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...panel on boxing at Harvard Law School over the weekend. The panel had three speakers: Wilber “Skeeter” McClure, 1960 Olympic gold medalist and former chair of the Mass. State boxing commission; Lou DiBella, a 1985 Harvard Law graduate who served as an executive for HBO sports before launching his own DiBella Entertainment; and finally Bert Randolph Sugar, former editor of Ring magazine and boxing writer extraordinaire...
With Ms. Lewinsky on HBO, March is Monica Flashback Month, a good time to remember that McCarthyism may be gone but witch-hunts will always be with us. A good time, too, for The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 warning against communal hysteria, which uses the Salem witch trials as its model for hypocrisy. This lucid if uneven Broadway staging stars a ferocious Liam Neeson, still the thinking man's hunk. Laura Linney has the more subdued role as his suffering wife. But her gift for finding fire in the quietest corners of normality makes her Neeson's equal...
...system. Rate each movie you rent, and Netflix will match you up with movies you're likely to enjoy that you might never have heard of. This is a boon for independent movies like Nice Guys Sleep Alone--which couldn't get distribution but did get picked up by hbo after its success on Netflix. "Where we're really powerful is the non-Top 100 films," says Hastings. "We're trying to stay out of the way of the 800-lb. gorilla...
WATCHING ELLIE NBC, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.; LEAP OF FAITH NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T. The networks have long resented HBO, with its nyah-nyah-ing slogan, "It's not TV. It's HBO." But these network sitcoms are aiming to climb on the HBO buzz wagon. Ellie has a pay-cable veneer--an edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus...
...enough Sex and the City. She has seen virtually all 66 episodes of the series--some of them, like the one in which Samantha tries to seduce a priest, repeatedly. But unlike most people, who pay an extra $13 a month on their cable bills to get HBO, which carries the show (and is owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner), Chaplin gets her Sex and the City free. Using a program called Morpheus, she goes online and downloads any episode she wants in as little as 10 minutes. Then she watches her haul on the computer...