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...Spaces history came when he redid a living room for a Seattle couple who asked that he not alter the wife's beloved brick fireplace. It was like waving a maroon, dark green and oatmeal flag in front of a bull. "'Don't paint the fireplace!'" he recalls. "Fine. I won't paint the fireplace." He built a screen around it instead, and the wife duly burst into tears. "[The screen] wasn't earth shattering," he insists. "But her shrieks were...
Such battles reflect the subsurface tensions that make Spaces addictive. For all the talk about the democratization of design--via Martha Stewart, Michael Graves, the Apple iMac--in tract-house America, fluorescent light panels and hastily bought throw pillows are still doing just fine. When the show's hip, urban designers invade the homes of their more conservative charges, it's Karim Rashid meets Laura Ashley, State and Main with slipcovers. A traditional how-to show says your home is an expression of your personality. Trading Spaces says your home is an expression of your personality--and not everybody likes...
...equipment and lack of programming. At last month's meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, the anti-HDTV forces worried aloud about piracy of satellite-transmitted high-def movies and even questioned whether the technology would ever work. Cuban, whose technology works just fine, retorts that movie studios are running around like Chicken Little and should be more worried about capturing a market that Cahners In-Stat expects to hit 7 million to 8 million homes by 2004. The tiny audience he has today doesn't faze Cuban. "It's like saying how many people used...
Cuban is perhaps best known as the wild-eyed team owner who keeps lambasting basketball referees and getting fined. In January the NBA assessed Cuban the largest fine in its history--$500,000--for saying of the head of NBA officiating: "I wouldn't hire him to manage a Dairy Queen." Challenged by the company to manage a DQ for a day, Cuban gamely showed up at 6 a.m. to learn how to curl soft ice cream, then hustled to serve the 1,000 fans in line. Cuban briefly recruited basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman, inviting him to live...
Michelle Biederman has dropped by for a pop before work. "We may as well do the acne scars too," says Dr. Robert Weiss, as he positions the firing end of his Cool Touch laser in a bed of fine lines just below her right eye. Pop! goes the laser, emitting a pulse of invisible light and a white puff of subzero cooling spray. Biederman feels something like the snap of a rubber band. After Weiss blasts the wrinkles under the right eye, he does the left. By the time he gets to the acne scars on her chin, her right...