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...opening stores, Dell is acknowledging that retailers are in a better position to address the increasing number of consumers who view computers as an entertainment purchase. Walk down the aisle of your local Best Buy, and you will see that desktop screens are as likely to display Sid Meier's Civilization as H&R Block's TaxCut. "It's not just a PC anymore. I'm connecting this box to the rest of my life," says Michael Vitelli, senior vice president of consumer electronics. "Dell made its money when the computer was a static box. People want...
...Spillane was more famous, more notorious, than any of those writers; for a time, he was the Elvis of fiction. His blockbuster status, along with his sex-and-violence plots and the muscular, almost steroidal, power of his imagery, made him ripe for satire. Sid Caesar played a Hammer character on Your Show of Shows. Al Feldstein led off the first issue of Panic, the sibling of Mad comic book, with a story called "Me, the Verdict," an acute burlesque of Spillane tropes. The highest compliment was paid by Fred Astaire, who in 1953's The Band Wagon devoted...
...game shows, including Blind Date, Dollar a Second and Treasure Hunt, on which winning contestants got to pick a treasure chest that could contain anything from a big-money check to cabbage; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A native New Yorker who came up in Borscht Belt comedy with Sid Caesar and Buddy Hackett, Murray turned to acting in the 1960s, appearing in films like Thunder Alley and TV shows that included The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He also appeared as a substitute host for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show...
...fitting that it was Sid and Yassar,” said captain Will Broadbent following the final. “They are the two best college players in the nation...
...Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, History of the World, Part I and Robin Hood: Men in Tights)--virtually the entire canon, minus The Producers. Most of those are extensions of the genre parodies Brooks and other early-TV geniuses wrote for Sid Caesar. The gags are hit-and-miss, but when they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether it be flatulent cowboys or synchronized-swimming nuns. A big disappointment: no Brooks commentaries. The collection is incomplete without a juicy...