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...field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...
...boundary between science and science fiction -- in that twilight area where the imaginative sleuthing of paleontology meets the storytelling craft of filmmaking -- lies Jurassic Park. The technicians working with director Steven Spielberg on the film version of Michael Crichton's best seller spared no effort or expense to make the story's dinosaurs as accurate as current knowledge permitted. Dinosaur fans from youth, they cared about getting it right. But on a movie screen, footnotes are not allowed. "We were trying to be credible," co-producer Kathleen Kennedy says. "But we were also making a movie...
...that, 25 three-putts and two four-putts by five golfers made the round Twilight Zone material...
...about the Habsburg Empire than most of them ever wanted to know? What mattered was that his thesis (a debt-ridden U.S. was fast running the risk of "imperial overstretch") perfectly captured the edgy mood of the late Reagan years, as opinion leaders began to brood that it was twilight in America...
...most folks, deja vu may provoke a momentary shudder, the creepy sense of having sidestepped into the twilight zone. For Hollywood, though, it is a guiding principle. The industry wants audiences to feel they have seen this ( thing before but don't know where or when. Nearly every movie plot is a reprise of a story that has already worked. Recombinant familiarity means box office; originality is an orphan, subversive and suspect...