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ABC climbs
to second in
NEW YORK (AP) — Fortune
is smiling on ABC for its deci-
sfon to shake the late-summer
dlldrums with a throwback to
tit 1 early days of television: a
plime-time game show.
■ The Regis Philbin-hosted
“Who Wants To Be a Million
aire” has run 13 out of 14
evenings this month
■ The quiz show has been a
surprise hit among viewers en-
jjtranced by its boom-or-bust for
mat.
■ ABC is already asking for
more.
I Four episodes of the quiz
show were ranked in Nielsen
Media Research’s top 10 shows
last week.
B With the quiz show’s help,
Al'C moved ahead to a strong
second-place showing in the
rltings.
I ABC also placed first among
tltal viewers and adults aged
IT-49.
■ “When you look at the rat-
■gs, you can see the broad ap-
Ral,” said Michael Davies, the
show’s executive producer.
■ “Families are watching this
tigether and young people are
throwing parties to watch it.”
I In the recreation of a British
ifv game show, participants
build bankrolls by answering
questions that steadily grow
more difficult.
I Contestants have a chance to
win big money.
R However, at each point play
ers risk losing much of what
they’ve already earned if they
ranswer incorrectly.
1 ABC has already asked for
additional episodes, Davies
said.
K It’s not clear when they
would be ready to air or
whether they would run as a
weekly series or several nights
in a row as it was this time.
■ The ratings performance
buoyed ABC, which has rou
tinely run a distant third during
most of the past year.
R Even more encouraging,
‘IMillionaire” picked up view
ers as the week went on, with
the exception of the traditional
ly slow Saturday night.
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“Used books go fast because
y’re 25 percent cheaper then
jiew ones,” Schleter said.
■ “The best advice I can give to
students is beat the rush.
1 “A lot of people don’t like to buy
their books until they’ve gone to
the class and confirmed exactly
what they need, but all the book
stores offer very liberal returning
policies, so books can easily be
brought back. ”
■Unfortunately, many professors
alivays request the newest edition
of a text book for a class.
If This means there is no way to
iat the high prices by buying a
Rok.
I Brad Dumas, a senior account
ing major, said this is the most frus
trating part of his major.
“Like with income tax classes,
,e tax code changes every year. ”
rmas said. “So, the books have to
change accordingly.
“1 guess my library will look
|etty impressive with all my stacks
worthless books.”
As for what can be done to help
all the students bearing the finan-
lal cross of textbook buying, Du-
nas said this year he is considering
[lying his books online.
“Well, I heard that even after
ipping costs, it is still like 30 per-
nt cheaper,” Dumas said.
“So, you know, if I can’t get any
oney back off of them, at least I
n do something to make them
iheaper. ”
Schleter suggested buying ex
pensive books from someone
Whose already taken the class and
is looking to sell them.
| “There are signs up all the time
for people who are selling their his-
)ry books, or whatever,” Schleter
hd.
“If it’s too expensive for you to
juy from a book store, you could
[uy the books from them.
“That way, they’ll get more
toney back for it, and you’ll still
tobably end up spending less.”
Oliver Stone sent
to drug rehab
BEVERLY HILLS (AP) — Oliver
Stone will enter drug rehab and
plead no contest to drunken dri
ving and drug possession as part of
a plea bargain that will keep him
out of jail, a prosecutor said.
The Oscar-win
ning filmmaker
was scheduled to
enter his plea and
be sentenced
Sept. 13.
Stone, 52, was
not in court yes
terday when de
tails of the agree- stone
ment were
presented.
The JFK director. Stone, was ar
rested June 9 after being spotted
driving erratically.
A search of his car turned up a
small amount of hashish, and pros
ecutors said his blood alcohol lev
el was above the legal limit.
Guitar owned by
Lennon to be sold
LONDON (AP) — The guitar
that a 16-year-old John Lennon
was playing with the Quarrymen
the day he met Paul McCartney will
be auctioned next month.
The meeting on July 6, 1957, re
sulted in the 15-year-old McCart
ney being asked to join the band,
which evolved into the Beatles.
The Gallotone Champion is ex
pected to fetch up to $160,000
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
when it is sold Sept. 14.
Lennon bought the black-and-
red guitar by mail for about $28
one month before playing at a
church picnic near Liverpool.
McCartney approached Lennon
later that evening as the group set
up for another session at the
church hall.
He impressed Lennon by teach
ing him the chords and words to
Eddie Cochran’s ‘‘Twenty Flight
Rock.”
A few days later, Lennon asked
McCartney to join the group.
Lennon was shot to death in
New York in 1980.
Kaelin wins
tabloid lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kato
Kaelin won a round in his $15 mil
lion lawsuit against a tabloid over
the headline: ‘‘Cops Think Kato
Did It!”
A federal
judge Monday re
jected the Nation
al Examiner’s ar
gument that the
headline was not
malicious be
cause its lawyers
approved it.
A declaration
of malice would
open the tabloid to punitive dam
ages.
‘‘Simply because an attorney
approves of it does not mean that
actual malice does not exist,” said
U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevriz-
KAELIN
ian Jr.
Kaelin was O.J. Simpson’s
houseguest when Simpson’s ex-
wife and a friend were killed in
1994.
Simpson was acquitted of mur
der but found responsible for the
slayings in a civil case.
Kaelin testified about thumps
on the wall the night of the slay
ings.
The Examiner story itself did
not accuse Kaelin of killing Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ron Gold
man.
The tabloid’s news editor said
the headline referred to perjury,
not murder.
Tevrizian dismissed the lawsuit,
but an appeals court reinstated it.
The court said a jury should de
cide whether the story neutralized
the headline.
Utah halts
movie “Mission”
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The
next Mission Impossible movie
may have to do without a para
chuting sequence off Utah’s Dead
Horse Point.
The state Parks and Recreation
Board rejected a request from the
producers of Mission Impossible 2
to film a parachute drop which
was to take place off the redrock
promontory overlooking the Col
orado River.
Paramount is urging the state
to change its mind.
Filming at Dead Horse Point is
set for October.
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