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...Wagner and Elvis about life after death. And the technology hopes to have life after the exhibit; developed by Britain's Anthropics Technology, FaceWave allows you to use your photo phone - on either 3G or regular networks - to snap a picture of yourself, a Barbie, or a Stalin statue, plug in a message and send it as a surprisingly lifelike animation. FaceWave uses a statistical model of human faces to create video-quality messages with a fraction of the bandwidth and memory required by streaming video. In classic tech-visionary style, CEO Andrew Berend claims it will "break the link...
There are too many competent interviewers in talk TV. From David Letterman's grumpy-uncle persona to Jay Leno's Chamber of Commerce bonhomie to Larry King's slow-pitched softballs, there are plenty of formats on which guests can happily plug their products or agendas. What TV needs are more bad interviews--unpredictable showdowns that don't glide to a safe three-point landing...
...income-tax surcharge on millionaires. G.O.P. Governors are also pushing new taxes in Idaho, Arkansas, Ohio and Nevada. The Democrats, meanwhile, are mostly relying on spending cuts to balance the books. California's Gray Davis is one of the few to back a big tax hike, seeking to plug part of the state's $35 billion deficit. But his Democratic counterparts in Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee and Michigan are all pledging to hold the line on taxes and trim their budgets instead. In New Mexico, new Democratic Governor Bill Richardson has just signed into law a Reaganesque cut in both income...
...sandwich technique," in which soundbites are edited to give the first and last word - when viewers pay most attention - to the government side. More worryingly, several popular talk-show hosts have had their slots canceled after Berlusconi publicly criticized them. Even Ghezzi himself was censored, when RAI pulled the plug on a Blob special series featuring only Berlusconi. The argument was that the show presented one-sided satire. Ghezzi reveled in the fact that undoctored clips of Berlusconi alone were considered satire. "It was the ultimate triumph," he says. Yet Ghezzi wonders if eventually Berlusconi's media control will hurt...
There are too many competent interviewers in talk TV. From David Letterman's grumpy-uncle persona to Jay Leno's Chamber of Commerce bonhomie to Larry King's slow-pitched softballs, there are plenty of formats on which guests can happily plug their products or agendas. What TV needs are more bad interviews - unpredictable showdowns that don't glide to a safe three-point landing...