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...other words, we have a new (and French) vertically integrated media behemoth. The small group of big companies - AOL Time Warner, Disney, Fox - fighting not only to produce but deliver their sports, music, movies, TV shows and "interactive programming" to the U.S. couch potatoes that love them has a new member. Just a year after swallowing Universal Studios (and its theme parks), the former French water utility now figures it's ready to, in the words of former Fox TV creator Diller, "compete in the first tier of entertainment...
...still love college football. It’s still the best game in the world because of everything it offers that no other sport does. Because of Saturdays spent on the couch with two buddies and a remote control. Because its fans are loyal and loud. Because bands play fight songs and fans rush the field...
...success of the Harry Potter movie is used as evidence that a bunch of muggles are ruining their children's ability to imagine for themselves what happens inside a book or tainting their desire to ever pick one up. Soon enough, the thinking goes, our kids will be terminal couch potatoes, unable to conjure up anything more adventurous than an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. This argument intensifies as the holiday movie season kicks into full gear with the Dec. 19 release of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in a $300 million trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien...
When not at the office, Antoinette likes to “flop” on the pillow-laden couch in her three-story Victorian home. Her three independent children are off doing their own thing at the moment, and her man is in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on tonight’s dinner. She and her husband have arrived at this happy place after taking the road much less traveled by. They are a non-traditional, gender-role swapping couple who don’t believe in following the rules. Antoinette found herself unmarried and pregnant with child...
...note resonates like a tuning fork for America. After putting down "Acme" 15 I opened a piece of junk mail soliciting satellite TV that began, "Bring joy into your life." The Wareian "gag" completed itself in my head: the dish on the window sill, and me alone on the couch in my underwear staring at Jessica Alba...