Word: faves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these directors are defining...
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, publisher of PC Magazine -- fave of DOS dweebs -- was bought for $1.4 billion by Forstmann Little & Co, a New York investment firm run by high profile banker Ted Forstmann. Included in the deal is the giant publishing arm of Ziff Communications, which includes other magazines like MacWeek and Family PC, as well as Ziffnet, an on-line service. It's a move by Forstmann, a shrewd dealmaker, to keep pace with rival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which controls New York magazine and other media properties, says TIME associate editor Thomas McCarroll. "They have had this rivalry...
...jump at every chance to show they're on the cutting edge of both media culture and digital communications. The Link advertises itself on the bottom of many pages as "LINK digital mag." One blurb reads: "Want to read more reviews, tour dates, release schedules, vote for your fave new CD?" Another urges readers to "Be the mag at 317-465-9455...or spin us some messages at editor@linkmag.com (And if you're playin' in the band, send us your tunes...