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Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling used the eerie-tale genre to get around broadcast strictures, and in a way so does Abrams. Networks have long been afraid that audiences would lose interest in talky, character-driven shows about relationships. So Abrams lets viewers believe they're getting something else. Alias was sold as--and truthfully is--the story of a grad student who becomes a spy. But what really grabbed Abrams was that Sydney Bristow (Garner) has to work with her father Jack (Victor Garber), a chilly pragmatist with whom she has a rocky history. Garner recalls Abrams' pitch: "There...
...regulated group created by the gaming industry, and is recommended only for players ages 17 or older. Yet there is no law preventing retailers from selling Mrated games--including other hot titles like Halo 2, Half-Life 2 and Doom 3--to kids. Now the Governor of Illinois, Democrat Rod Blagojevich, is trying to do something about that. Outraged by a news report about JFK Reloaded, a game available for download from an overseas firm, in which players try to assassinate President Kennedy, Blagojevich plans to propose two bills this month that would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by fines...
...wait for the results of the investigation. No reporter of his generation has covered as many big stories as Dan Rather has, from the Kennedy assassination forward. He had a long and distinguished reporting career. No one knows better than Dan that he has also been a lightning rod for controversy and criticism. But I think he deserves to be judged on his whole career and not just on this final episode...
...time overseas too, where she is intent on expanding Nickelodeon's presence and developing more original programming for MTV, including the soon-to-debut MTV Base in Africa. Back home, a year after Janet Jackson's MTV-produced Super Bowl half-time striptease, McGrath may again be a lightning rod with the February launch of her newest U.S. channel, Logo, a 24/7 network for gays and lesbians. Not surprisingly, controversy doesn't particularly concern her. Instead, says the Scranton, Pa., native, who started at MTV in 1981 as an on-air promotions copywriter, "I am always worried about missing...
...Over the summer the magazine's assistant editor, Rod Liddle, was savaged for weeks in multiple newspapers by his estranged wife, Rachel Royce, for conducting a long affair with a young assistant. Liddle retaliated in kind - a mesmerizing trench war of invective and betrayal that proved, if nothing else, that they both can write. Earlier last month the Spectator's editor, the tousle-haired, rumpled and voluble Boris Johnson - who is also a Member of Parliament, one of the Conservative Party's few truly popular figures, and a married father of four - was revealed to be conducting what Royce, writing...