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...Hollywood's biggest and most durable producers, he blasted through Alcatraz in The Rock, tossed an airliner full of psychos onto the Las Vegas strip in Con Air and destroyed a hurling asteroid in Armageddon. In the 1980s, along with his late partner, the fast-living Don Simpson, he changed the movie business forever with a highly comic, highly charged formula of music, muscles and mayhem. Through sales of movie tickets, videocassettes and sound tracks, he has generated an estimated $11 billion. And now, wouldn't you know it, he is going soft...
Flashdance was the first collaboration between Bruckheimer and Simpson, a former Paramount executive. Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun made them legends. Also legendary was Simpson's voracious appetite for drugs. "You knew it was coming," says Bruckheimer of his partner's 1996 overdose. "It's amazing that he lived as long as he did." Simpson had been considered the duo's creative force, but since his death, Bruckheimer has proved himself with low-budget winners and big-budget blockbusters. Last year he pulled in nearly $280 million at domestic theaters with Gone in Sixty Seconds, Coyote Ugly and Remember...
...with their remotes - for whatever happens to be on competing channels. It's no coincidence that these interactive gimmicks are most common on shows that have passed their prime (Drew Carey) or never had a prime to pass (Just Shoot Me). They're the new-media equivalent of Homer Simpson banging on the side of the TV, yelling, "Be funnier...
THURSDAY THE U.S.S. INTREPID Creepiest thing I've seen all week: someone in a Lisa Simpson costume shaking her booty to Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me, just a little too sexily for a 10-year-old, while inviting the weary suits on the aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over...
...while Restivo and his employees at Vitello's remember seeing Blake rush in for help, they do not recall his doubling back for the gun. During a five-hour interrogation the night of the crime, Blake declined a polygraph test, contending he was too distraught. Marcia Clark, who prosecuted Simpson and is now host of the syndicated courtroom show Power of Attorney, says that only celebrity is protecting Blake from arrest. Says Clark: "When I'm going to dinner, I tend to leave my AK-47 at home...