Word: contentment
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...content with his own unlikely act of self-creation, Moby has applied himself to reimagining the summer concert tour. Area: One, his dazzling, multigenre, multiact music festival, took to the road in Atlanta last week with the laudable goal of attracting not just a core demo of Bic-flicking heavy-metal geezers or profoundly dilated techno kids but everyone: teens, adults, blacks, whites--just plain music fans, in the old-timey sense...
...things worse. Then the company lowered the boom, firing 49 pilots without warning?many of them union members, and some of them top organizers of the labor protest?while simultaneously tucking a 9% raise into the paychecks of their remaining colleagues a year before current work agreements expire. Not content with brandishing the stick and offering some carrots, Cathay also chartered 17 planes, with pilots, to show its own flyboys it could do without them...
...Nick at Nite franchise, has increased tenfold in the past five years by offering shows like The Donna Reed Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when...
...unlike yesterday's local stations running Mayberry RFD, cable networks offer not just content but context. TV Land offers trivia nuggets and behind-the-scenes stories as well as "retromercials," the vintage commercials it airs every hour. A few days after Lemmon died, Game Show Network aired a marathon of his little-seen 1950s appearances on What's My Line? Amid the garish capitalist thunderdomes of today's prime-time game shows, seeing an urbane Lemmon and publisher Bennett Cerf trade quips in tuxes was a mini-lesson in changed American mores. "There was a real New York sophistication...
...BARRY WILLIAMS Brady boy catches heat for performing in scab production of The Sound of Music. Fans worry he may tarnish the sterling Brady Bunch name MICHAEL JOHNSON Network of the World chieftain still owes at least $6.2 million to newspaper heiress. His offer to pay in streaming broadband content is rejected ROBERT ILER Teenage "Soprano" arrested for mugging two Manhattan tourists. Somewhere, Corey Feldman is nodding; he understands...