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QUESTION 5: Before hitting the big time, your company must first overcome what obstacle to growth of epic proportions? A) The Sherman Anti-Trust Act; B) Barriers to entry set up by your roommate's competing firm; C) The Ad Board; D) All of the above...

Author: By Rich S. Lee, | Title: Regis Does IPO | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...miked like a walking Radio Shack, attempting to bribe judges while antsy G-men tape the seductions from parked vans. The distinguished targets come from all walks of life and can be sympathetic inversions of stereotypes. Judge Barnett Skolnick is an elderly, good-natured dimwit who spouts stage Yiddish. Sherman Crowthers is a massively built black jurist who paralyzes attorneys with his battering intelligence. Exaggerated characters? Yes. Caricatures? Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay His Honor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...journalists were tortured by beatings with fists and rubber batons to the head, body and feet and by application of electric shocks all over the body, said Sherman Carroll, director of public affairs with the Medical Foundation for the Care and Treatment of Victims of Torture in London. They were also submitted to the "submarine," meaning their heads were "wrapped in plastic bags and then submerged in water until they started suffocating," he said...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Fellow Faces Trial In Africa | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...former film-lab fellows Walter Salles and Tony Bui. The Wood, a coming-of-age story about three African Americans by Rick Famuyiwa, is due out this week. The list of Sundance students over the years is long and impressive. It includes Quentin Tarantino, Julie Taymor, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sherman Alexie and Anna Deavere Smith. So when you watch 25-year-old Princess Peter-Raboff, an Alaska native and member of the Venetie Indian Reservation, shoot one of her first ever scenes with award-winning Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag offering pointers and encouragement, you can't help wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Summer | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...idea: "It's about a Nielsen family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. You try to pitch a sitcom after seeing that. This might explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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