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College GameDay executive producer Mark Gross said he initially discarded the idea of an Ivy-League telecast, since the show gets offers from so many college football programs across the country—most of them more high-profile than the Crimson...
...produce an awards show for movies that simply keep it too real to win Academy Awards. Memento, Tenenbaums and The Man Who Wasn’t There would top this year’s list. A “Best Ensemble Cast” statue would be awarded. The telecast would last a mere two hours. And we would all be unhappy anyway—left with nothing to complain about...
This year’s telecast also featured the first-ever Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to Ray Tomlinson and Douglas Engelbart, two of the pioneers in the development of the modern computer experience. Tomlinson is credited with inventing e-mail, Engelbart with the mouse. Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, presented the duo their awards...
...half of them. He dismisses any worry over the hemorrhaging of players to the U.S. "It's a globalized world and there's nothing unusual about players crossing borders," he says. It's worth noting that the Giants have their own TV network, and the team's games are telecast nightly nationwide to loyal fans. The Giants have such a mystique that a valued player is yet to defect and the team has even gone on a buying spree in recent years, picking up top players from other squads via free agency. But Watanabe's words are scant consolation...
...argument against. McVeigh will be the first condemned killer to get not only a last meal and last words but also a last photo op. Other moves to deprive him of the attention he craves--forbidding jailhouse interviews, limiting phone calls--are futile in light of the telecast. Cynthia Ferrell Ashwood, who lost her sister, hopes for a boycott, believing it would punish McVeigh more. "I would like him to die very much alone, which is how my sister died. It won't hurt him for me to watch him die. It will just please...