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...After quitting the show for good in 1962, he was host of a weekly hour in prime time that had some inspired guest pairings (Cassius Clay and Liberace) and was the first U.S. network program to feature a Beatles performance. But in May 1965, at 47, he said a last NBC farewell, picking up his trademark stool and walking into the mists of legend. Jack Paar a legend? We kid you not. He was so good that few talk shows since have been up to Paar. -By Richard Corliss...
When Khoei died in 1992, Sistani succeeded him as the most prominent member of the hawza, the network of seminaries and mosques that dominates life in the city and generates huge sums in alms and tithes. Two years later, Saddam placed Sistani under house arrest. In response, Sistani established a base in Qum, in western Iran, and forged relationships with the ruling clergy in Tehran. But Sistani, like many other Shi'ite luminaries, disagrees with the Iranian practice of velayat-e faqih, or rule of the clergy. Aides say he has always discouraged clerics from holding political positions...
Thanks to the tireless efforts of VH1, it is becoming nearly impossible, dude, not to remember. A longtime way station for people too old for sister network MTV and too young for the History Channel, the music network found sudden relevance in 1997 with water-cooler hit Behind the Music, a saucy bio show about the travails of rock stars. But VH1 binged on the show, running and running it until it collapsed (much like its earlier hit Pop-Up Video). In 2002, with ratings scraping bottom, the network brought in new management to decide, in effect, what...
...answer: recycled culture. Gen X had demonstrated an early appetite for nostalgia--witness That '70s Show and the Brady Bunch movies--and the network courted it with I Love the 70s and I Love the 80s, limited-run series in which moderately famous actors, comics and musicians riffed on mass-culture icons from Kojak to Kajagoogoo. The series riveted twenty-and thirtysomething channel surfers, as though tripping a Manchurian Candidate--like synapse. In just over a year, VH1's ratings jumped more than 100% among 18-to-49-year-old viewers. (Also, of course, recycling culture is faster--and often...
...Rocca, who notes that the affection for that culture is not limited to people old enough to remember those decades. "I speak at colleges, and the kids are nuts over these series," he says. "They don't know anything about the Civil War, but they know Battle of the Network Stars...