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...your parents react to your involvement? WGH: I actually watched “Miss Congeniality” and that movie “Beautiful” with Minnie Driver. I became really obsessed with beauty pageants so I signed up for a bogus beauty pageant. It was a spin-off, like not legit, because you have to pay to get into it. And my mom drove me, but it was supposed to be a statewide thing but there was not a preliminary for it, so you just showed up and were competing for the state title, which is really sketchy...

Author: By Merav D. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wait, You Read? | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...tough to put a positive spin on the massive eruption of mud that has displaced more than 12,000 people and buried a large swath of eastern Java in roiling, putrid sludge. But PT Lapindo Brantas, the Indonesian mining company widely blamed for releasing the reservoir of pressurized mud following a drilling accident last May, has come up with a novel form of damage control: sponsoring a sinetron, or Indonesian soap opera, on Surabaya TV station JTV. The 13-part series, Gali Lubang, Tutup Lubang (Digging a Hole, Filling a Hole), is a love story set among refugees left homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Add Soap, Spin | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...reform debate toward a renewed focus on student advocacy. “I personally believe that we spent a year working really hard to make sure that the UC is restructured and ready to start focusing on the students,” said Riley, who led the effort to spin off the UC’s College Life Committee into the College Events Board last semester. Speaking to Petersen-Sundquist supporters at a rally in Leverett Junior Common Room yesterday evening, Haddock said that Petersen’s relationship with administrators will allow the UC to build...

Author: By Alexandra Hiatt and Rachel B Nolan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hadfield, Petersen Lead In UC Race | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...what’s your favorite “Law & Order”? Aren’t there like 18 spin-offs...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...early years to its earnest latter seasons (starring--above, from left--Alan Alda, Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell), it was a tour de force of TV writing. This 36-disc set offers it all, plus documentaries, a trivia game and the 1970 movie by the late Robert Altman. (The spin-off AfterM*A*S*H is thankfully omitted.) Fire up the still and settle in for a long, hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Boffo TV Boxes | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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