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...Other impresarios were also harsh in their assessment. "In the Met's place, I would have done exactly the same," said Hugues Gall, newly appointed head of the Paris Opera. "In the 1920s the director of the Met, Gatti-Casazza, used to deal firmly with even greater stars, like Caruso. But Caruso wasn't as crazy as Miss Battle seems...
...traffic builds and the billboards go up, some Internet veterans are mourning the old electronic freeway. "I feel kind of sad about it," says Denise Caruso, editorial director of Friday Holdings, a publisher specializing in new media. "It was such a dynamic, pulsing thing. I wonder whether we shouldn't have left it alone." Others see the period of uncertainty ahead as a rare opportunity for citizens to shape their own technological destiny. "We need . . . a firm idea of the kind of media environment we would like to see in the future," warns Howard Rheingold in his new book...
...book denies some things, it remembers all -- helpful if you are forever on display and on trial. In vivid detail (Mussolini looks "like a Caruso in uniform"), the book unfolds with the archetypal figures and engorged emotions of silent films ("You must be my mistress," Goebbels implores; "I need you -- without you my life is a torment!"). A fascinating political and personal history, the book could make an enthralling movie...
...crackling good TV show, probably Bochco's best since Hill Street Blues. Better than Hill Street in some ways: sleeker, more focused, less distracted by those often annoying comic interludes. Instead of a Hill Street-style ensemble cast, the show revolves around two characters: detective John Kelly (David Caruso), a red-haired department veteran going through a painful divorce, and Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), his hotheaded, battle-fatigued partner. Some of Bochco's devices have become too facile and familiar (the shaky, hand-held camera; a major character who takes six slugs at point-blank range and survives miraculously...
...catches on, the lines between home and office, already badly blurred, could begin to disappear. How will employees feel when their boss, tracking them down to some beachside resort, starts issuing orders and leaving angry messages on their computer? "Telescript is like an incredibly powerful computer virus," says Denise Caruso, editor of a newsletter called Digital Media. "I don't know how many people understand the seriousness of what you might be able...