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...least, if you want to attract young men. Testosterone-friendly shows from last season like Fox's Firefly and the WB's Birds of Prey are gone, and most of the shows that have had modest success this year (such as The O.C. and Joan of Arcadia) skew toward women. That leaves a big opening for cable. Channels like FX and ESPN are up in young male viewers. (See page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Watch: Those Missing Young Men: A Network Mystery | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...wait. Though Soul Calibur II (all consoles, $49.99) doesn't tinker with the first game's look and feel, it adds a cast of characters that varies depending on your machine. Got a GameCube? You'll love playing as Link, the hero of Legend of Zelda. Xbox owners, who skew older, get Todd McFarlane's Spawn. Nobody gets cheeseburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Top 10 Video Games: Who's Got Game? | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...Idol audience. (Fuller was incensed that Davis spent eight months refining Clarkson's debut for radio rather than getting it to market as soon as possible.) "You have to serve many masters when you have that many people with a vested interest in you," says Ennis. "You can't skew yourself one way and not speak to the people who spent all that time watching you and voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Building A Better Pop Star | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...inserting himself into the tenure selection process before the faculty has its say, Summers could potentially skew the selection of new tenured professors. That Summers now has the power to choose the ad hoc committee members while simultaneously chairing such a committee is a dubious change indeed...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Tenuous Tenure Process | 9/24/2003 | See Source »

...awards, voted on by industry pros, were handed out with the skew towards the mainstream that the Eisner's are known for. A complete list of winners can be found here. However, there were two highlights of the presentations. The "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" award went, most appropriately, to Jason Shiga. Like one his playful comix come to life (see TIME.comix review), Shiga sent an imposter (actually F.C. Brandt) to receive the award. Wearing a black wig and dark glasses the clearly false Shiga then regaled the audience with an absurd shaggy dog story about being born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of the Con | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

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