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...producers. FM’s confidential sources high within the show’s internal party structure partly refute this claim, however, alleging that only after much heated debate did a lesbian kiss barely edge out an Ebola outbreak as the show’s next periodic extraordinary dramatic twist...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Daytime TV to get First Lesbian Kiss; Harvard To Get Zillonth | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...mock sitcom “A Very Special Episode” makes all the clichéd jokes about TV dramas, and the Broadway version of The Karate Kid is of course a heartfelt (if at times off-key) rendition of street fighting with a musical twist.  Still, the jokes work precisely because they are predictable—and the energy with which the actors pull them off is a delight to watch...

Author: By Sandra E. Pullman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review: Pool Show Draws Laughs | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...trying to get some work done, while Henry (John Turturro) is using all his wiles to get their 6-year-old to go to sleep. The complication: another couple - Henry's boss and his wife - unexpectedly show up for dinner, one night before they are supposed to. The twist: the ensuing evening is replayed three different times, representing three alternate versions of how this uncomfortable situation might play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond: Three Shows That Probably Won't Save the Great White Way | 4/5/2003 | See Source »

...year-old gymnast became queen of the Montreal Games by making history as the first to rate a perfect score in the Olympics--on the uneven bars, punctuated by a backwards half-twist dismount. She followed with a perfect score on the balance beam. The Forum, normally filled with raucous French Canadian hockey fans, was instead roaring with appreciation for a 4-ft. 11-in., 86-lb. Romanian who would finish the Games with seven perfect 10s, three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Comaneci launched a thousand gymnastics clubs that night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances to Savor | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...Arnaud, 41, is leading the growth of Lagardere's media division, with about $8 billion in annual sales. Last October Arnaud agreed to acquire the book-publishing arm of ailing Vivendi Universal for $1.25 billion--giving Lagardere an estimated 70% of the French book market. In a strange twist, a shadowy Swiss-based firm with links to Iraq and possibly Saddam Hussein owns about 2% of Lagardere's shares, but the holdings were frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting On Heirs | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

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