Word: foxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oversimplifications, his facts are substantially accurate. Probably 80 to 85 percent of Key members were legacies, athletes, final club members--or, in the case of women, regular club "guests." The remaining members felt the social marginalization inherent during Key functions and, necessarily, when a Key event adjourned to the Fox or the Fly, as it so often...
...Scouting Report] Rupert Murdoch is the only media mogul who can claim a truly global empire. With satellites hovering practically everywhere, he can beam down all kinds of programs. The Fox network and studio are hot, even if his Dodgers...
...returned en masse to high school, offering a quartet of new takes on socialization and its discontents. On NBC's 1980 period piece Freaks and Geeks (scheduled for a Sept. 25 debut, 8 p.m. E.T.), the pencil-necked latter scurry from gym-class bruisers wielding dodge balls. On Fox's Manchester Prep (not yet scheduled), the tormentors are the rich preppies in the secret society the Manchester Tribunal, their weapon psychological cruelty. And the WB's Popular (to bow Sept. 29 and 30; regularly Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has outsiders alienated by social castes and beauty-magazine standards; the network...
STEVEN BOCHCO, producer of such hit TV series as NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues, sued Fox late last week, alleging that he has been stiffed out of profits from the sale of NYPD Blue into reruns. Bochco, who will receive more than $80 million from the series, believes there should be more honey in that pot--an additional $15 million at least...
...suit, filed in L.A. Superior Court, Bochco says Fox sold the series to its fledgling FX cable network for a puny $400,000 per episode. (ER, by way of comparison, was sold into syndication to TNT for $1.2 million a show.) Not only did Fox fail to shop NYPD Blue to other prospective buyers, Bochco alleges, but the studio hid interest from other networks so it could supply its own cable channel on the cheap. This isn't the first such case brought against a media giant. Disney settled a similar suit from the producers of Home Improvement, and actor...