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...baseball play-offs and World Series, the NCAA basketball tournament and the 1992 and '94 Winter Olympics -- though for sums that have been criticized as exorbitant. Some industry watchers contend that CBS, under president Laurence Tisch, is flailing for direction. But Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer insists that the big sporting events, along with a push for more adventurous programming, will help recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot anymore launch shows that simply repeat yesterday's viewing patterns," says Stringer. "That's something we learned the hard way this year." Any other lessons will have...
...Crazy Mountains and left a confectionary dusting on the hills and gullies of Montana's West Boulder valley. Atop his horse, Thomas McGuane is silent for a moment as he surveys the Turkish carpet of prairie juniper, sage, buckbrush and wheatgrass that blankets his 3,700- acre ranch in Big Sky country. "It's funny," he says at last, "but you never know where lightning will strike. You're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall...
...free- floating angst and male brinkmanship set in the Florida Keys. Ninety-Two was nominated for a National Book Award, and McGuane became, in the words of ^ Saul Bellow, "a kind of language star." Critics compared the 34-year-old author to Faulkner, Hemingway, Chekov and Camus. The big time -- and Tinseltown -- beckoned. McGuane became a celluloid hotshot, penning scripts for Rancho Deluxe and Tom Horn among other movies. In exchange for writing 1976's The Missouri Breaks, which starred Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, he was given the chance to direct the screen version of Ninety...
...detective plot borrows classic elements from the likes of The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye: a missing girl (Rachel York) who turns up, clad only in a sheet and beckoning for comfort, on the detective's flophouse bed; the sultry wife of a rich, infirm old man, who fibs as automatically as other people breathe; the detective's torch-singer ex-girlfriend, now reduced to offering more private entertainments; and a spooky guru bilking the faithful. Librettist Larry Gelbart cheerily exploits these cliches without sneering at the genre. In telling the Hollywood side of the story, however...
...cardboard sign with an arrow showing Okoye which way to run. During his three years on the Azusa team, the Nigerian scored 33 touchdowns and won a berth in the 1987 Senior Bowl, where he scored four times. N.F.L. scouts were soon on to Okoye's case. "He's big, strong and fast," says Mihon, "but there's more to it than that. There's the quickness, the agility and the young body...