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...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...
Therein lies the problem. Redstone is famous for ousting or outlasting would-be successors, including former Coca-Cola Television and HBO executive Frank Biondi. Redstone and Karmazin don't appear to disagree on any substantive matter; rather, Redstone told the board he dislikes Karmazin's aggressive style. And associates say they have seen the older man bristle at the attention Karmazin gets. "These are two strong-willed individuals," says Mark Greenberg, who manages the Invesco Leisure Fund. "Neither wants to concede to the other...
...System Is Nuts. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and producer Chris Moore had the cute idea of a contest among amateur filmmakers, with the winner to direct a $1 million movie to be released by Miramax. Project Greenlight (HBO, Sundays, 9:30 p.m.) is the autopsy of a film from start to finish. It's also reality TV at its most instructively sadistic: first you play Survivor, and after you win, they kill you--slowly...
...challenge of creating a second successful character while the public is still holding on to the last one, not to mention seeing her or him nightly on syndicated reruns. Louis-Dreyfus and Alexander made fun of exactly that situation on recent episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the HBO sitcom made by and starring Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. In one scene, Louis-Dreyfus and David, playing themselves, pitch a show called I'm Not Evelyn, about an actress who can't get work because she's pigeonholed as the character she used to play. Louis-Dreyfus, however, has never pursued...
...feels like a cable show,'" says Louis-Dreyfus' husband and Ellie creator Brad Hall. He means that in a good way. Not, as he says, like "God, it feels like a local public-access show." Says Louis-Dreyfus: "It's a reinvention of storytelling, which a lot of the HBO shows are. [NBC entertainment president] Jeff Zucker realizes that he needs to do something different or else he's out of a job." Zucker was so enthusiastic about breaking the rules that he originally suggested not having commercials interrupt the show. Then he realized that was a much more direct...