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...upfront presentation Monday, at Radio City Music Hall, it was a Christmas where the network did a bit of - to borrow a term from Seinfeld - "regifting." The network announced one drama, set in the early 1960s, that will make liberal use of old footage from "American Bandstand" and NBC News reports. It announced "The Rerun Show," to air perhaps later this summer, in which a troupe of actors will perform scripts from old sitcoms. It announced a few new sitcoms and dramas, several of which bore considerable resemblence to old NBC sitcoms and dramas...
...folks, in case you were wondering, 9/11 can now be used to sell ads on "Just Shoot Me." I'd like to say this is the most revolting thing I ever expect to see at an upfront, but, hey, the week is only...
...course, it's not an upfront without an after-party, and NBC's put a chilly bit of a damper on what should have been a bright day for the season's most commercially successful network: an unseasonably cold May rainstorm forced the Rockefeller Center party crew to throw up tents, as waiters continually swept away a half-inch of rainwater with brooms. (Insert metaphor for the networks vainlly trying to sweep away the tide of cable and audience fragmentation here.) Still it didn't stop your valiant reporter from rubbernecking at Ashleigh Banfield (who held court around a teensy...
...ejection from Kuwait would alienate Washington's Arab allies. And on a practical level, many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that overthrowing Saddam would create a dangerous power vacuum. Remember, before 1991, the U.S. had seen Saddam as a strategic counterweight to Iran, and the fact that the majority of Iraq's population is either Shiite Muslim or Kurdish had raised concerns that...
Grizzle says he will be upfront about his religious views. “We think what they’re doing is wrong,” he explains. “But we love them and want to spend time with them.” But Blake J. Boulerice ’04, a member of the Student Affairs Committee that approved Grizzle’s grant and the sponsor of the resolution that created the fund, says it is counterintuitive to combat homophobia by saying that homosexuality is wrong...