Search Details

Word: network (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...network's main hope for Passions lies in the show's creator, James Reilly, a 50-year-old medical school dropout bestowed with the kind of outre imagination for which the world provides few professional outlets. A veteran daytime-drama writer, Reilly was brought to NBC to revive an ailing Days of Our Lives in 1992. During his five-year tenure as head writer, the show became the most-watched daytime soap on television among the genre's target audience of young and middle-aged women. It also became one of NBC's five most profitable shows in any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Love, Money, Witches And Beach Grass | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Lives was story lines with paranormal elements, which makes sense, given that he claims to have once helped deliver a two-headed baby. Reilly had the show's heroine, Dr. Marlena Evans, undergo demonic possession followed by an an exorcism, all to impassioned audience response. In 1996 the network gave him free rein to begin creating something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Love, Money, Witches And Beach Grass | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...country has redesigned its network of well-established walks, trails and camping facilities to bring backpackers into closer contact with community-based tourist services. Escorted tours extend even to remote cultural homelands where visitors can watch Ndebele potters and beadworkers create their wares or admire the sandstone and ironwood creations of Sotho and Zulu sculptors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Makeover | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Philadelphia native whose only previous high-profile role was in a TV spot for Psychic Friends Network ("Ten minutes free! We're totally stoked!"), Donahue, 24, tried out for Blair Witch after answering an ad in the trade paper Backstage. She filmed the mock-documentary with her male co-stars while the real movie's directors stayed out of camera range and passed along notes to the cast. "It was an actor's dream," sighs Donahue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out of Nowhere And Into Blair | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...contain more far-reaching wit than almost any other 1 1/2 minutes of must-see TV. Promoting MTV, the Jukka Brothers slots create a kind of Hansel and Gretel-meets-Deliverance world in which coolness-deprived backcountry woodsmen learn about the outside universe only through the bikini-filled music network. When's the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ad Land | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | Next