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...Carol. Several TV and stage roles later, the scrawny, blue-eyed Frankie, his mother Denise and his sister Cristina, 15, are moving from Woodridge, N.J., to Los Angeles and getting ready for life in the spotlight. This month, not only has Malcolm hit the airwaves in a flurry of hype--Fox is plugging it hard after a cataclysmic fall season--but Muniz's first movie, the 1940s coming-of-age story My Dog Skip, is opening...
JAMES GANDOLFINI Sopranos buzz reaches climax with movie-style premiere. Can Prozac paisan live up to hype...
...media hype cannot attract interest where there is nothing to be hyped, Patterson said...
More importantly, we are finally seeing how the hard work and hype truly averted a serious problem. Now, Y2K-related errors are popping up in some more important computer systems. The Y2K consulting firm the Gartner Group reported that some of its clients had problems ranging from a computer that mixed up customer orders to a dentist's office that would not allow appointments to be made for the year 2000 and then crashed, destroying patients' records...
While many now decry the media hype and billions of dollars spent on the Y2K bug when no major consequences have occurred, the early efforts were what prevented serious problems from occuring. We must remember that the precautions taken by government and industry enable us to sit here and complacently take everything for granted. So while the wood stoves slowly trickle back to the shelves of Home Depot and Sears, be thankful that you don't have to eat Vienna Sausages for dinner tonight...