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When singer Willie Nelson goes on the road, he often likes to tune in to a good western movie. Trouble is, he often searches the dial in vain. Nelson decided that if he wanted down-home TV, he should program it himself. Result: the Cowboy Channel. Scheduled to start in November, the 24-hour cable channel will feature rodeos, horse operas, country music and vintage TV series like Gunsmoke. Nelson will serve as the company's chairman and as host to a projected weekly music-and-talk show called Songwriter. He has already signed up cable systems with 4.2 million...
...hear him say "penis." Last year, in the guise of his comic superhero Fartman, he placed a call to Iran and mercilessly berated the poor Shi'ite who picked up the phone. Fans of shock-jock jokery highly prize this rude dude. Trouble is, anyone scanning the radio dial can accidentally alight on his malice. You can't put a lockbox on a radio...
...reason is not nostalgia but an effort to thwart drug dealers who use push-button phones as their command posts. The dealers, who typically wear pagers, can send and receive messages via touch-tone phones to clients and colleagues. But most pagers will not work in conjunction with dial phones. U S West Communications, a subsidiary of one of the regional phone companies, has replaced push-button pay phones with rotary models at 18 locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Neighbors and law-enforcement officials are delighted. "The rotary phones have stopped the drug traffic. We feel...
...Bwana Devil or the gore-splattered Creature from the Black * Lagoon. But what really killed 3-D in the '50s -- and in subsequent revivals in the '60s, '70s and '80s -- was not so much bad movies as bad 3-D. Even classics like Kiss Me Kate and Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder have effects that when seen in 3-D, tend to pull the eyeballs in directions that nature never intended. Successful 3-D movies require that two stereoscopic images be kept scrupulously aligned and in focus, and this technological challenge has virtually overwhelmed a generation of filmmakers...
...glad he used Dial...