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...buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (of Conan O'Brien fame) ripping mercilessly on the network's programming mistakes. ("'Stark Raving Mad' was a great show - for me to poop on!") The implicit message: a healthy network can afford self-deprecation...
...committees. Even when he was named chairman, Ford was taunted as "Prince William" by outgoing chief executive Trotman. "I had to decide whether to get in the dirt and wrestle or walk away," Ford recalls. He chose to rumble. "I'm a very competitive person, and it made me mad. I wasn't going to let the company beat...
...MAD ABOUT THE MOUSE...
...anyone can bring pizazz to this decrepit genre, it's Baz Luhrmann--the mad Aussie who, in his 1996 Romeo + Juliet made Shakespeare play like a psychedelic rap video. The idea here was to take a plot that crosses 42nd Street with Camille and, he says, "steal bits of culture from the 20th century and use it to make a code, a software, to access emotion and character...
...Fifteen years from now, he’s going to be successful because of things like that. With a lot of the kids that you say ‘no’ to, they get mad at you and say you’re wrong. But this kid came back out and said ‘I want a spot’. He forced me to get him in there and then did a good...