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...Internet, the challenge faced by NBC and Zucker is their most serious in at least a decade. Not only has the once geriatric CBS raced to the top of the network pack with its powerful CSI franchise, but perennial also-ran ABC has the season's sole breakout hits, Lost and Desperate Housewives, a steamy evening soap that Zucker passed on. If the ratings slide continues, it could put a dent in NBC's well-cultivated image as the upscale network of choice for Madison Avenue and make it hard for NBC to match the record $2.9 billion...
This has to be the week that the Bulldogs’ struggling offense gets on track. Everyone has been waiting for quarterback Alvin Cowan to have a truly Playstation-like performance. Running back Robert Carr has proven that his early season breakout wasn’t a fluke, as he sits second in the league in rushing yards per game. Yale has the top wide receiver tandem, in terms of combined yards per game, in the Ivy League—even better than Harvard’s Mazza-Edwards combination...
Captain Chris Wu, who had struggled during much of the fall after a breakout junior year, led the Crimson with 73-70-143. Wu, who won the Toski Invitational last year, finished in second place, just two strokes off the pace...
...whose dinner parties combust into uncivil wars. Bacri and Jaoui have written six films together, but it was 2000's warm comedy Le Goût des Autres (The Taste of Others) - in which a disillusioned businessman falls for an actress and her bohemian lifestyle - that proved their breakout hit, winning four César awards and an Academy Award nomination. Their latest (and Jaoui's second turn behind the camera after The Taste of Others) is Comme une Image (Look at Me), the story of Lolita, an awkward young woman, and her father, Etienne, a self - obsessed celebrity author...
...says this with no rancor; he believes white actors have it tougher because "there's so damn many of them.") He read for the Rod Tidwell role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise (for which Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice Sean (P. Diddy) Combs threw like a girl--nothing changed. "After Any Given Sunday--I'm not kidding--I got a script called The Next Hot Negro. The. Next. Hot. Negro...