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...soul of AOL's newly empowered machine may turn out to be Scott McNealy, the brilliant, voluble CEO of Sun Microsystems. McNealy has been flacking his "the network is the computer" vision for years, pitching his Web-focused Java language as the platform on which to build a new generation of cheap, single-purpose network appliances, from TV set-top boxes to cell phones, that could finally break Microsoft's stranglehold on the digital universe. His deal with AOL--which also puts Sun's 7,000-strong sales force to work selling Netscape's e-commerce software--marks the official...
MARCY CARSEY and TOM WERNER, two of television's most prolific producers (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Roseanne) are proud to be "charter members" of the TV generation. Who better than they to tell you about David Sarnoff, the brilliant man who founded NBC and put that addictive device in your living room...
Even in an industry noted for brilliant eccentrics, Jobs couldn't last. A notoriously erratic manager (he never bothered to write a budget, and he categorized employees by their "bozo bit," set at either 0 or 1), he was ousted in 1985 in a Cupertino palace coup by his own sugar-water...
...more profitable to compare this latest incarnation of the genre to another dark comedy, one trashed by critics and rejected by the public: The Cable Guy. Perhaps only myself and a few other moviegoers, most of them residing in attics or asylums, think that The Cable Guy was a brilliant film. Nonetheless, it's a useful point of comparison for what a dark comedy should try to be, and what makes Very Bad Things a failure...
...title disappears and all that remains is the title itself. In a few years we are left with nothing but the class ranking, the MVP award or the Oscar. The perhaps undeserving recipient of the honor is forever referred to casually as "So-and-so, yeah, he's a brilliant lawyer, he graduated first in his class at Yale, may make a fine Supreme Court Justice." And then the title forever carries a currency that it never should have carried in the first place. The institution's power grows, and the authority of truth diminishes...