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News From Across the Pond

Aired May 24, 2002 - 10:56   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO: CNN ANCHOR: Don't worry nothing, new happening with the mountain lion. We have something more unusual to talk about.

CNN's Richard Quest is here to tell us about some odd doings back in London.

I'm sorry to introduce you that way, but you're so funny.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That mountain lion, hey? I mean, you know, gripping stuff, hey?

COSTELLO: You've come all the way from London to see a story about a mountain lion.

QUEST: Have we seen the lion?

COSTELLO: Yes.

QUEST: And you have the nerve to talk about odd goings-on in Britain.

Look, the mere fact we have a family at the moment, complete strangers, who all came together after an Internet search to live for six days in the windows of Harrods department store.

COSTELLO: Really? You mean live life in every aspect?

QUEST: This is them doing their morning exercises. They spend their entire day. They say that they get the biggest crowds when they eat. You don't see anything unsavory going on. At nighttime they go to a hotel. It's all a promotion for a company that's making electronic goods. And you say we don't know how to live, and you're sitting here watching a lion with his head shoved through a fence.

COSTELLO: OK. Point taken. Hey, the hot show. Let's talk about something hot now, Madonna in that play.

QUEST: This is interesting, I promise you, because first of all, I can't get a ticket. Nobody can get a ticket. They're going for $300-$400 a seat. Secondly, she's decided not to do matinees. We think she may be...

COSTELLO: Oh, pregnant.

QUEST: Well, we think; we don't know.

COSTELLO: Hey, it's on the cover of "Star" magazine here in the States.

QUEST: She may be...

COSTELLO: Pregnant.

QUEST: There we are, you heard it here first.

But what's really important is every time she comes on stage, she gets a standing ovation, and they've basically, they have the critic's nights, they say she's not bad, she's not brilliant, it's an OK performance. Now it's open to the public.

If you're going to London, don't get your hopes up. The tickets are going for $200 or 300 plus and you don't stand a chance of getting in.

COSTELLO: That's a shame.

Richard Quest, thanks for stopping by. We have enjoyed it, and stick around for the ending of our mountain lion story.

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