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...science "approachable, understandable and fun," says executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. CSI underscores its tech savvy with innovative visuals: a whooshing special-effects sequence whips you through a poisoning victim's veins. Then there's the novel, noirish location. "You go to Vegas to escape and become anonymous," says creator (and Vegas resident) Anthony E. Zuiker. "It's the perfect place for a crime drama...
...performs this week at New York City's Irving Plaza--a prelude to a comedy album of "dirty doggie songs." Next up: Crank Yankers, a raunchy puppet show from Comedy Central. The appeal? "Puppets can get away with a lot of nonsense live actors can't," says Triumph creator Robert Smigel. A few to watch...
Aficionados of the art form understand Hollywood's fascination with comic books. As Stan Lee, creator of such famous characters as Spider-Man and the Hulk, points out: "These stories are a chance to relive the feeling you had when you were young and dazzled by fairy tales filled with giants and monsters. And now we finally have the cinematic technology to do them justice." Lee's innovation was the creation of (his words) "superheroes with superproblems." Marvel Comics' film division CEO Avi Arad - one of the key players in the movie adaptations market - believes their humanity gives supermen...
...concerned, there were once three branches of government: lawyers, judges and hard-nosed cops who played by their own set of rules. Otherwise, government was ratings death. "The feeling was, once you got into Washington and politics," says Aaron Sorkin, creator-writer of The West Wing, "you knew your audience was going to be cut in half...
DIED. SYLVESTER (PAT) WEAVER, 93, pathfinding TV executive; former president of NBC; creator of the Today show; and father of actress Sigourney Weaver; of pneumonia; in Santa Barbara, Calif. After joining NBC in 1949, Weaver realized it could move beyond the production methods of radio--in which shows were owned and controlled by sponsors--and become an independent production and broadcast company. His vision is still enjoyed by millions seven days a week...