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Next on the Eli Walk-of-Shame came a more prominent Yalie: First Daughter Barbara Bush (Yale Class of 2004), who in her speech Tuesday night laid the smackdown on her alma mater’s politics...
...wrestler, Christopher J. Nowinski ’00, a spokesperson for World Wrestling Entertainment’s Smackdown Your Vote! campaign, said that celebrities, such as actor and now California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, could be effective in getting young people to tune...
Next on the Eli Walk-of-Shame came a more prominent Yalie: First Daughter Barbara Bush (Yale Class of 2004), who in her speech Tuesday night laid the smackdown on her alma mater’s politics...
...what's a network to do? One is following the classic dating advice: Act like you're not interested. A few years ago, UPN focused almost entirely on such boy bait as WWE Smackdown! and Star Trek: Enterprise. But last year the Tyra Banks reality series America's Next Top Model became UPN's biggest hit--and, despite its scantily clad, size-0 catwalkers, its audience is as girly as a little black dress. UPN now says it will complement Model with young-female-friendly romantic comedies and dramas like Kevin Hill, starring the hunkalicious Taye Diggs...
...giving itself a demographic sex change, focusing on women under 35. (Don't worry guys: "Smackdown!" stays on Thursday, when every conscious female will be watching "Joey," "Survivor" or "The O.C." in its new time slot anyway.) Which means that next season we get not one but two editions of Tyra Banks' ingenious masterpiece of ambition and bitchiness. Bridging the months between them will be "The Missy Elliott Project," which UPN describes as a hip-hop version of "Top Model," in which a group of aspiring performers hits the road to get their freak on and compete to become...