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...know what you're asking-why would you want your TV when you're off galavanting around Singapore? Here's an example: I'll be out of town for a few weeks, and my cable box is set to record new episodes of HBO's Entourage and Comedy Central's Stella. Not only will I not be staying somewhere with HBO, but years of TiVo-style recording have made it almost impossible for me to adhere to oppressive network airtime schedules, not to mention commercials. With the Slingbox, I can literally get my TV shows, and without having to fight...
...mellow guy, Linklater moves his cycle very fast. In 2003, he skipped out of casting sessions for a comedy pilot about low-wage workers he was making for HBO for a few weeks. He came back with Before Sunset--many critics' best film of 2004. He has made six movies in the past five years, plus that unaired pilot and three anti-Bush ads for MoveOn.org Sure, he seems like Small Budget Indie Guy, wearing shorts and making phone calls to set up a little shoot at a bookstore for a 12-year-long project he's hoping to turn...
...week's showing. (Two TIME correspondents on the committee, Hays Gorey and David Beckwith, abstained.) Proponents of the screening point out that the film raises important journalistic issues and that the group has sponsored showings of other movies, like Absence of Malice, with views it did not necessarily endorse. HBO meanwhile staunchly defends the movie. "The people at CBS are too close to the subject," says HBO President Michael Fuchs. "We made Murrow for our audience and not for CBS News...
...What HBO's audience will see when Murrow has its debut next week is an earnest if unexceptional docudrama that exhibits most of the genre's virtues and vices. The script, by Ernest Kinoy (Roots), cogently dramatizes many of the issues that faced TV's news pioneers, from blacklisting to the gathering pres sure for ratings. When CBS Chairman William Paley (Dabney Coleman) breaks the news to Murrow that his acclaimed documentary series See It Now is losing its weekly time slot, he tries to soften the blow by lavishing praise on the program and promising a series of specials...
Most people consider the plight of the homeless anything but a laughing matter, but for Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal it only hurts when they stop laughing. The three comedians were in Washington last week to promote a three-hour telethon they will host on HBO to raise money for health-care organizations serving the homeless in 18 cities. Scheduled to air from Los Angeles next week, Comic Relief will feature a gaggle of gagsters for every age group, from Michael J. Fox to Henny Youngman. HBO will let cable operators make the broadcast available to all subscribers...