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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might ask, is this close encounter different from any other? Well, because Firmage, 28, is an Internet whiz kid whose consulting company, USWeb, is worth about $2 billion. And because Firmage last week published a 240-page version of his magnum opus, The Truth, on his website. And finally, because his yen for space travel hasn't yet cost him his life, but it has now cost...
...exec may have got all he can out of the clip-show format, even though the Spouses show does offer a very promising, Springeresque twist. The genre's leading producers are moving on to the next generation of really ridiculous programming: stunt TV. Nash is bringing back a version of the '50s show You Asked for It, only instead of viewers asking to see the vault at Fort Knox, they'll be treated to five-legged pigs and lady sumo wrestlers. Nelson's next project is Crash Test, in which producers pick things to blow up. (The first two ideas...
...right: learning to dictate to the machine was trickier than I had supposed. For instance, I pronounce the article "a" as "uh," but the machine understood it only if I said "ay." Also, Gervais admitted, there was a bug in my version (3.01) of the software that cut off the first utterance of any dictation. That bug has been squashed. Now the device is getting better than 90% accuracy and types "tomato" just...
Private Confessions (known in Europe as Private Conversations, after Martin Luther's term for his version of the sacrament of penance) is the last of a trilogy of films about his parents. All three--the others are the 1982 Fanny and Alexander and the 1992 Best Intentions--were made as Swedish TV serials, then condensed for theatrical release. This film, directed by Bergman's lustrous actress Liv Ullmann, is the finest of the three. It distills four lives into a series of chats, revelatory confessions, between a woman and the men in her life...
...told them, was stuck with a ballooning bill for this ugly year. Approval of the G.O.P. Congress is in the 40% range and falling. Something had to be done quickly, so a group of Senators held a press conference Friday morning to announce plans to introduce the G.O.P. version of legislation for a patients' bill of rights. There will be more to come, in a hurry. "We are in a real hole here," says a G.O.P. leadership aide. "We are getting blamed for this, and we must become more relevant to what people's lives are about...