Word: networked
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...Oscar for Best Actress. But studio chief Ron Meyer will doubtless be sent packing by Vivendi, which reportedly plans to replace him with Pierre Lescure, chairman and CEO of Canal Plus. Messier must also decide what to do with Seagram's 45% stake in Barry Diller's USA Network, which has cable channels and film- and TV-production facilities. Diller has feuded with Bronfman since the Seagram heir scotched Diller...
...tantrum, embarrassment and moral lapse. TV and media critics are conditioned to believe that once people start entertaining themselves by spying on others, we are just scant moments away from grandma porn and ABC's Monday Night Stoning. (You could base a drinking game on how often the Colosseum, Network and Orwell come up in discussions of VTV.) Stuart Fischoff, professor of media psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, cheerfully admits to enjoying Survivor but adds, "The downside that does concern me is the need to get more excessive and extreme. Let's try a public execution...
...Iron Chef, the Japanese TV show that has become a hit for the Food Network, a challenger is sent into a Thunderdome-esque "kitchen stadium," where he or she competes against one of four Iron Chefs (who specialize in Japanese, French, Chinese and Italian cooking--although they all basically cook Japanese food). The two contestants are given an hour to prepare a meal in which each course must focus on a single ingredient that they don't know ahead of time. A panel of judges gorge themselves while delivering criticism to the chefs' faces, and then determine a winner...
...only a little shocking that a good-size portion of the audience at a recent New York City taping of the show was rooting against Manhattan chef Bobby Flay, a man who makes Bill Gates seem humble. Flay, who has his own series on the Food Network, was chosen to represent the U.S. in a special episode that will air June 25 at 10 p.m. E.T., and that marks the Japanese show's trip to America. Things didn't go well for the owner of the Southwestern-influenced Mesa Grill. "You ever see pro wrestling?" he said after the match...
Although he holds office hours about once per month, he rarely steps into College affairs, preferring to allow underlings to handle all crises and many long-term matters, from murder-suicides to protests to public service reform. Even on a campus of roaming ethernet network connections, Rudenstine does not have an e-mail account...