Word: onscreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...software giant's CEO was directly in its line of fire. Blown up on larger-than-life monitors, Bill Gates was shown giving testimony about his 1995 dealings with Netscape that directly contradicted memos he wrote at the time. "I had no sense of what Netscape was doing," the onscreen Gates said innocently; meanwhile, his on-paper counterpart was feverishly plotting to "buy some piece of them or something...
...nation's most admired and influential people. Now, 11 years after first reading the Morrison novel, here she is as the producer of what she told screenwriter Richard LaGravenese would be "my Schindler's List": a pristine, potent distillation of Beloved, which opens Oct. 16. And there she is onscreen as Sethe. Or rather--and here's a sweet jolt--there is Sethe onscreen, with Oprah living, hiding inside...
...unmindful of Sethe but unchained to her. If Beloved is to succeed with viewers, it will be in part because they recognize that the film belongs, eventually, to Elise; she is the hope that can rise from hurt. "Watching her was so gratifying," Morrison says. "Every time she was onscreen I was happy. You know that feeling: 'Oh, she's back...
...Riegel, acting is all aboutversatility. In a turn onscreen that seems 180degrees from the animated mainstream, she willappear in "East Great Falls High," a flick sheopenly refers to as "a teen sex comedy...
...sometimes get pretty thick over the perfume counter. Now a German company, Aerome, has developed a computerized multimedia kiosk that stores as many as 100 popular scents from the likes of Calvin Klein and Chanel and then releases them--discreetly--through a small opening while an infomercial plays onscreen. The kiosks will be in stores in Germany, England and France this week, with a U.S. debut at Bloomingdale's and Macy's next month...