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...best documentarian, shoot the "what do the movies mean to you?" clips that opened the ceremony; if it was yet another example of the ritual tongue-bathing Hollywood administers itself every year, it was at least dry-witted and unsentimental in Morris' typical style. There was the multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some of the awards - the fewer clunky jokes misread off the TelePrompTer, the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Oscar™ for Shameless Self-Congratulation Goes to... | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...next stop in Samsung's digital march is the living room. To that end, the company has worked with Microsoft to develop Home Media Center, designed to control everything from your DVD player to the PC. Last June, Texas Instruments and Samsung signed an agreement to develop ultrathin, large-screen televisions based on TI's digital light-processing technology. In 1999 TI turned down a Samsung partnership offer, thinking it would be better to work with "established" brands. By last year it was clear that TI's initial partners were moving too slowly to get anything to market in good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung Moves Upmarket | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...seat at one of the two dozen desktop video consoles dotting the cozy, cavelike space and push a button to start channel surfing. When we see someone interesting, we use a joystick to zoom in for a better view. Within a few minutes, a message pops up on screen: "Channel 33 says hi! Would you like to go to that channel? Press A if so. Press B to deny them." I press A and pick up the phone. Someone named Adam is calling. He says hi, tells me he's in the back room and asks me to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Drinks And Videotape | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...next stop in Samsung's digital march is the living room. To that end, the company has worked with Microsoft to develop Home Media Center, designed to control everything from your DVD player to the PC. Last June, Texas Instruments and Samsung signed an agreement to develop ultrathin, large-screen televisions based on TI's digital light-processing technology. In 1999 TI turned down a Samsung partnership offer, thinking it would be better to work with "established" brands. By last year it was clear that TI's initial partners were moving too slowly to get anything to market in good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung Moves Upmarket | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...when a bright, shining new baseball movie hits the screen, why aren’t we all drawn toward the theater on merry waves of nostalgia? Take Disney’s new (but old-sounding) The Rookie. A true story, it stars Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a teacher and former pitcher. Long sidelined by an injury, he promises the struggling high school team he coaches that if they win their championship, he will make a final bid at the pros. Why, when I read the synopsis, did I groan aloud...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quaid Goes the Distance in ‘Rookie’ | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

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