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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SOPRANOS This HBO drama reinvented the Mafia genre with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, in front), a besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best Television Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...CITY (HBO) Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and friends patrol Manhattan like a Fantastic Four whose weapons include sarcasm and Prada. Maturing this year from a raunchy romp into an arch cultural dispatch, it's a refreshing story of professional women who don't need the love of a good man so much as want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best Television Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...film, which was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival over the summer, will air on HBO beginning Nov. 29 and continuing throughout the month of December...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RFK Daughter Screens New Film on Rural Poor | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...accounting irregularities being behind the disappointment, then you pick up the phone, or go to your computer, and turn that unrealized loss into a realized loss, pronto. My rule is simple: companies nailed or fessing up for bogus numbers can't be owned. Many never come back. Waste Management, HBO McKesson, Sunbeam--these were all worth booting the moment the accounting problems surfaced. Don't try to rationalize or waffle. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ka-Booom! | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...that it has spawned a gym for devotees in Hollywood and a catering service in Los Angeles, the Delivery Zone, which serves about 120 people a day. A similar service, Perfect Balance, has started in New York City and delivers to 1,200. Kristin Davis, who co-stars in HBO's Sex and the City, gets a delivery every day, and it has helped her lose 10 lbs. "I feel so much better that I'd be really shocked if there was a [health danger] that we didn't know about," she says. "It's more healthy than I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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