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Performing popular music in the orchestral format does not carry the same expectations as performances of monumental classical works. The latter are weighed down by the sheer volume of diverse interpretations and recordings by professional groups of the highest caliber. The Pops are not played as often, and never with the fear that their composers would turn in their graves in the event of artistic disaster...
...least offer me more entertainment than playing another season of Madden 2003. I’m already in season 2014! Joey Harrington has won MVP the last 11 seasons. There is only so many times I can run “parallel slants” in the five-WR format for a touchdown before I start to lose interest...
...pundit manque who expanded the possibilities of the bad chat show with Politically Incorrect, the issue-oriented roundtable that exploited the comic possibilities of letting, say, Tom Arnold hold forth on Kosovo. The live show was not available for preview, but it will in part adapt PI's discussion format, with more serious guests and fewer B-list stars. That fits the earnest air of Maher-tyrdom the host has cultivated since PI was canceled, after his controversial post-9/11 charge that the U.S. was cowardly for bombing enemies with cruise missiles. Let's hope Maher doesn't screw...
...Court?Chinese people starring in the kind of voyeuristic reality-show fare that has made News Corp. the planet's reigning king of schlocky but wildly watchable shows. "We wanted programming like they'd never seen," says Jamie Davis, president of News Corp. China. "We wanted that international format and energy?but you have to go local to succeed...
Gavitt, who recalled the days during the 1950s and 1960s when Ivy teams were fixtures in the national college basketball scene, said that Ivies’ current struggle to compete nationally can be linked to the format of their need-based financial aid policies. He noted that attending Harvard or Yale is often the least cost-effective option for high school athletes and suggested that the entire conference move to a system of fully-funded aid packages that would not include loans...