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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes up in a strange room with a dead woman. Who is she? he wonders. For that matter, who is he? In this dark city, dour bald aliens, known as the Strangers, have refitted humans with fake memories. Perhaps John is married to pretty Emma (Jennifer Connelly), perhaps not. Perhaps his world will end before he finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: Dark City | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...News Rating: [Two Khomeinis] Would you expect anything less from Fox and Rupert Murdoch? No mention of Clinton, no mention of Whitewater, just sex and scandal, baby. This could be a promo for Dawson's Creek, if that show weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...first 15 minutes of "Charles Grodin" on CNBC were actually entertaining. Grodin said he's supported every president back to FDR, peccadilloes and all, because "I understand the stress of the job." Then there's the Murdoch report: Fox "News" at 10 ran a pop-psych piece suggesting that Monica and Bill were "the perfect match." "Men pursue their 'honey,'" the featured expert said. "Women pursue the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Word | 1/27/1998 | See Source »

None of this money would have been forthcoming had it not been for that gridiron great (at least in the eyes of NFL owners) Rupert Murdoch. The Australian-born boss of News Corp. has reordered the economics of sports. Murdoch views sports not as mere programming but as the foundation for establishing entire television (Fox) and satellite (British Sky Broadcasting) networks. From this perspective, it makes sense to pay more for the NFL than you can get back in advertising revenues. Murdoch fired that thunderbolt in 1994, paying $1.58 billion for the NFC package, 49% more than CBS had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrown for a Loss by the NFL | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...RUPERT MURDOCH Four years ago, people said he paid too much. Now it's peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 26, 1998 | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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