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Enter Stitch, a killing machine from the planet Turo. An unholy mix of E.T. and the Zuni fetish doll that scared the wits out of Karen Black in the never-to-be-forgotten TV movie Trilogy of Terror, Stitch was created by a mad scientist--or, as he prefers to be known, an "evil genius"--who gave the creature only one instinct: "to destroy everything it touches." Stitch escapes to Earth, a primitive planet that the Turans have allowed to exist as a "protected wildlife preserve to repopulate the mosquito." Stitch wanders into a dog pound and is adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Stitch in Time? | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...billion to buy CBS. And even as two of the three major networks changed hands within 48 hours, the House passed a bill scrapping the regulations that have governed the industry for the past six decades. "The landscape for the entertainment industry is completely different now," says John Turo, an analyst with Rodman & Renshaw, a Chicago-based brokerage firm. "From here on we should expect to see continued consolidation within the industry, a consolidation that will move along at a crushing speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASY AS ABC | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...preparation for tonight's contest against Springfield Commerce Richards big men Turo Russell and Rudy Williams, were throwing Dr. J moves at their imaginary foes and finishing off their moves with stylish slam dunks...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rindge Tech, Cambridge Latin Vie for State Titles | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...Turo Russell slaps the ball down to the floor with his fingertips, and with a short skip starts the first of five steps that will carry him from halfcourt to the edge of the rim, where he balances the ball, and then glances back over his head as it falls through...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: Warriors Return for Rugged Season | 12/16/1975 | See Source »

...Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT? ...and you thought Big Time Wrestling was dead | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

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