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...badly does Congress want to nix a national ID card? Not very. Late in the evening last Wednesday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) tried to yank spending for a Department of Transportation ID card proposal that would compel states to encode Social Security numbers (and possibly digitized fingerprints) into driver's licenses. Barr's ploy didn't work. Democrats defended the plan as a way to let immigrants prove they're citizens. Other Republicans suggested Barr try to forge a compromise with transportation bureaucrats, which he'll do in a meeting this week...
...president of worldwide marketing, notes that a teen movie may cost up to 50% less to advertise than a big summer film. Cost-efficient ads for Disturbing Behavior and Halloween: H20 are blanketing the kid-drams and cable music channels. "When you're marketing a teen movie," notes Bob Weinstein, the Miramax co-chair and boss of Dimension Films, which distributed the Scream epics, "MTV becomes your best friend...
...three Coen brothers films, Barry Sonnenfeld has had lots of experience with a genre you could call bizarre noir. Now he has created his first TV show, and it has--in milder form--the surreality and edge of his earlier work. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel, Maximum Bob stars Beau Bridges as a colorful, corrupt judge in a small Florida town. He's the kind of guy who will avoid paying his ex-wife alimony by putting her in jail. Amusing, smoothly put together and featuring a likable cast, this summer series augurs well for Sonnenfeld's next...
...Buffalo Bob Smith -- born Robert E. Smith -- died at his North Carolina home Thursday of lung cancer. He was 80. But to millions of baby boomers, the genial cowboy-suited host of "The Howdy Doody Show" will never pass away. Even though the NBC show went off the air in 1960 after 13 seasons and more than 2,500 shows, Buffalo Bob and the redheaded, freckle-faced marionette who loved to tease him remain an indelible memory from the Golden Age of TV. "No one knows how hard we worked all those years," Smith told PEOPLE in 1987. "Live...
...happy to say Steinbrenner deserves almost no credit for such ruthless (and Mantle-less) efficiency. This team is the brainchild of now departed general manager Bob Watson and has been gracefully deployed by its manager, the modest Joe Torre. It's been assembled from a veritable spare-parts bin of players: Hideki Irabu from Japan, Cuban emigre Orlando Hernandez, a few from trades and the free-agent rolls. Perhaps most remarkable is the provenance of Jeter, Williams and starting pitcher Andy Pettitte: Each came from the once suspect Yankees farm system...