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...Shadowlands The oddest of couples -- an emotionally choked Oxford don and a high-spirited American poet -- find a transforming moment of happiness as they confront her imminent demise. Richard Attenborough's film gains strength from the sterling performances of Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger as the live-and-learn lovers...
...reinterpreted as a schmaltzy R&B ballad--but it's hard to resist music this fun. On songs like Here and Summer Babe, the rhythm section lays down pulsating grooves as saxman Carter uncovers the bluesy tunefulness buried beneath Pavement's trademark static. The result is one of the oddest--and, oddly, most delightful--tribute albums of the year...
...time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished. Probably of all the things I did in Sandman, that was the most unusual and the oddest. That I stopped while we were outselling everybody, because it was done. What everybody wants is more of what they had last time that they liked...
...programming choices. In other words: game on. Advances in technology mean that every listener is up for grabs. Broadcasters have to contend not only with satellite operators like Sirius but also with cell-phone makers and service providers, iPods and even Internet amateurs who can find audiences for the oddest musical tastes. Broadcast radio's answer: fighting back with its own digital strategy...
...conversation surely ranks as one of the oddest in the annals of broadcast journalism. During lunch at a Manhattan restaurant two weeks ago, Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes, asked CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski a question. Would the company ever consider selling CBS News? If so, said Hewitt, he and several of the division's brightest stars, including Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and Bill Moyers, would like to buy it. "I told him CBS News is not for sale. It never was, never is," recalls Jankowski. "I didn't take it seriously...