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Bruckheimer's first few attempts at television were disastrous. Dangerous Minds (1996) made the classic mistake of trying too hard to mimic its film progenitor, and Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997) finally overestimated America's interest in killing foreigners. Then he hired Jonathan Littman, the Fox executive who oversaw The X-Files and Beverly Hills, 90210, to run his TV company and instructed him to develop a show about a crime-scene-investigation lab. "We basically said we wanted to make Quincy for people who don't need an oxygen mask," Littman says. "We go into the body, making...
...works will become Target's first children's designer brand. And as with the store's popular home products designed by Michael Graves and Todd Oldham, Target will be heavily promoting the signature style of the creator of the merchandise. The aim is for Kirk to become the progenitor of a "children's lifestyle brand." Think Martha Stewart for toddlers...
...these trying times, Harvard University, long a progenitor of leaders of our nation and the world, should be doing all that it can today to cultivate the men and women who will shape the world of tomorrow. While undoubtedly well-intentioned, the University’s desire to support the full and equal rights of homosexuals need not—and must not—preclude its unequivocal support of ROTC on our campus...
...admit: My breasts are every bit as big as they have to be. But the ad did have a therapeutic side effect. It helped remind me of Russ Meyer's crucial spot on the American spectrum. The filmmaker who uncaged Bosomania as a movie genre is part, and partial progenitor, of a breast-worshipping subculture (or bust-culture) that demands women carry treasure chests, whether real or artificially augmented. Bigger breasts: Men will look. Available from a plastic surgeon near you. Ladies, don't be satisfied with nature's meager bounty. Be all that...
...deceptive ploy that soon had bona fide dancers singing along with the raunchy divas, and dance neophytes feeling the immortal pulse of the 909 kick drum. The surprises continued when Simon picked up an acoustic guitar for “Rendez-vu,” and Felix (progenitor of incredibly cool music but ostensibly a geek behind a mixing board) rushed to the front of the stage with a microphone and, in true rock-star fashion, sang-screamed the lyrics to the spastic, Gary Numan-sampling “Where’s Your Head...