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...answer to the league's prayers. You see, in addition to his vast potential as a player, Yao Ming has a personality--and an appealing one at that. Despite his temporary reliance on an interpreter, Yao's English already reveals a sly, self-deprecating sense of humor. He loves Starbucks, computer games, action movies and SUVs, and when his Great Wall of a face cracks a smile, arenas light up. Some 1.3 million NBA fans have already fallen for Yao--selecting him, in the balloting for this Sunday's All-Star game, over the Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Center Of Attention | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...packed the house in cities with large Chinese-American communities, like Oakland and Seattle, but he's attracting people of all origins everywhere, and they're coming not just to gawk. "There's something about the guy," says Tomjanovich. "He's got a warmness about him, a sense of humor." Yao is already one of the league's better quotes. Asked whether he can speak English better than he lets on, Yao turned to Pine and said in Mandarin, "I still don't understand a lot of things. If I did, you would have been fired a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Center Of Attention | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...album. But Six O'Clock News opens with a wry guitar riff, and Edwards' upbeat, breathy vocal comes through surprisingly carefree, suggesting she knows that too much tragedy--like a Road Runner cartoon--is its own brand of comedy. On One More Song the Radio Won't Like, the humor is unmissable, as Edwards sings of a cheeseball A.-and-R. exec, "Says he's got a strategy/I'm a test of his sanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Loser Wins | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...Transformers series seems less about simple nostalgia than the unique take on a universal premise. The creators of the comic and television series painted a breathtaking picture of a fantastical world populated by living machines fighting a war that had raged for millions of years. Politics, drama, humor, and a human-like empathy were woven into a tapestry that put a twist on the eternal struggle between Good and Evil...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eugenesis Transforms a Childhood Classic | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...broadcasting boy bands and bubble gum pop, MTVU would aim at a more sophisticated music audience. This is not to say that MTVU will entirely forgo programming that plays on stupidity—in fact, movies like Tom Green’s Road Trip are typical of the humor that MTVU will likely display. MTVU will showcase life at colleges across the country—from Harvard to the University of Puget Sound. College kids have disposable income and tons of leisure time, but no station has ever been successful in churning a profit from them...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Real World of MTV | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

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