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...however, upfronts are our first glimpse at the new shows and emerging trends of next fall's schedule. (Or schedules. Still facing the possibility of an actors' strike by fall, the networks may have to keep backup skeds of reality shows under glass.) This week, I will endure the upfronts for you - the hubris! the speeches! the little chicken kabobs! - and give you the rundown on what fresh hell the networks have in store for us, complete with entirely unfair and probably incorrect snap judgments based on the few minutes of selected clips the networks screen for the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out Front of the Upfronts | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

Tanto is a former race car driver whose past failures haunt him as much as the scars he bears from the accident that ended his career, and almost his life. Now, his old boss Carl Henry wants him back, but only as a backup and blocker for the rookie sensation Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue). But Tanto’s old nemesis Brandenberg (Til Schweiger) is still determined to win the championship. Complicating matters is Bly’s budding romance with Brandenberg’s estranged girlfriend Sophia (Estella Warren). The film spends as much time exploring the psyches...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Driven’: The Legend of Speed | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...With the game well in hand in the final minutes, Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder turned to her bench and brought in freshman backup Laura Mancini to make her collegiate debut...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lacrosse Gains First Ivy Win Over Columbia | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin-inspired, she’s written songs with Johnny Marr of the Smiths (and sang backup for them) and “They Don’t Know” is pure 60s girl group, a late-1970s recrystallization of the Brill Building sound. Worth checking...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Mix | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Humility came to the President and to Bobby in the second dawn of the battle. Everything began to fall apart, including President Kennedy's nerve, and he would not allow backup U.S. forces to join the lopsided struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson John Kennedy Learned From the Bay of Pigs | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

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