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They oohed as animated football players threw one another to the ground. They ahhed as vividly colored martial artists gouged each other's eyes. The crowd huddled around ultrathin TVs earlier this month at the Metreon, a four-story Sony entertainment palace in San Francisco, was getting a sneak preview of Sony's much-touted PlayStation2. And they were loving...
...refused to do shoots with models he deems too young, and once, in an editorial meeting at a major American fashion magazine, protested that every model in a fall preview spread was white, blond haired and blue eyed. "I said, 'Last time I looked, we didn't live in Sweden.' People stared at me as if I were speaking Latin." Aucoin retains the same passion for his trade that he had when he started 18 years ago. Still, he proclaims, "if all it says on my gravestone is DID GOOD LIPSTICK, I'd rather it say nothing...
Your item on new television shows [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 4] cited Bette Midler's program Bette as the one that many advertisers give the best odds for success. Bette as a sitcom queen? I don't think so. She's about as relevant to modern life as Spiro Agnew gags. I'm unplugging my TV now. Call me when her show has been canceled. SACHA A. HOWELLS Los Angeles
...Speaking before a preview performance last week, Vidal says he was inspired by the politics of 1960, when Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic Hamlet, battled Young Turk Jack Kennedy for the party's presidential nomination. "You have a very noble and eloquent and witty man, a superior man, who is just a ditherer, to be blunt about it, up against a real political operator, on the order of Nixon. So we have a Stevensonian character and a Nixonian character. But they're not thinly disguised portraits, they're archetypes. Just for fun I made the political operator with a totally virtuous...
...that the three industries often push violent product in places where young people are a large part of the audience. Though the report did not cite films or studios by name, it did find that R-rated films were advertised in high school newspapers, offered to teens through free preview screenings and advertised on programs watched heavily by children, such as "Xena: Warrior Princess," "South Park" and professional wrestling. (Professional wrestling? It would be fair to say the report passed up the chance to observe that some of this "children's" programming is skeevier than anything in R-rated movies...