THE senseless high-stakes auction of the merged RJR Nabisco was seen as one of the most glamorous episodes on Wall Street in the decadent late 1980s; the sensible decision to demerge has been greeted with a yawn.
One of the best was his contribution to Boccaccio 70 (1962), even if it was eclipsed by the more glamorous, starrier episodes directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti.
This rating matched the previous episode, "The Glamorous Life", for the lowest rating for an individual episode of Desperate Housewives in series history.
It was the lowest rating for an individual Desperate Housewives in the series' history, a distinction it held only two weeks until the subsequent episode, "The Glamorous Life", drew even poorer ratings.
But now there crept in a dark episode, decidedly less glamorous, though spectacular enough, and which must be chronicled in order to appreciate more fully the second chapter of the golden harvest.
Some of the show-business types might have been attracted mainly by the palm trees and the beach and the exotica of the Latin drug industry: the opening shots of each "Miami Vice" episode are so glamorous that some local tourist-development people have been quoted in the Herald as saying that the over-all impact of the series is positive.
Backstage at T in the Park at the pop-up mobile hairdressing salon brings this episode to a glamorous conclusion.
However, it held that distinction only two weeks before "The Glamorous Life", and the subsequent episode "Lovely", received even lower ratings.
However, it held that distinction only two weeks before "The Glamorous Life", and the subsequent episode "The Chase", received even lower ratings.
(Mr. Ferrara saves a particularly mocking surprise for the end of this episode). The role, which isn't glamorous, is free of artifice in a way that Madonna's screen roles seldom are.
