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...critics. My series, Just Plain Canceled, would air really awful shows that bombed. I met with Kris Slava, vice president of acquisitions and scheduling, and gave him a list of shows I wanted to air: The Chevy Chase Show, My Mother the Car, Manimal, Pink Lady and Jeff and Mr. Smith, the 1983 NBC sitcom about an orangutan that ran a Washington think tank. Slava put a lot of work into looking into this and discovered that the freaks who owned Chevy Chase's talk show not only wanted a fortune per episode but would sell us only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Life as a TV Executive | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...America's most beautiful serious actor (or seriously beautiful one) paints a flummoxed smile on the faces of Depp's admirers. This is, after all, a film based on a Disney theme-park attraction--not a cool thrill machine like the Tower of Terror or a camp classic like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride but the staid Pirates of the Caribbean. For this project, Depp put aside the nutsy-greatsy auteurs of his past (Tim Burton, John Waters, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch) to team up with Gore Verbinski, a director whose prime artistic achievement is the masterminding of the Budweiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rollickingly Entertaining Ride | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...MR SHOPPER" Teens are hired by retailers to pose as customers, to surreptitiously test the service skills of clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Room At The Mcdonald's | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...where the continent of Africa says we don't like this. It's wrong. Stop it. There's nothing you can do. Nobody can do anything about it. There's no one who's saying, we support it. And Obasanjo said, "I'm not doing this alone to give Mr. Taylor sanctuary." It was a decision taken across the board, even with some major Western countries. It's wrong. Where's the proof from the type of thing that said "Taylor financed?" (A UN-backed court in Sierra Leone has indicted Taylor for allegedly financing and training that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia's Taylor: 'I'll Go When the Peacekeepers Come' | 7/12/2003 | See Source »

Gates called Newman “sort of an ‘Ask Mr. Wizard’ for black history, a pen-and-ink Google for blackness, long before Google was conceived...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Famed Afro-American Studies Scholar Dies | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

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