Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audiences are actually growing, the morning programs earn as much as half a billion dollars a year, led by Today, which just celebrated 200 weeks atop the ratings. (The shows are also valuable for shilling nightly newsmagazines, cable sister shows and other network siblings, as anyone who has seen cast members of Friends, Becker or NYPD Blue just happen to drop by around 8 a.m. can attest...
...full-fat cream cheese. In Chicago restaurants, the unpaunched are gorging on porterhouse steaks but banishing the baked potato back to Idaho. And Jennifer Aniston has been publicly chastised by her former trainer, who thinks Aniston's low-carb, high-protein diet is too extreme. When even the scrawniest cast members from Friends are on a diet, something is happening...
...definitions of a miracle and a Hollywood sleeper hit are not very far apart; both involve an extraordinary contradiction of what seems to be an ironclad natural order. Last week studio executives had a choice of interpretations as they cast their eyes over the weekend grosses. The No. 1 and No. 2 movies in the U.S. were, unsurprisingly, Fight Club and Double Jeopardy. But No. 10 was very unusual indeed. Not only had The Omega Code, by an unknown independent called Gener8Xion Entertainment, grossed $2.4 million in three days, but it had done so in a mere 304 theaters, yielding...
After spending six years and millions of dollars, Carlo produced only an inconclusive report offering no more than suspicions of health risks. Even so, 20/20 accepted it as medical fact. "We have direct evidence of possible harm from cellular phones," he told ABC's correspondent, who cast Carlo as an ultraethical scientist breaking ranks with his bosses because they wouldn't let him tell the truth...
...Crowe, of course. "I saw Wigand for two months in 1996, when he was shattered, frightened, in his darkest time," she recalls. "Yet this actor, after a day of golf, was able to intuit his throttled energy, his tension." Hollywood is equally impressed by the actor. Ridley Scott cast Crowe as the lead in next spring's Gladiator, and Taylor Hackford has just signed him to star opposite Meg Ryan in the romantic thriller Proof of Life...