previous vein of treating American history with dreamlike obsession, are descriptions of Manhattan as it began to transform its landscape into a 20th century skyline: an eruption of "modern flowers with veins of steel, bursting out of bedrock." It does not take a Viennese mind doctor to find eroticism in such charged imagery. Building cities is a procreative business, and Dressler is an evocative example of a breed driven to reproduce itself in concrete. A decision to marry a withdrawn woman of no discernible personality...