Word: wyle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special event" yesterday, 13 months after the first iMac was unveiled, Apple interim CEO and Noah Wyle lookalike Steve Jobs launched four new products: three new iMacs and a new version of the Macintosh operating system called OS9. Besides keeping its promise to upgrade its product lines more or less annually, and giving its fans something to ask Santa for, the announcement revealed Apple as firmly seated on three bandwagons: the Internet, desktop video and privacy...
...primarily on the turbulent Jobs, an adopted child who spends his life creating, and then rejecting, alternative identities, in true '60s seeker style. "One of the things that most fascinates me about him is his ability to blend Eastern philosophy with Western business techniques," says ER's Noah Wyle, who took the role after watching the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds. "Nowadays every high-powered agent has Sun Tzu on his desk; he was the first person I know of who did that." Apple, for Jobs, was a messianic imperative: give the world a Mac, and the rest...
Although the showier role belongs to Wyle, who ably trades the blue-blood reserve of ER's Carter for Jobs' loose-limbed swagger, the movie's secret weapon is Anthony Michael Hall, whose work here will startle viewers who recall only the nerdy teen who kept hitting on Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. "This was a huge opportunity for me," says Hall, clearly thrilled at this escape from Ex-Child Star Hell. "I saw it as an incredible gift--a chance to reinvent myself...
...that admit to outright perjury or obstruction of justice. The Republican strategy, cooked up before the election, seemed to be that eliciting denials from the White House on some issues would justify further hearings into these matters. That's another wish that may prove problematic. "We're like Wyle E. Coyote," said a conservative Republican staff member. "We've strapped on the rockets, and now we're headed straight into a wall...
Past extern sponsors include a rural sheep farmer, Hollywood filmmaker Claudia Wyle and New York City mayoral candidate Ruth W. Messinger...