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Just when you thought reality TV couldn't sink any lower, on May 17 the WB will launch a show that takes a diabolical spin on American Idol. Created by Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor), Superstar USA duplicates Idol's format, down to the three-judge panel--this one includes rapper Tone-Loc, has-been pop star Vitamin C and snappish TV producer Chris Briggs--but judges kick the able singers off while promoting the earnestly talentless, off-key William Hung types. None of the contestants are clued in to the hoax until the end. "What's extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, the Humanity! | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...views spontaneously and with a vehemence that leaves the government little to work with. "The only way Blair wins is if the Tories say, 'This is really all about getting us out of the E.U.,'" Cummings says. "But Howard isn't going to fall for that trap. All spin aside, I just can't see what the hell the government thinks it's doing." An aide to one of Blair's Cabinet Ministers admits that "it will be a temptation for a lot of people to vote no. Britain isn't going to withdraw from the E.U. as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony's Big Adventure | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...transparencies as the viewer walks around it. Perhaps only as an independent study could Robert Stortz work on his unusual, cylindrical light sculpture consisting of two fluorescent lights encased in pieces of colored plastic. Another piece worth nothing is a metal sculpture done by Tom Costagliola meant to spin under the force of falling water...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: Ten Years of Problems | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...transparencies as the viewer walks around it. Perhaps only as an independent study could Robert Stortz work on his unusual, cylindrical light sculpture consisting of two fluorescent lights encased in pieces of colored plastic. Another piece worth nothing is a metal sculpture done by Tom Costagliola meant to spin under the force of falling water...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: Ten Years of Problems | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...summer turned to fall, drawn by the image of Dean as a maverick. Though O’Mary would never be a “Deaniac”—years behind the scenes had made him wary—maybe he’d had enough of spin...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Guy Behind the Guy | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

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