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...better and worse, VTV provides something many sitcoms and dramas don't. Surprises, for instance. "It's like a baseball game," says Paul Romer, the Dutch executive producer and creator of Big Brother. "Even when the game isn't interesting, you wait and stay because the next hit could be a home run." True, arguments over who's hogging the rat meat are probably not what Aristotle had in mind when conceiving the Poetics. And producers can contrive conflict, such as Survivor's races and bug-eating contests, not to mention its million-dollar endgame. (Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: We Like To Watch | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, is co-founder of Global Business Network and author of The Clock of the Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Technology Moving Too Fast? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...other series and itself). It snipes at young, pretty tube stars yet casts young, pretty Katherine Towne as a teen troublemaker looking for her birth mother after her father has answered her inquiries with "M.Y.O.B." (mind your own business). Still, it's somewhat better than its overfamiliar ingredients. Creator Don Roos has distilled and sanitized the vicious humor of his film The Opposite of Sex for prime time. That which survives the translation makes for good, mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: M.Y.O.B. | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...July 12. Prefix with lock or knock 13. Gallery-funding org. 14. Mission: Impossible theme-composer Schifrin 15. Yemeni port 16. Former colleague of Mike and Morley 17. Home for an SS-18 18. Dance partner? 19. He had his 15 minutes of fame in '95 20. "Love Bug" creator de Guzman, who claimed it was released "by accident" 21. They've offered to begin disarming 23. Ludwig __ Drake 25. Run out of Time? 28. Two shakes 29. The House has extended the __ -tax moratorium for five years 32. Rodriguez, the president of 8-Across 33. He quipped to Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword May 29, 2000 | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...still young in the time when Albert, Creator of the Great Net, battled Prince W of Austin for dominion of the land. In those days we carried the first devices called PDAs, for Personal Digital Assistants, but some of us knew their power and in time called them Personal Downtime Annihilators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Shrugged | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

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