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When All In The Family's Carroll O'Connor died last month, it was a great loss for TV. And a great gain. In the brutal summer of Fear Factor, America was actually talking about TV, the medium it loves to hate itself for loving. O'Connor's Archie Bunker, the consensus went, helped America make sense of a period of social turmoil in a way no news report ever could. In a way, O'Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower...
...Medium to large companies can expect to pay between $100,000 and $300,000 a year for Intelliseek's services. Individual searchers can exploit some of the same expertise for free at www.profusion.com, where handpicked collections of resources are grouped and searchable by subject. More specialized and tightly focused search tools are the kind of solutions to the invisible Web's sprawl you can expect to see more of, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher, a journal for database professionals. "What you get are high quality sites, preselected directories and metadata [data about data] collections. They may be a minuscule...
...Those payments are keeping them alive. After next year, they'll be on their own. And it's tough to survive as a mainstream car manufacturer when most of your cars are not new," says Jim Collins, an auto analyst at UBS Warburg, noting that Rover's small and medium lines are coming up to their fifth and seventh year, respectively, with no new models in sight. And Collins says he doesn't see where Rover will get the millions - if not billions - of dollars needed for new-car development. Perhaps that's true of big carmakers, Howe retorts...
...Lear and a fellow hawker named Ed Simmons decided that the street they really wanted to work was comedy writing. It was 1949; the infant medium of television was ravenous for material; the new team needed just one break in order to kiss baby pictures goodbye ? and Lear typically made it for them. Posing as a New York Times reporter, he got Danny Thomas' phone number from an agent. He called Thomas and offered him a piece of material for a benefit engagement that night at Ciro's in Hollywood. "How long wilt asked Thomas. "How long do you need...
...representative cross section of humanity responds to it. Like The Exorcist, it deals with an essentially unknowable, therefore unpredictable and thoroughly spooky symbol of evil. Jaws promised to hit right in the old collective unconscious and to draw millions irresistibly to the box office. Start a mass-medium migration like that, its producers hope, and millions more will turn out just to see what all the excitement is about. After that, as they say in the trade, 'through the roof...