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...managed to present a clear thesis that the functions of the universe and life are too specific to have been haphazardly created--and thus must have resulted from an intelligent creator...

Author: By Helen L. Limm, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Scientist Speaks About God | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

...American adolescence has been incomplete without a case of acne or a subscription to Mad magazine. This bright chronicle explains why the latter, at least, is true. While Alfred E. ("What -- Me Worry?") Neuman has watched two generations age, the sophomoric magazine has made the best of what its creator considered "a corrupt society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 30, 1991 | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

This book effectively demolishes any claims that women today are treated as equal citizens. Some of the stories she tells are horrific--doctors perform a Caesarian section on a dying woman against her will--while others are merely unsettling--the woman creator of thirtysomething has her script rejected repeatedly until her husband submits it under the name "Buck Trent...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: A Subtle Attack on Women | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...Angeles. Within a few years, he wrote and sold the script for Doin' Time on Planet Earth, a film about a teenager who thinks he's from outer space. After that, Star never looked back. Today, at 30, he draws a six-figure income as the creator of Beverly Hills, 90210, the Thursday-night melodrama that has captured the teen audience by portraying youthful angst and L.A. glitz. Star owns a house in the Hollywood Hills, drives a Porsche convertible, lifts weights and romps with his retriever at his Malibu beach hideaway. "I based 90210 on my experience coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How L.a. Captured Prime Time . . . and Turned It into a Platform For | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...nearly the whole half-hour. The concept "was entirely drawn out of my passionate relationship with my wife," says executive producer Peter Noah. "We have also had plenty of fights, and if I get my way, every one of them is going to end up on television." Don Reo, creator of Blossom, observes that many programs besides his own feature dysfunctional families headed by single fathers. "Most of them are created by guys who are divorced," says Reo, who for a time was a divorced father raising three children. He laughs. "The reason they do them must be wish fulfillment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How L.a. Captured Prime Time . . . and Turned It into a Platform For | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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