Word: execs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the venality and dim-wittedness of the TV business, despite the increasingly lame fall schedules it turns out every year. Never mind, because this satirical hour-long series about the shenanigans at a major network, LGT, is worth watching. There's even a beautiful, frighteningly ambitious development exec who would have got Faye Dunaway fired...
...legal strategy in the antitrust case seems to consist largely of proving AOL's worth as a once and future competitor in just about every digital arena. At a deposition two weeks ago, Microsoft put AOL's Steve Case on the rack over his business plans. Now AOL exec David Colburn will be called as a hostile witness. "They've put most of their chips on the AOL marker," says George Washington law professor Bill Kovacic. "They're stretching," laughs chief prosecutor David Boies...
Microsoft execs will no doubt see a darker purpose in such a probe, just as they cried conspiracy when AOL bought Netscape while both were witnesses for the prosecution. Microsoft is convinced that AOL is hiding under the government's antitrust skirts, and there's little Case can do that won't be viewed in Redmond through that prism. When AOL bought Netscape, why didn't it change its default browser from Microsoft's to Netscape's? So as not to weaken the antitrust case, says Microsoft. "When the trial is over," predicts an exec, "they're going to switch...
...logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself gets caught up in lies...
...OVER CASTING AGENTS: Getting auditions depends on currying favor with casting pros, who sift through thousands of head shots and videotapes. "I narrowed the field down to 20 girls, and Julia's natural, soulful quality stood out," says Francine Maisler, who cast Before Women Had Wings. Disney's casting exec Marcia Ross, who saw nearly 200 actresses for the 10 Things role, remarks, "You can see it onscreen--she projects an intelligent depth, she's not girlish, and she'll easily grow into adult roles...