Word: hbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cable television is a pleasure that the University should provide. Many students want to take a break from their busy days to watch HBO, ESPN, Encore or Comedy Central. Or maybe even the Harvard Channel...
...Madonna, went on to direct Seven and the forthcoming thriller The Game. Sigismondi says movie scripts have been "flooding in," but that she hasn't chosen a project. Williams is developing a live-action Fat Albert feature for Bill Cosby. Hunter has signed to direct a film for HBO, and Glazer is working on the movie Gangsta Number One. But none of them have yet decided to leave videos for movies permanently. Says Glazer: "I don't believe you graduate from one to another." Meeting rock stars, attending awards shows--who would want to leave a film school like this...
...return. He was also eager for some big-time publicity: his biggest album, No Fences (1990), sold more than 13 million copies, but his latest, Fresh Horses (1995), sold just 4 million. The Central Park concert, which was free (the $11 million bill was footed by Brooks and HBO, which aired the show) was originally conceived as a mega-infomercial for his new CD, Sevens, which had a release conveniently...
...create great music. And most people were so far from the stage that Brooks was just a black speck in a cowboy hat. Hometown-hero Billy Joel, a special guest on a few songs, got a larger ovation. The highlight of the show came at the end, after the HBO telecast was over, when Brooks and Joel came out for an encore of Joel's You May Be Right. Brooks is better when he's not trying to sell you something and the cameras...
...press' analysis of the governor's announcement is not meant as slander. The media love their Brattle Street governor. They love when his dead-pan wit turns a mundane press conference into an event that makes HBO's Comedy Central look like church, or when his beefed-up intellect sends them scurrying for a dictionary. Their analysis is not that of critics judging an artist, but instead, that of children trying to show their father they understand what he's up to. Yet these children actually have no idea what their father is up to. His move is too simple...