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...course, you could make Fail Safe without doing it live, but you would lose the "What if they goof?" factor. As with game shows, TV is borrowing from its past here to address 21st century ratings worries. "Television is marked more and more by event programming," says CBS-TV president Leslie Moonves. (CBS recently announced plans for a live version of On Golden Pond.) Says consultant Ethel Winant, who was an associate producer of the 1950s' live-TV anthology Playhouse 90: "The actors are naked in front of millions of people...[and] the audience is part of that experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Live...from the Brink | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...answer is that Barkley, more than anyone, revolutionized the power forward position and gave the NBA a fresh, honest and funny voice. He gave the fans somebody to laugh at, but he wasn't a goof-off. He was the anti-Jordan, a player who played with neither swagger nor grace...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Should We Remember Barkley Fondly? | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

wasn't used to the consistency. On club, you show up to practice and goof...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer: A Dream Deferred | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...Emma Thompson was originally billed for the role, but Morissette is surprisingly appropriate. Rather than the wrathful God we hear Loki and Bartelby talk of during the beginning of the film, Morissette is a playfully foolish hippie. Don't worry; God isn't portrayed as a total goof: a mother's smile and a beatific demeanor balance Morissette's character, and exhibit an unconventional reverence for the role. She never speaks, but one can tell by Her presence that She is not something to be understood, and certainly not something to be feared...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jesus Saves, Dogma Scores on the Rebound | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...subject of campaign financing. He is brave in so many ways, and just when you want to admire him, he shows his great capacity for silliness, and there is nothing more fatal in politics. I'm sorry, but it simply is true. Voters don't elect people to goof around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Let Jesse Ventura Be Jesse... | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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