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Cairo University freshman Ayman Fouad has been glued to al-Jazeera, the Qatari satellite channel, for much of the past three weeks. In the beginning, he cheered on Iraqi fighters as they battled U.S. and British forces. Suddenly, he found himself watching images of American troops riding tanks into Baghdad, helping Iraqis pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein. "I couldn't believe my eyes," Fouad says. But then, he says, he realized what was really happening. "The Americans paid these people," he asserts. "Saddam is tricking the Americans. He will fight them until he kicks them...
Drive. "I'm just obsessing about getting my license," says the star of Lizzie McGuire, a hit on the Disney Channel and ABC's Saturday mornings. "That's all I think about. I'm counting down the days." She really is. She knows she has about...
Rich Ross, Disney Channel's president of Entertainment and a former programming sachem at Nickelodeon, is more emphatic. "Kids' TV is where you find the stars, not of tomorrow, but of today," he avers. "Movie directors don't need casting tapes anymore; they just need to turn on the TV. This is a golden age--Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland...
...about the kids today," Ross says, "is that they can act exactly the age they are. That's the throwback to Mickey and Judy putting on a show. Today kids put on a show every day, and millions come to watch." Ross is referring to Nick and the Disney Channel, two of cable's major revenue and talent streams. But he and others are convinced that the stars--and, more important, their fans--can meet in the movie theaters. "Those are people who are likely to leave their house and go and buy tickets," says Stan Rogow, who produced...
...best teams in any sport usually manage to strike that delicate balance between young, unproven talent and tested veterans who provide the squad’s backbone and channel the collective effort in the direction it must go in order to yield success...