Word: turner
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...love talking chimps. But do you love the creatures enough to watch a full half-hour of them? More than once? Sober? The idea and execution here are adequate: chimps run a network on which they parody current TV shows and make fun of Hollywood. Just in case Ted Turner could resist talking chimps, the creators have the fake network run by a mean, stupid Australian mogul to mock Turner's rival, Rupert Murdoch. The real fear is that TBS's Turner might turn this show into an actual channel. Chimps all day may sound appealing, but you probably need...
...deal with a serious shooting incident since 1984. In the entire city of San Francisco, which has half a dozen programs designed to identify students early who may be prone to violence, only two kids brought guns to school last year. But those lessons were learned hard. Joy Turner, whose 19-year-old son was gunned down in inner-city Los Angeles, now spends free time working with young killers to help them understand what they have done to their victims' families. Says she: "What's been real for those of us in the inner city is now real...
...They didn't ask me before they did it," she says. "I was furious. They used the whole track." Not long ago, Ross was asked to be part of vh1's Divas Live '99. Although she says she admires some of the other acts on the roster, notably Tina Turner and Brandy, Ross declined. "It seemed like they were creating a sort of competition," says Ross. "I just didn't think it was well done...
...crowd that doesn't understand a word she's singing and yet somehow feels what she's feeling. She has already visited Japan on a tiny, promo-tour scale, but, she explains, "I haven't been to Japan like Whitney's been to Japan, like Tina [Turner]'s been to Japan, like Diana Ross has been to Japan." Impact is everything. It's at moments like these that one sees another side of Brandy, a shrewdly ambitious side. She may lack the blunt careerist lust of, say, Celine Dion, but her gaze is just as focused on global stardom...
HARVARD, 8-5at Burlington, Vt. R H EHarvard 301 220 0 -- 8 12 0Vermont 002 020 1 -- 5 13 4HR: None. 3B: Ver--None; Har--LaSovage. 2B:Ver--Surgen 2, Barney, Turner; Har--Koppel. E:Ver--Nocera 2, Surgen, Rice; Har--None.WP: Schwab (2-2); LP:Toms...