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...test run is going very well. I corner some unsuspecting souls and ask them for their impressions of me. One or two people say I'm freaking them out - apparently not much has changed since my high-school days. But when I have explained what the MA-IV is and can do, most folks pronounce it cool. Would they consider buying one? Um, maybe. (See the interviews on our website...
DIED. JASON MILLER, 62, playwright and actor who won a 1973 Pulitzer Prize and Tony award for That Championship Season, of a heart attack; in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The play is based on Miller's experiences on his high-school basketball team, but he is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades...
...time he married high-school sweetheart Wu Shu-chen, Chen had passed the bar exam as a National Taiwan University undergraduate and was moving into private practice as a lawyer. Through this phase of his career and the next?his emergence as a political figure following his stellar defense of the "Kaohsiung Eight" opposition group charged with plotting to overthrow the government, and his subsequent terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel...
...This collection ranges from "essays," like the self-explanatory, "I Hate Dali," to tales like "Peculiar Celebrity," about the wife of a high-school teacher. The strongest of these involves a nine-year-old girl who discovers a device in her great-aunt's basement. The story the aunt tells of the contraption has such charm and imagination I daren't reveal it except to give you the title: "Personality Records." (Note the clever sideways reference to the "RPM" of the book's title...
...That's not to say The WB has to abandon its niche approach. MTV has miraculously done that for 20 years. But it's not an easy feat when your audience, like the cast on a high-school drama, turns over and graduates every few years - and sooner or later you hit a ceiling, as The WB already seems to have done. In the short run, it seems to be sticking with youth - one high-profile project for next year is "Smallville," about Superman's teen years - but losing "Buffy" and possibly "Angel" might eventually shake...