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...distributor, however, is convinced that Americans are ready to commit. "Reality TV has demonstrated that the American public will get behind a character for a short period," says Bob Cook, president of Twentieth Television, the development and production unit of Fox. Cook has adapted two telenovelas to air in September: Table for Three, a love triangle involving two brothers in a Mafia family, and Fashion House, starring Bo Derek as the powerful queen of a fashion empire. Each show will air daily for 13 weeks, with recap episodes on the weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Telenovela Revolution | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...telenovela producers will be spending only an estimated $100,000 to $500,000 an episode. They won't have to pay for superstar salaries (comedian Ray Romano took home $2 million an episode), expensive writers ("adapters" are paid as little as $50,000 a year) or elaborate shoots. Twentieth Television has plotted out the story arcs for both of its shows and will shoot them jointly to create more efficiency, Cook says. By just changing the lighting, for example, producers can use the same set for scenes in both shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Telenovela Revolution | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...desk. 10) [Biology] Damn, let’s see...the leg bone’s connected to the...knee bone, and the knee bone’s connected to the...fuck. 11) [Spanish] No, no puede. 12) [Philosophy] This question can be answered through the work of the great twentieth century philosopher David Koresh. 13) [Statistics] Here’s a statistic for you: nine inches. Soft. 14) [VES] I would like to answer this question in the form of an interpretive dance.* 15) [MR 54: “If there is no God, is all permitted...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Topic Sentences For Your Final Exams | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...original mandate. “I catch up the stuff I haven’t been able to do before, I try to clean out accumulated bits of work, I breathe easier I must confess during reading period,” he says. Reading period has shrunk throughout the twentieth century, however. In 1994, The Crimson reported that the Undergraduate Council and the Committee on Undergraduate Education had shortened spring reading period by two days due to the College’s attempt to equalize the calendar. Today, the litany of reading period complaints range from students required to hand...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Constructing the Period | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Sentinel | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

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