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...into the people who were mean to them. Svelte TORI SPELLING won't attend the Beverly Hills, 90210 10-year high school--reunion show, airing on Fox May 11, because "she's moved on," her publicist says. Some press reports, however, have said the daughter of series creator Aaron Spelling is angry that Fox won't give her a pilot and bitter toward tempestuous former co-star Shannen Doherty, who is appearing on the program. The reunion will include interviews with Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, Doherty and others talking about their auditions and "what the show has meant for establishing...
...like Showtime's Soul Food, TV is averse to dramas that star African Americans. Even UPN, with its stable of "urban" comedies, mostly populates its dramas with white folk and the occasional Vulcan. Platinum would be notable simply for its casting, but its blackness goes deeper. Writer and co-creator John Ridley (Three Kings) has produced a story about the ascendancy of black pop culture in America, not only among black people, and the ironies that result when the art of the dispossessed goes mainstream. Ridley, who is black, is fascinated by the world of hip-hop but has proper...
...older brother, James A. Carmichael ’01; Tom Stoppard, the playwright; Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes; and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter...
DIED. ROBERT BOURQUE, 82, creator of Zoltan the Astrological Wizard, a mechanical fortuneteller that dispensed predictions at beachfronts and arcades before the age of electronic games; in Duxbury, Mass. The turbaned seer was the model for Zoltar, who turned Tom Hanks from a boy into a man in the 1988 movie...
...Mickey turned a cow's tail into a hurdy-gurdy handle, and it mooed music as he cranked away. Another bovine's teeth became a xylophone on which he beat out a tune. In short, Willie had what its more pretentious competitors lacked--energy and freedom. And its creator was on his way to fame, riches and immortality. --By Richard Schickel