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Within the next minute, in some small town, a clueless 14-year-old will slip white shoes onto her black-stockinged legs, and no one will stop her. No leonine six-footer will swoop down from the sky to grab the pumps from her pudgy little feet and rescue her from fashion disaster. No, the skies are empty today. Because the supermodel is dead...
Thanks to cable, alternative sports are already racking up more hours on TV and more viewers. The household audience of ESPN for "extreme" sports like sky surfing and street luge has increased 119% since 1994, while fishing shows are watched by 34% more armchair anglers than they were four years ago. Last June, ESPN's annual summer Olympic-style X Games drew a greater proportion of viewers under 35 than did the network's football coverage. The Wal-Mart FLW bass-fishing tour has become the most popular program on ESPN2, drawing well among young male viewers as well...
Which would you rather watch: a responsible and balanced ABC News report about the tragic but accidental crash of TWA Flight 800--or a stylish, X-Files-like show exposing the bastards who blew her out of the sky, narrated by conspiracy auteur Oliver Stone...
...simple joy of melody, wittily phrased; think of "S'Wonderful," a song whose lyrics would be silly if its music were not really so wonderful. For the Beatles, it might be mundane working-class life appreciated for all of its unique, fantastical truth--take "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which reshapes ordinary objects into a stunning psychedelic spectacle...
...Craig works extremely hard and is a great player," Storey says. "He will definitely play professional hockey one day. The sky's the limit when you know how to work hard, and Craig definitely knows how to work...