Word: debut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since their debut in 1940, cat-and-mouse combatants Tom and Jerry seemed as classic a pair of adversaries as David and Goliath -- only more violent. Yet in their first feature film, which is being released this week, the two put aside their traditional enmity and actually become partners. This is just one more example of a dismaying recent phenomenon: beautiful antagonisms turning into friendships...
...Home shopping, the ultimate in couch-potato marketing, seemed, at its cable- TV debut a decade ago, to be the natural successor to the shopping mall. But years of selling such schlock as silver bracelets and cubic-zirconia rings, plus a series of scandals, mired the medium at the low end of the retail business, even as it grew to gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring...
...heat he's capable of delivering, young Henry remains a Little Leaguer among the big leaguers -- shy, abashed at performing before vast crowds, befuddled by but eager to join in the adult male rituals of his teammates. There's a beamy gentleness about actor Daniel Stern's directorial debut (he also contributes a version of his klutzy Home Alone crook, this time playing an addled pitching coach), and there are finely tuned supporting performances by Amy Morton as Henry's mom and Gary Busey as a fading pitcher who takes the kid under his faltering wing...
Until now. Wilson scrubbed the release just a few weeks before the Sergeant Pepper debut. Why he did this has remained a subject of continued speculation and not a little mythmaking. But the centerpiece of this new, must-have, five- CD "anniversary collection" of classics and unreleased material is a 30- minute selection from the Smile sessions: unfinished, incomplete and glorious. The music is mystic, mad, wild and gentle, quite unlike anything anyone, including Wilson, had ever tried in pop before. The lyrics were as fleeting as a waking dream; the musical tracks were layered as if Wilson were...
...with its cinema verite immediacy, and the style-setting 60 Minutes), most of these shows seem interchangeable. Efforts to find gimmicks (a live studio audience on PrimeTime Live, for one regrettable example) have been mostly jettisoned in favor of the tried-and- true 60 Minutes formula. Before the March debut of Day One, executive producer Tom Yellin promised that the show would feature some longer stories and a mold-breaking format: "If our program is three pieces of the same length and then a light, short piece at the end, then we will have failed." After early shows drew criticism...