Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough way to make a living, but that suits Drudge, 30, just fine. The son of a lawyer and a social worker, he worked his way into the celebrity-gossip business from the bottom--the CBS gift shop at Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...
CONNIE CHUNG She's available That thing with Former CBS Evening (DreamWorks just Newt Gingrich's mom. News co-anchor canned her talk show with husband Maury Povich)--and likable...
Just in case we haven't sussed out the metaphor from dozens of other movies and books devoted to romanticizing Cosa Nostra, Mario Puzo's The Last Don, a six-hour mini-series (beginning May 11, 9:00 p.m. E.T., CBS) based on the author's best-selling 1996 novel, is here to remind us that the Mob functions no more or less rapaciously than any corporation or government, and at least its employees know a good prosciutto when they see one. Hollywood studios are run by vicious souls, the movie tells us; politicians are a meretricious and evil-thinking...
Boffo television. But there may be less controversy here than meets the CBS Eye. The murder case was 10 years old. The protocols, though never implemented by the Cleveland Clinic, are used elsewhere and are supported by Dr. Hans Sollinger, president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. A 1996 study of 500 hospitals found that about a third of the institutions that responded used cardiac-dead donors, some presumably injected with organ-preserving drugs. Cardiac dead used to be the most dead you could be. It wasn't until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard...
...Files, the X Games, the fX network, and Gen X. But X, alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins the top-rated television series ER, the popular magazine Entertainment Weekly (widely called EW), cbs's highly praised series EZ Streets, the irreverent E! Entertainment Television, the resurgent E. coli bacteria and the favored form of communication of the cognoscenti, E-mail, plus its multifarious electronic spin-offs, e-cash, e-commerce, et al. Can the e.e. cummings revival...