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...Whether the city of Memphis has its growth is yet to be seen. Memphis, says HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant, went after the fight "the way it would go after a new automobile plant." At the weigh-in Thursday afternoon, Merchant stood back, shaking his head and watching Tyson, whom he calls a "psycopath," play to the whooping crowd. "Boxing will lose if Tyson wins," pronounced Merchant, whose HBO network is collaborating with Showtime in producing the pay-per-view version of the fight. "He's convincing people that you don't have the obey the rules, that boxing...
...Daniel Pearl was an innocent civilian whose family never volunteered for the spotlight. So were the victims of 9/11. But the debate over their images started as soon as the airplanes struck the World Trade Center. HBO?s recent documentary In Memoriam used amateur video to chronicle Sept. 11; as someone jumps to escape the flames, a voice off camera lectures, "Don?t take pictures of that! What?s the matter with you?" Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended the images, arguing that we have not only a right but an obligation to watch...
...communal memorial gestures - flowers and messages borne to suddenly consecrated places such as Strawberry Fields and John Kennedy Jr.'s doorstep. Hasty or not, memorials have clearly become one of the nation's meeting places. The most artistic pop culture representation of this new sense of comfort is the HBO series, "Six Feet Under," in which the dead do not simply walk with the living but also chide them, annoy them, and advise them (often poorly). The theme of the series, I believe, is that six feet under is not all that far away...
...only question is this: Why stop with Harvard athletes? Even agents have been immortalized in absurd movies and HBO appearances. There’s a lot of money to be made in a dramatized account of a college sportswriter’s already-thrilling existence...
Kessler went on to produce and write for “The Sopranos” on HBO, where his work was nominated for three Emmy awards. He has also just created his first television drama series entitled “Jamaica Ave,” which will be directed by Spike...