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Florida Keys Real Estate For Sale
Screen Listings for the week of Wednesday, November 8 2006 thru ...
A rather disappointing documentary following comedian, author and political commentator Al Franken as he attempts to get a fledgling talk-radio program off the ground in the face of antagonism from right-wing pundits. Some of the improv is hilarious, but the fact that Franken loses as many of his verbal battles as he wins takes the steam out of the production and leaves it a flat, overlong and somewhat embarrassing film for audience members on either end of the political spectrum. JAMES WALLING. Cinema 21. *NEW* Babel I have a terrible crime to confess: I walked out of Babel approximately 30 minutes from the end. I've never done this before, and I hope never to do it again, but after two hours of cringe-inducing, gratuitous violence, punctuated with child pornography and blatant nihilism, I threw all professional considerations and respect for decorum aside in a mad dash for the exit sign.
Six Flags Receives Bids That May Disappoint Investors (Update4)
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Six Flags Inc., seeking to reduce its $2.2 billion of debt by selling theme parks, received bids for the properties that may fall short of investors' expectations, two people briefed on the matter said. Buyout firm MidOcean Partners and theme-park operator Herschend Family Entertainment Corp. offered less than $650 million for the six locations, said the people, who declined to be identified because the process is private. Real estate investor CNL Financial Group offered at least $650 million, one of the people said. Six Flags, the second-largest U.S. theme-park operator with 30 properties, may need $800 million to sufficiently lower debt ratios, according to analysts including Merrill Lynch & Co.'s John Maxwell. Chairman Daniel Snyder, who owns the Washington Redskins professional football team, is trying to cut the debt load and reverse a 20 percent drop in Six Flags stock this year.
Downsizing dreams delayed
Denise Acampa, 54 and divorced, knows precisely what to do when she buys her Boston condominium. She will try a different North End restaurant every week, meet her girlfriends for cosmopolitans, and frequent the theater. With her youngest child nearing graduation at Harvard College, Acampa is gung-ho about recapturing a lifestyle relinquished in 1982 for a husband, two children, cats, and a 42-foot swimming pool in her back yard. "When the kids come along, you live at soccer fields and baseball diamonds," said Acampa, who paid $35,000 last spring to reserve a corner loft in the Broadluxe condo project downtown. "Now my activities are going back to the city." One thing stands in the way of her empty nester's dream: a three-bedroom house in Saugus on the market since August.
Local engagements, weddings, anniversaries: Nov. 5
Pete and Vicki Weis of Redwood Falls, Minn., announce the engagement of their daughter, Tara, to Barry Pearl, son of Bob Pearl of St. Louis and Susan Pearl of Naples. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Redwood Falls High School and St. Thomas University. She is a PeopleSoft Developer for Time Warner Cable. The prospective groom is a graduate of Ladue High School and Indiana University. He is a project manager for Time Warner Cable. The wedding is planned for April 28, 2007, at Marriott's Marco Island Resort. Wedding: Buscemi — Norton Amanda Buscemi and Matthew Norton were married by the Rev. Richard Muller on Oct. 7 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. A reception at the Club at the Strand Golf and Country Club followed. The bride, daughter of Michael and Elaine Buscemi of Naples, is a graduate of Barron Collier High School and a student at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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