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...Ever wish you could make your own ESPN “SportsCenter” commercial? Now you can! “SportsCenter” anchors Dan Patrick and Trey Wingo teach you the tricks of the trade behind directing, producing and acting in “SportsCenter” commercials. Students will watch prior commercials, write weekly response papers on current ESPN proposals and invent new ideas. Students must prepare their own commercial in small groups to present as a final project. Readings include Marshall McLuhan’s Media and the American Mind and Professor Patrick?...
This has sitcom and drama writers praying for the reality bust. "The networks only have so much time and resources," says Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator of Gilmore Girls. "Rather than solely focusing on convincing the Olsen twins to allow themselves to be eaten by bears in prime time, I wish they would focus on coming up with something that would really last." TV does seem to be in overkill mode, as the networks have signed up dozens of dating shows, talent searches and other voyeurfests. And like an overheated NASDAQ, the reality market is bound to correct. But unlike earlier...
Congress will do some reviewing too. Both the House and Senate are ginning up for hearings into the disaster. President Bush, a Texan who has reason to wish the home-state space program well, declared his support for NASA last week, but space-agency employees remain worried. "It's really pretty somber here," says a NASA contractor at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "People are worried about layoffs, like after Challenger." In New Orleans, the work force at the Lockheed Martin plant that applies the foam to the shuttles' external tanks had already fallen from 4,800 before...
...songs. The tune is rough, but the melody sweet. Words flow from memory?about Gobi-Altai and the land, about saddling up your best horse to ride across the valley. When it's over, Bayarsakhan stares at the ground. "I get sad when I play that," he says. "I wish I could take you to my home. It's so beautiful there." He looks up, smiles, then starts another tune, singing softly about a mother's beauty and the tears she shed when her son moved away. Bayarsakhan's brothers join in, then his wife and sister...
...page first issue of Shonen Jump?Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z, SandLand, YuYu Hakusho and One Piece?have nuanced story arcs that may not be resolved for years. For example, the archives of Dragon Ball Z?a tale of galactic war over a set of wish-granting orbs?run to 8,000 pages printed over more than a decade. But Shonen Jump may not need to appeal to hard-core superhero junkies. Anime Insider's Bricken says most people who bought the first issue were not regular comic buyers; sales came primarily from mainstream retail outlets, such as bookstores...