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...sized pop icon, the answer is simple. Golf needs to start stroking the American people better than it has in the past. Or else, one day the sport of golf will discover that Americans have responded to its unchanging ambivalence with "What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?" and changed the channel in favor of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" or "Walker, Texas Ranger...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Different Strokes for Golf | 4/13/2000 | See Source »

...alien costumes and set about annoying everyone in town. The aliens accosted pedestrians; the aliens faked public brawls; the aliens disturbed screenings with staged abductions; they shoved flyers for their movie in strangers' pockets. By midweek Crowley's aliens decided to crash a party for the Independent Film Channel, smuggling in a monitor and two subfunctional speakers under a trench coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...dual focus: the personal-life scenes are shot on film, police scenes on digital video. The digital scenes are jarring (part Blair Witch Project, part 1981-era Duran Duran video), but Levinson says they mimic the "voyeuristic kind of approach" of shows like Cops. Says Fontana: "You want [channel surfers] to stop and say, 'What the hell is that?'" That might also describe a typical Homicide fan's reaction to UPN mates like WWF Smackdown!, but entertainment president Tom Nunan says the show is a good match for UPN: "We do things a little differently, and that is Barry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fighting Inner Demons | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Last Friday, in a fit of desperation over our malfunctioning television--CBS was the only channel we didn't get--we went to Radio Shack to buy an antenna. Talking with the guy at the counter, we casually mentioned that we needed the antenna for the NCAA tournament. Then he mentioned that he went to school with a guy who eventually became a pretty famous basketball coach--Mike Jarvis, of St. John...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: Predict NCAA Basketball? You Must Be Mad | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

Whittle has been criticized as a sort of Music Man of Education Inc. Previously, he started an advertiser-sponsored classroom TV news program, Channel One, which was castigated for its mercenary approach. Whittle sold Channel One to Primedia in 1994. The for-profit school idea is less corporately tainted--it's not brought to you by Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School for Profit | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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