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...Airplane! and Naked Gun series--a send-up of such Hollywood darlings as the teen-horror genre (Scream), the teen-romance genre (Dawson's Creek) and some other nonsacred cows like The Blair Witch Project, The Usual Suspects and The Matrix. Wayans, along with his younger brothers Shawn and Marlon (who star in the film and share screenplay credit), also outgrosses the gross-out genre with two grotesque close-ups of male genitalia and a jaw-dropping ejaculation sight...
...SCARY MOVIE Directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans Starring Marlon Wayans,Cheri Oteri, Shawn Wayans JULY...
Many of those peers had a high opinion of Mary. Janet Flanner ("Genet") called her "the most educated female mind of our time in both America and England." The New Yorker editor William Shawn went so far as to say, "There aren't many people you could mention in connection with Samuel Johnson. But you could mention Mary McCarthy." That's going too far. McCarthy left some good travel writing, interesting memoirs and some biting stories. Her best sustained work was her personality--forceful, witty, sometimes generous, often merciless...
...fitting that college campuses are the breeding ground for these infectiously growing programs. Founder Shawn Fanning, 19, wrote the original code for Napster while he was a freshman computer-science major at Boston's Northeastern University. An admittedly lousy guitar player, Fanning began writing the code so he could distribute his own six-string doodlings and squelch his roomie's constant whining about unreliable MP3 search engines. Back in the MP3 stone age--you know, eight months ago--too many links to too many tunes were outdated or invalid, frustrating many a prospective pirate...
...challenges presented by companies like MP3.com which have flourished because of their immense selection of songs and tech expertise that old-media record labels can't match. Now even bigger threats are coming from the second generation of MP3 sites, like the 10-month-old Napster.com founded by Shawn Fanning, a 19-year-old college dropout. (See following story.) "You're going to see 1 million artists and 500,000 music labels on the Internet by 2002," says rapper Chuck D, who has also founded two music websites, Slamjams.com and Rapstation.com