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...season. But you'll have to go to a museum to see it. When NBC axed the series in March--after shelving and relaunching it so many times viewers needed a divining rod to find it--the Museum of Television and Radio made the unusual offer to screen its six unaired episodes at its New York City and Los Angeles locations, on April 29 and May 13, respectively. As creator Paul Feig notes, the museum honored the show earlier at its annual William Paley Festival, an ironic comfort as the ratings flagged. "The running joke...
Craig, meanwhile, was still working. He had sent his client home to sleep and was still in his office with the TV on mute when around 5 a.m. he saw the rescue unfold on the screen. He jumped to the phone and called Bethesda, waking up Juan Miguel in his room at the residence of Fernando Remirez, head of the Cuban diplomatic mission to the U.S. "Turn on the TV! Turn...
...undergraduate novel of self-discovery and education, or Bildungsroman. I suppose it is possible to retain this tradition by writing the autobiography of a life parked before a computer screen. But how much flavor would be missing without the scene of the hero walking across campus alone on a winter night, his head uncovered, his jacket collar drawn tight about his neck, alone, hearing a violin play You'll Never Walk Alone in a practice room somewhere, alone, in the snow that turns to rain...
Such are the dangers of taking real life to the screen. Controversies over fact-based movies like The Hurricane, Boys Don't Cry and The Insider have got big ink in the past year, but Erin Brockovich's problems slid by almost unnoticed. Residents who received settlements back in 1996 were sworn to secrecy as part of the agreement, but now their sick neighbors are piping up. "I didn't want to go see the movie, but I did. Give me a break! What s___! They depicted the lawyers as so concerned about the residents," says Diane Zuniga, whose mother...
...their most recent usage agreement, Time Warner Cable and Disney arrived at an impasse Monday; Time Warner then called Disney's bluff, pulling the Mouse's ABC network from its programming roster. Time Warner Cable customers hoping to tune into "Good Morning America" were met with a blue screen and a scrolling message from Time Warner: "Disney has taken ABC Away From...