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...tricked by a butterfly ballot. This year--resolving a cliffhanger set up by Sorkin--Wing gave us John Goodman as a G.O.P. House Speaker (stepping in for Bartlet after his daughter was kidnapped), who was inspiring, even noble, and the new Vice President (Gary Cole) is a wily, underestimated foil to Bartlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Extreme Makeovers | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...media-research firm Screen Digest. As for how to cash in, the BBC charter says nothing about having to give away the goods overseas. So while Web viewers in Britain will be able to watch gratis, BBC viewers abroad may have to pay up--assuming the BBC can foil large-scale file swapping. "The government's sure to force them to do this," says Peter White of Rethink Research, a Britain-based digital-media-research company. White thinks a global broadband audience could eventually eliminate the BBC's need for British public funding. The Beeb, he says, "is only just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Broadband Bank | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...their answer: No. Sorry, folks, but this isn’t a rhetorical question like “How much violence is too much?” or “When do we stop marketing this as a music video and start selling it in a foil wrapper alongside Playboy’s Women of Reality TV?” There is a definite answer, and it’s definitely negative...

Author: By Dan Gilmore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: View from the Pop | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

Besides the standard party-room essentials like the Beirut table and beer funnel, the Cabot suite librarians have equipped their room with a “library lounge,” which is a second large common room wall-papered with tin foil and blue and red construction paper accents. With dimmed lighting and accessories like incense, a Lite-Brite and old-school Super Mario Brothers played to the sounds of classical symphonies, the room is decidedly trippy. “We want people to be able to do whatever they want to do in here, whatever their inspiration leads...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan and Cornelia L. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Room With A Crew | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

Like a prime Sturges comedy, this one has plenty of ripe character parts. Cedric the Entertainer is a private eye who's all tenacity, no tact ("You want tact, call a tactician"). Paul Adelstein serves nobly as the comic foil; Geoffrey Rush as a blithe, then ferocious cuckold; Julia Duffy as a rich divorce; Jonathan Hadary as a purring aristocrat-for-hire; Irwin Keyes as a hit man with a deadly wheeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Pretty Witty | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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