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...three weeks ago by the Fox network, is perhaps the ultimate example of disposable television. Along with its lighter-than-air morning show and a slate of oh-so-familiar / network reruns (Hart to Hart, Batman, Family Affair), the channel features a pet show, a consumer guide to rock CDs and a collectibles program. If it weren't for a Nightline-style interview show hosted by former CBS correspondent Jane Wallace, the network would be so insubstantial that it might float away...
...dozen peacocks strut nervously along the garden wall. Inside the house -- a spacious three-story villa of chandeliers and Art Deco furnishings -- papers and clothing litter the floor, presumably from a search for cash or documents. But most of the former First Family's belongings are still here: CDs of Beethoven and the sound track of the film Moonstruck, sterling-silver tea settings, an embroidered cushion presented by another former dictator, Nigeria's Ibrahim Babangida. Greetings from Pope John Paul II and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, among others, are proudly displayed on shelves. In a teenager's room...
...first glance, software piracy seems no different from that of any other copyrighted material. Chinese factories stamp out copies of American music CDs by the millions. Pirated American movies regularly appear in Asia and Africa long before their official release on video. (The objects that sometimes crawl across the bottom of the screen turn out on close inspection to be the heads of theater patrons inadvertently videotaped by the bootleggers...
Matt and I are sitting in his bedroom on thesecond floor of the Fat Day House; there are pilesof clothes and CDs on the floor, and a cat issitting in the window...
...always want to hear some music," Matt says,pushing around a pile to CDs. "Oftentimes I don'teven know what I want to listen to." Matt has 500CDs. "I have a hard time picking out music." Hedecides on a disc of the Peking Opera Company. "Igot this at Briggs and Briggs. They have a lot ofweird music there...