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...took a while, but people are catching on to the secret of the Academy Awards: for three hours every star in Hollywood works for free. These days they're working overtime. The B-list Golden Globes now get breathless TV coverage to rival the Oscars, and even the Broadcast Film Critics Association has landed a seven-year cable deal for its Critics' Choice awards. Still to come: the Screen Actors Guild Awards (March 10) and the Independent Spirit Awards (March 23). How do the Oscar folks feel about all this? Asked about the latest entry in the awards parade--those...
...painted on their town, wished it would all be canceled; students petitioned that their school be closed for security reasons. The athletes, like the rest of us, were disturbed, distracted; a couple had lost relatives in the attacks. NBC was worried that its $545 million investment for broadcast rights might be wasted, and started polling to see if anyone planned to watch...
...release of the tape, which came a week after the broadcast of a seized al-Qaeda video detailing a bombing plot in Singapore, was a chilling reminder of the terror network's destructive aims and the elusiveness of its operatives. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the U.S. has launched an international manhunt for the five and asked the public to help "identify, locate and incapacitate" them. A senior U.S. official told TIME that the tapes were first viewed by CIA specialists, who passed them along to the FBI. Officials at both agencies were so convinced the tapes showed evidence...
...first thing to get used to with XM is all the new channels. While you still get regular broadcast stations via antenna, there are 100 XM channels; about a third are commercial free. These stations are transmitted from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, so in theory you could listen to the same station from Seattle to Miami. While the XM offerings include radio versions of network fare like CNBC, ESPN and MTV, there are dozens of original music stations created by XM's staff...
...that should bin Laden be called to paradise, there will be plenty of Muslim extremists left on earth to help carry out other evil acts. And did bin Laden's honored Saudi Arabian guest know he was taking part in a conversation that was being taped and might be broadcast worldwide? Probably not until he saw it on television. Such is bin Laden's perfidy. YVONNE FRAUENFELDER Santa Rosa, Calif...