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In the news
Compiled from Times wires Sex and the City will end after its sixth season, with the final episode airing early next year.The Emmy-winning comedy will stretch its sixth season over two years, HBO announced Tuesday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles. Twenty episodes will begin production in March. Twelve will be broadcast this summer and the rest starting in January 2004. HBO didn't entirely shut the door to more episodes, however. "All the principals involved felt that this was a strong place to go off," said Carolyn Strauss, HBO's executive vice president in charge of original programming. "If somewhere along the line they change their mind and feel that they could do more of this, it would be fantastic." The show stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon as 30-something women yearning for sex, love and the perfect footwear in New York City. Tampa man buys Elvis' pianoWhen it comes to pianos, Elvis Presley isn't the king -- but he's close. A white grand piano once used by Elvis to jam with "The Killer," Jerry Lee Lewis, sold this week to the tune of $685,000. That's more than the 1999 auction price of $662,500 for Marilyn Monroe's baby grand piano but less than the $2.1-million paid in 2000 by British pop star George Michael for the piano on which Beatle John Lennon composed the song Imagine. Memphis guitarist and music producer Robert A. Johnson and partner Larry Moss sold the Knabe grand piano Monday to a Tampa music producer who hopes to put the piano on a casino-sponsored promotional tour, then turn it into an exhibit in a proposed Don Kirshner rock museum in Disney World. Michael Muzio, chairman of Blue Moon Group Inc. in Tampa, also acquired Johnson's Memphis Music label. The sale also included several other pieces of rock memorabilia, including an Elvis guitar. Muzio said he paid a total of $1.3-million for the properties. The sale came the same week as Elvis's 68th birthday celebration. His birthday was Wednesday.
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