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Commercials are sure to be more intricately entwined with programming. Viewers could, potentially, interactively access information on any product or service seen during a program - a chair on the Big Brother set, a piece of art on Frasier's wall, Calista Flockhart's microskirt. Or, if you like the song on a chart show, you could purchase music immediately and directly. This would make, say, a pick-of-the-charts show, sponsored by a major music retailer, a commercially attractive proposition for the sponsor, the performers and the broadcaster - all of whom would earn a share of associated revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Salesman | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Tallulah Bankhead, Gore Vidal and Joan Bennett, all of them crushed into a Manhattan nightclub no larger than an orgone box. Best job of capturing the jaded eye was turned in by Angela Lansbury, 42, Broadway's ever-eccentric Mame, who was clad in an all but invisible microskirt. Angela's big news was that she had just turned down a movie role as a lesbian. "Corny as it sounds," said she, flashing a stretch of thigh, "I don't want to destroy the image I've created as Mame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Soup is about a bachelor gourmet editor (Gig Young) on the rueful side of 40, who thinks that variety is the spice of sex life until he meets The Girl. Barbara Ferris is a fetching house urchin who wears her microskirt so short that the evening seems like a continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Consolation Prizes | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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