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When you’re brought up with so-so teams, you learn to appreciate the finer points of the game. That’s a nice way of saying that it’s possible to find good qualities in losing teams—hustle, sportsmanship and, of course, great potential...
...crunch time at one of the competitors in the cable-news wars. The network is under pressure from its corporate bosses. The news execs are throwing young, nubile talent on the air in a desperate attempt to look hip. And the network's high-priced new star anchor is getting so-so ratings at best. No, it's not that network--or either of the other two. I-24 is the fictional network at the center of Breaking News (Bravo, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a new drama whose subject is especially relevant during the summer of the 8 p.m. joust...
...from research giant Jupiter Media Metrix says the picture is more complex: many burners buy more recorded CDs than they used to. After all, if you really love listening to an album, you're going to want the real thing--lyrics, liner notes and all. Chances are it is the so-so albums--the ones from which you want only one or two tracks--that are suffering...
...shot aside, he isn’t a very original or intelligent director. Even at age nine, I had my suspicions about Hook’s ghastliness, and I haven’t been encouraged recently by his frustratingly derivative war movie Saving Private Ryan and godawful sequel to the so-so Jurassic Park. Over at his five-year-old production company Dreamworks SKG, Spielberg has encouraged the production of some of the more overrated studio films in recent years, including the plodding Almost Famous and the sophomoric American Beauty. Most shamelessly, he advised pumping up a scene...
...Fiorina brought them together last week in a stock deal initially valued by the companies at $25 billion. Fiorina, one of the most powerful women in American business, is a steely-nerved visionary who once compared her business to a game of blackjack. She has doubled the stakes on a so-so hand. If she wins, she wins...