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...render Web pages so that a complete page can be viewed vertically on mobile screens and look the same as it does on a PC. "With our technology, mobile users can visit any page on the World Wide Web, not just special pages," says Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner. Opera's break-through, the latest salvo in the mobile browser wars, is part of a broader fight to dominate the wireless Web, which is heating up now that third-generation mobile phones are finally hitting the market. For now, the focus is on browser technology; the next stage, programmable...
...Baltimore, the self-proclaimed Hairdo Capital of the World. On Corny Collins' afternoon rock 'n roll show, white teenagers perform all the latest dances and are local heroes to every adolescent. Chief among these starlets is Amber Von Tussle, a snooty princess whose mom, Miss Soft Crab of 1945, pours all her ambition into Amber. Every afternoon the pouty miss must practice the cha-cha and the Mashed Potato under Mom's eagle eye. "I want you to get more close-ups on that show," Mom admonishes, "or I'm sending you to Catholic school!" Eeuuuu...
...kids on the show who look like the kids who watch the show." (Jerry Springer later took that idea and honed it to putting people on his show who were even dumber, uglier and more deranged than the people who watched it.) But the show's producer, Velma Von Tussle (Linda Hart), insists on keeping the cast prim and pretty, with her blond daughter Amber (Laura Bell Bundy) as the Shrewish American Princess and hunky Link Larkin (Matthew Morrison) as her consort...
...Enlightened and emboldened, Tracy leads picketers against Corky's all-white show. All the ladies are arrested and land in the custody of a nasty prison matron ("Think of me as a mother - who eats her young"). The Von Tussles get sprung because Amber once had done a, let's call it a favor for the governor. Tracy is aghast, as any good Democrat would be, in 1962 or 2000: "Manipulating the judicial system just to win a contest is unethical!" Tracy, alone in her cell, is visited by the now lovestruck Link. "You look beautiful!" he rhapsodizes...
...crew troops down the cobblestone, ostensibly toward the Fly, a shuttle pulls to the corner and Simmons is coaxed on board by a friend. They gossip about the previous night’s wine party that got shut down and Von Tobel leads an enthusiastic rendition of “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling.” Once in the Quad, Simmons and what is now a 15-person entourage head to Cabot. The girls push and cajole their way up the stairs and past the party’s designated doorman. Inside, Simmons...