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...that the diluted sitcom treatment was a conscious choice for how to deal with the material, since the premise isn't original. The storyline, in which Chris O'Donnell inherits a lot of money on condition that he get married within 24 hours, is a remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton silent gem called Seven Chances. The put-upon bachelor first botches things with his steady girlfriend, then must propose to everyone he knows until a newspaper story phoned in by his friend brings a stampede of bridegowned fortune-seekers chasing him through town...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bachelor for Life: O'Donnell Flops Again | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...page, www.geocities.com/SoHo/6816, the home of his band, the Redundant Steaks. The group, which Vaux formed with three other classmates in his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, has produced four major projects to date. "Columbian Inventions" (a collection of songs in honor/protest of Columbus Day), "Buster Crabbe" (celebrating the life of the actor who played Tarzan, Superman, and other macho characters in early movies), "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The Twelve-Tone Rock Opera," "Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf" (an album boasting songs such as "Barbecue of Love" and "Petrified Vomit"), and "Petrified Barbecue" (greatest hits) all belong to the band...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Recovering from the first faceoff (Schor: 1, consumer culture: 0) the hype-buster targets her next victim. Just as our ears begin to readjust to the relatively soft hum of Harvard Square, we open the door to Pacific Sunwear, where the music is not quite as loud as its prep school-as-lifestyle neighbor-but could still sustain a pretty hopping nightclub...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...three years of development, however, Pixar's creative team woke up one morning last January to a sinking realization: the story just wasn't good enough. Lasseter stepped in full time as director to help his two younger co-directors. More than half the movie had to be redone. Buster the dog was added, as was Wheezy, the damaged penguin. Tensions rose as the workload increased. The company stock was on a yo-yo ride, with merchandise income from the $358 million megahit Toy Story trickling out and home video and merchandise sales from A Bug's Life ($362 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pixar Animation Studios: Home of the Toys | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...belief, it is indeed possible to take the bus in LA, not only that, it's possible to get to work on time too. Plus, if you're me, you get to spend some of your bus stop time gazing at the stars on the Hollywood Boulevard side-walk. Buster Keaton lives on for me each morning between...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Into the Valley, Riding the Bus | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

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