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...Hollywood, all good things must come to an end--and then get spun off into something that's almost as good, but not quite. After Friends finishes its 10th and final season next year, NBC will launch a sitcom starring Joey Tribbiani, the lazy, lovable lunk played by MATT LEBLANC. (What, Gunther wasn't available?) The new show will premiere in the fall of 2004 in that same old comfy Friends time slot, Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T. Joey won't be going on his own: the three executive producers who created Friends will be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 2003 | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

Game Over may be this one-man film studio's autobiography: a glimpse into the virtual heart of the computer nerd who spun so much Spy Kids fun. Now if he could just crawl out of his labyrinth and give us a brighter, warmer Spy Kids 4. In 2-D, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Kids, Just All Right | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...black actress, Union, 29, harbors few illusions about the business. But she dares to dream of a rising tide. "We want what we saw with Halle Berry in the Bond film Die Another Day, where her character, Jinx, is being spun off into her own franchise. Like breeds like, and if that movie makes money, then a lot of us supporting women could get our own franchises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babes In Boyland | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

ARMONICA Inspired by a man who played melodies by rubbing his wet fingers around the rims of wine glasses, Franklin built a machine to mimic the process. The player spun glass bowls- different sizes for each note-on a spindle and pressed wetted fingers to the glass to play tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Inventor: A Beautiful Mind | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...wasn't able to cater to its just-on-time production schedule. At the time Germany, acting ahead of many of its neighbors, had begun allowing private freight operators to move their goods within the nation on state-owned track, so BASF set up Rail4Chem. The railroad unit was spun off in 2001, and has since been run by Raith, a former state prosecutor who switched to business mid-career and spent years trying to revive industrial companies in eastern Germany. BASF remains an important client, but Rail4Chem also moves chemicals across Europe for other companies. Business is so good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting a Move on Rail Freight | 7/6/2003 | See Source »

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