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...against the Seattle company, Internet Entertainment Group, which had announced its intention to air the short film on its Website. A Superior Court judge denied the request, in part because the Lees undermined their invasion of privacy claim by quite publicly discussing the contents of the tape on Howard Stern's radio show. In December the couple reached a settlement with IEG, the terms of which neither side will discuss--although IEG now heralds the video it is selling as the "Only Legal Version" of "the most controversial tape ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honeymooners | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Just in time. For the Zone has become the diet of choice for many world-class athletes and has reportedly hooked celeb dieters Madonna, Howard Stern and Bill Clinton, though the White House is keeping mum. Considering the short shelf life of most fads, the Zone has reached adolescence gracefully. In Southern California it has mushroomed from a life-style choice to an industry. Life Zone, a health club devoted solely to putting people on Zone diets, has seen 1,500 customers in the past two years enlist in its 12-week program. At the bistro L.A. Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGAINST THE GRAIN | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...words: volume (a big voice), volume (three albums in 18 months), volume (saturation marketing by Curb). The new CD--12 songs of inspiration, from The Rose to God Bless America--rarely unleashes Rimes' gloriously freaky soprano; at times she sounds intimidated, like a child called on to sing before stern church elders. Only in an a cappella National Anthem does she let loose the trills and glissandi; but, really, is that a cut you'll want to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN GARTH SAVE COUNTRY? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...DAVID STERN Scores with public for curbing exactly the type of indulged superstar the NBA itself created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 15, 1997 | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...personality of a magnificent beast--King Kong or Moby Dick in extremis. The brilliantly realized visual effects are invisible and persuasive. The digitized water looks like real water; the computer blobs look like human beings tumbling down to their deaths from the severed ship's nearly vertical stern. But the narrative events that should add emotional heft are substandard action tropes: kids in jeopardy, bad guys menacing pretty women, Jack manacled to a water pipe. "I'll just wait here," he says gamely, and idiotically, as Rose runs for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DOWN, DOWN TO A WATERY GRAVE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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