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...brand identity apparently means a lot of comedy, because UPN announced four new sitcoms and only one new drama. The drama, "Jake 2.0," concerns a government computer geek whose body is "infected" by tiny experimental robots that enhance his strength and senses and allow him to interface with computers. (Unlike the $6 Million Man, though, he doesn't make a cool doo-doo-doo sound when he runs.) UPN's had its greatest success lately with its Monday night lineup of African-American comedies, to which it's adding Eve's off-the-hizzle show, "The Opposite Sex," in which...
...those lovelorn Gen Xers who've been waiting for geek-hunk actor JOHN CUSACK to show up outside their windows with a boom box: he's not coming. Cusack is dating MEG RYAN, whom he first met when the two stars lent their voice talents to Disney's cartoon epic Anastasia. Which is somehow appropriate, given that Cusack and Ryan, who is five years older, form what may be the cutest couple the human species has ever produced. Seriously, if they ever have a kid, it's gonna come out a Care Bear. The two are notorious for dating their...
...Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates ’77 and Microsoft President Steven A. Ballmer ’77, who is a Crimson editor, the new space has facilitated more than just a doubling in the size of the computer science faculty. Now, the most hard-core computer geek could feasibly camp out here for months, using the two shower rooms on the first floor and eating from the vending machines stocked with an array of microwavable goodies...
Before computers and pop-culture fetishizing, there was a different breed of geek. Even more loathed and degraded than his modern ancestor, this geek was a literal freak - a sideshow act - a man willing to growl like an animal and bite the heads off chickens for his daily fifth of cheap booze. Along with confidence men, carnies and cops, the geek is just one of the grimy characters of William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1946 novel "Nightmare Alley," now turned into a gripping graphic novel by the veteran comix artist known as Spain...
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