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...sick of airplanes,” Zuckerberg says. “You know it’s a bad sign when you fall asleep at takeoff...
INJURED. DICK EBERSOL, 57, chairman of NBC Sports; after a chartered plane carrying him and two of his sons, Teddy, 14, and Charlie, 21, crashed on takeoff; in Montrose, Colo. Teddy, Ebersol's youngest son with his wife, actress Susan St. James, was thrown from the jet and killed on impact when it landed on him. The pilot and a crew member were also killed. Charlie was hospitalized along with his father, whom he dragged from the plane to safety. Both are expected to recover...
STILLER: On this sketch comedy show I did on Fox a long time ago, I did this takeoff on Cape Fear called Cape Munster, where I was Eddie Munster as De Niro in Cape Fear...
Scorsese movies always have a bounty of great scenes, little miracles of kinesis, and this one is no exception. Any time the film takes place in a plane, it soars (one thrilling takeoff, two amazing crashes). The Aviator has an opulence reminiscent of classic MGM. There's also an efficient crackle to the postwar duel Hughes wages with a crafty Senator (Alan Alda). But this handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese...
...minions argue, it may be premature to sound the alarms. After all, following the lead of pioneers like Fox and HBO, Zucker recently pronounced the end of the traditional September-May viewing calendar, and he has a slew of new shows ready to roll out, including an American takeoff on the BBC hit The Office and a boxing reality show, The Contender. To help ensure some much needed stability in such an unpredictable business, Zucker has re-signed Law & Order creator Dick Wolf through 2008 (a fourth edition is in the works) and engineered a smooth transition at the Tonight...