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...Lisa Simpson costume shaking her booty to Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me, just a little too sexily for a 10-year-old, while inviting the weary suits on the aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over the season; Pasadena, a spooky-looking soap. I leave the party early, walking past...
...which will test if one can literally OD on camp) and finished with "Manhunt," a reality show where people are hunted "WWF-style" with paintballs. (If the ratings fall, we go to blowdarts!) Then it was time for what everyone was waiting for: "Star Trek: Enterprise," the new Trek prequel that takes place a hundred years from now and a hundred before the first series, at the dawn of space travel. Or so we're told. For you see, after two hours, we did not see "Enterprise" at all - it's just been cast - but only trailers of past Trek...
Sony sports games like NFL GameDay 2001 pleased as much as ever the niche audience that cares about such entertainments, but there was no must-have mainstream game, no equivalent of Tomb Raider or Crash Bandicoot. After a buildup worthy of a Star Wars prequel, most PlayStation 2 offerings turned out to be disappointingly middling. Some hype is impossible to live...
...fact, many of the titles listed here offer an experience superior to going to the movies. Lucas Arts' Star Wars game far outshines the altogether dismal film prequel offered in The Phantom Menace. Gamemakers are starting to pull in big names. James Earl Jones, for example, stars in Command & Conquer's latest outing, while David Bowie is the driving force behind the forthcoming Omikron. Indeed, game designers are starting to act like directors--guys like Sid Meier (Alpha Centauri) and Adrian Smith (Tomb Raider) who closet themselves in high-end studios for two years at a time, ceaselessly fine-tuning...
That's bad news in an industry that relies on hits to get kids and parents into the stores. This year, for example, Hasbro and retailers were betting on products licensed from Star Wars' prequel Phantom Menace to drive sales into the crucial fourth quarter, which accounts for half of all toy sales. However, the force has not been with the Star Wars line. "It was very strong in May and June, during the movie's release," says Leslie Rauch, a senior buyer for Target stores. "But since then, it's become nothing more than a boy's action figure...