Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everybody has Allen's billions, of course, and right now nobody is making much money in the webzine biz. Analysts warn that most of the advertising is coming from the flaky side of corporate budgets: the "new media" departments of businesses anxious not to miss the Internet boat but still profoundly skeptical. If the ads don't generate product sales, they could quickly dry up. "A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught in the hysteria about the Web," says Karen Burka, an electronic-marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information...
...pursued that demographic more assiduously than Mr. Showbiz, a breezy, topical webzine catering to folks with a serious addiction to the entertainment industry. Conceived by former Spy publisher Tom Phillips, edited by former New York Post gossip queen Susan Mulcahy and lavishly bankrolled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Mr. Showbiz dishes up everything from the Scoop of the Day to a daily Hugh Grant poll (Should Elizabeth Hurley dump Hugh? Should prostitution be legal...
...drama based on the adventures of the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron, which first went into combat in April 1943 and eventually shot down 16 enemy planes, destroyed four more and damaged six others in just nine months. Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It), Allen Payne (New Jack City), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Outbreak) and Andre Braugher (TV's Homicide) play the much-decorated flyers. "Nothing compares to this," says Robert Williams, 73, an airman who sold the story concept to hbo after spending 43 years shopping it around Hollywood. "Not even flying 50 missions, shooting down...
...Noel C. Allen '95-'96, a Dunster House English concentrator and one of the poets in the workshop, said that she was "really impressed with the good turnout and how appreciative the audience...
...good, not awful, and most people know it. MAX ALLEN Toronto...