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...Warner's decision not to carry the fledgling Fox News Channel on its cable systems. Fox sued Time Warner, arguing it broke an agreement to carry the channel, an agreement Time Warner says never existed. While both sides try to win fans' favor, neither side will be spared the wrath of football fanatics if they can't reach an agreement and keep the NFL on television...
...showed once again that he fails to appreciate the talents of the original Trek cast. He writes about Patrick Stewart's performance in the new movie: "Here is real acting! In a Star Trek film! From the successor to William Shatner!" Corliss has not yet learned to fear the wrath of the original "classic" Trekkers. It was not necessary for him to offend a pop-culture icon like Shatner in order to glorify the talent of his progeny. CAROLE N. SHIRK Leola, Pennsylvania...
...Clive, the bland boyfriend (Les Welter, an MFA candidate in theater arts), he helps the conflict roll along, siding with the daughter only to fall to her wrath later for inquiring about personal details. His character seems entirely superfluous, and does not really contribute to the development of the play...
Having been attacked by some U.S. church groups over last year's controversial film Priest, the Walt Disney Co. is no stranger to protest. Now the company has incurred the wrath of a government. China's leaders hotly object to Disney's plans to distribute Kundun, a Martin Scorsese-directed film currently in production that tells the story of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China's leaders get to play the villains, and they are not amused, to the point of making threatening noises about Disney's future in the great market of the future...
...explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates a decidedly modern curiosity about nature, an openness...