S--- HITS THE FANS CBS bawdily goes where no net has gone before when Mark Harmon says "S--- happens" on Chicago Hope. With 11.9 million tuning in, CBS logs fewer than 50 complaints, and only four affiliates bleep the expletive. But sometimes s--- doesn't happen: Later that same evening, David Letterman is bleeped when he utters the word during his Top 10 "Other Ways CBS Is Pushing the Envelope."

OCT 16

CELLO GOODBYE Yo-Yo Ma hits a wrong note when he leaves his cello in the trunk of a New York City cab. But his taxi receipt--with the car's medallion number--helps authorities recover his prized Montagnana, made by Stradivari in 1733 and worth an estimated $2.5 million.

OCT 19

TAKING STOCK In initial public offerings, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia raises $149 million; the WWF pins $170 million. Proving? We dunno, in the ultimate stock market smackdown, big sweaty guys kick homemaker butt?

OCT 21

STAYIN' ALIVE The Broadway adaptation of Saturday Night Fever opens to scathing reviews. But critics fail to extinguish the disco inferno; before the bad press gets out, Fever dances its way to $20 million in advance ticket sales.

OCT 21

BUSH LEAGUE The George W. Bush bio Fortunate Son, in which anonymous sources claim the presidential hopeful was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession (a charge Bush has denied) and that his father had it covered up, is recalled by St. Martin's Press am

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