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Different media have different demands too. The kid market is big business on TV, with full-time factories like Nickelodeon, ABC Family and the Disney Channel churning out moppet entertainment. Nickelodeon has 14 scouts traveling the country trying to find the next young stars. But the show-biz sass that works on sitcoms may look grotesque on the big screen. Those reflexes anticipate what a director wants, when maybe what he wants is to be surprised. "You don't want some actor child who does everything perfectly and doesn't have a childlike aura," says Campbell Scott, who directed...
...size of the media circus at the corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets yesterday. “A comment that may or may not have been sexist has 17 camera crews on it,” said an incredulous David Buswell-Wilde, a cameraman for the Boston-area ABC affiliate WCVB Channel...
This year's Academy Awards telecast can be grateful for at least one thing: it doesn't have to compete against Desperate Housewives. ABC's sexy soap has already beaten the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the People's Choice Awards in the ratings so far this year. And with the Oscarcast dropping steadily in the ratings over the past few years (to a low of 33 million viewers in 2003, though last year it showed a slight uptick) and a lack of big box-office hits among this year's nominees, the stage seems set for another ratings fizzle...
...Oscar show is preempting Housewives on ABC, and producer Gil Cates has made a number of changes aimed at goosing the ratings. Several seem cribbed from an MTV Video Music Awards show. For one thing, Oscar's stage will extend into the audience. The aisles will become performance space, and some winners will give their acceptance speeches next to their seats...
While car sharing is a concept that's catching on fast, old-fashioned carpooling has always faced an uphill grind. In a survey about traffic problems by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, 84% of those who drive to work say they still go it alone. More than half of those lone riders insist that carpooling is just too inconvenient, and 18% say they simply don't know anyone to share a ride with...