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...called paid search (we'll get to that later), for $1.63 billion--while Overture was itself in the middle of digesting two recent acquisitions, AltaVista and AlltheWeb. The plan, as near as anybody outside Yahoo can make out, is to stitch all those disparate organizations into one huge Frankenstein's monster of a search engine that will strike terror into the hearts of all who behold it. "I think search is clearly among our company's most important strategic initiatives," says Jeff Weiner, Yahoo's vice president of search. Indeed...
...friendly/We just want money and fame/We're the X Generation/We just like to complain.") Collecting all 13 episodes, including one never aired, the two-disc set reunites the original cast and writers to reminisce about the doomed effort. Says Garofalo of one inspiredly weird skit (The Bride of Frankenstein remade in the style of Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives): "Even as we were doing it, I was wondering why we were doing it." For the DVD, Janeane, for the DVD. --By James Poniewozik
Cross the wires of the Burton myths, as Hollywood studios often do, and--it's alive!--you get Frankenstein's multiplex monster, a developmentally arrested auteur capable of turning out an almost consistently profitable brand of kooky horror. Naturally, Burton loathes these myths. "You get pigeonholed very easily in Hollywood," he says, "even if you do something they were leery of to begin with. I try not to think about it, but, oh, it kind of drives me out of my mind...
...Meehan, who looks more like a comparative-literature professor than the zany other half of a comedic duo, is visiting California to see if another Brooks film, Young Frankenstein (1974), can yield the same dividends as their previous endeavor. And if that means wearing a pair of suede sneakers, then...
...figment with a beating heart. With this, the book seems to move from novel to fable, a world in which poems and children all have uncertain parentage. Even so, decoding that fable is another kind of pleasure. Carey's book begins with a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world. But in a universe where so much is false, why should poetry, or any art, be required to stand on terra firma? All the same, there's no mistaking one fact. My Life as a Fake is the real...