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 PBS Studies Spanish-American War
- ``It was all about that battleship of Maine,'' trumpeted the old song, paying homage to
the fabled cause of the United States' first 20th century conflict. ``Crucible of Empire:
The Spanish-American War'' opens with the jingoistic tune about the doomed ship and then
proceeds to vividly unravel the true complexity of America's venture into war and
imperialism...
Prosecutor To Exhume Sheppard's Body
- The Cuyahoga County prosecutor has ordered the exhumation of the wife of Dr. Sam
Sheppard, whose murder conviction and later acquittal helped inspire the TV series and
movie ``The Fugitive.'' Prosecutor William Mason told The Plain Dealer newspaper
that he wants to exhume the body of Marilyn Sheppard to do his own analysis for the
upcoming trial in a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit filed by Sheppard's son, Sam Reese
Sheppard...
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Warren Beatty in Presidential Run?
- Ronald Reagan became president, so why not fellow actor Warren Beatty, who played a
brutally honest politician in the 1998 movie ``Bulworth''?
TV Show Goofs on Great Lake Question
- A graduate student will get a second chance at $1 million after a game show goofed when
it ruled that his answer on a $64,000 question was wrong. David Honea, a doctoral
student in computer engineering from Raleigh, had won $32,000 on ABC's new prime-time show
``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.'' But in the show, taped Wednesday and broadcast Thursday
night, he was stopped in a quest for $1 million by a question on which of the five Great
Lakes is the second largest in area after Lake Superior...
Tinseltown Trash - Fowl-mouthed, lazy celebs
exposed... Since this article will quickly digress, let's start out with some happy
gossip: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett were the perfect guests at a hotel in London. Not only
did they bring their own sheets and make their own bed every morning, they also handed out
$150 tips to everyone. Now that's class...
William Shatner finds wife dead in pool
- Actor William Shatner found his wife dead in the swimming pool of their home late
Monday, the victim of an apparent drowning that authorities said they were treating as an
accident. Nerine Kidd, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics...
Actor Victor Mature Dies at 86 -
"Victor Mature, the brawny star of the 1940s and '50s who played Samson in ``Samson
and Delilah'' and Doc Holliday in John Ford's ``My Darling Clementine,'' has died. He was
86..."
Artists do the rights thing - The Web
gives bands like the Beastie Boys a place to market music and merchandise -- but only if
they can hold onto their digital rights...
Jerry Springer Rules Out Senate Run
- Talk show host Jerry Springer said Friday he won't run for the U.S. Senate next year
because of other obligations. Springer, often criticized for his show's brawling guests
and trashy topics, had been considering running against Republican Senator Mike DeWine...
Oz Says 'Bowfinger' Not for Kids -
"Frank Oz directs with the bombastic style of Miss Piggy and the Jedi skills of Yoda
when he makes one of his trademark off-kilter comedies. After all, he gave life to those
world-famous puppets so they must pull his strings occasionally..."
Video Game Characters 'Learning' -
In their virtual world, Earl, Eddie and Elliott are losers. In real life, researchers hope
the motley trio can help usurp the violent, search-and-destroy style computer and video
games popular among many young players...
Heston mesmerizes packed theater -
"Charlton Heston mesmerized a packed theater with memories of Jimmy Stewart, Orson
Welles and Robert De Niro - all to help a young drama student pay his college fees. The
75-year-old star of "Ben Hur" and "The Planet of the Apes" agreed to
appear at the Roses Theater at Tewkesbury after student Nick Wilkes wrote to ask..."
Iron Giant Walks Web - To the delight of
tech-fantasy movie fans, Warner Bros. released a 10-minute segment of its animated film
The Iron Giant. But it won't be in usual trailer form -- this preview is via the World
Wide Web. Director Brad Bird selected his favorite scenes for the cybercast...
Writers Finding Muse in Dreams -
Stephen King had written about 700 pages of the novel ``It'' when he got stuck. He went to
bed frustrated, thinking about what should happen next. The answer emerged in a
nightmare as scary as the horror story he was writing...
HBO's 'Sopranos' Leads Emmys - The
Sopranos,'' HBO's critically acclaimed series about a mobster in suburbia, captured a
leading 16 Emmy nominations today and became the first cable program recognized in the
best dramatic series category...
PBS Will Fight For Federal
Funding - Under fire on Capitol Hill for sharing its donor lists with the
Democrats, PBS is determined to fight for its federal funding, even if it represents only
14 percent of its budget. The Public Broadcasting Service argues that the subsidy is
more important than the small percentage might suggest, since it triggers other donations
and its elimination would represent a major philosophical shift...
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'Blair Witch' scares off 'Runaway Bride'
- "Runaway Bride" was last weekend's runaway at the box office, but "The
Blair Witch "Project" scared away the rest of the competition...
BBC Domination of British TV Wanes
- "For just $11.25 a head, visitors to an attraction in central London called
The BBC Experience can participate in British Broadcasting Corp.'s lavish and loving
tribute to itself. Having crackled to life on the airwaves more than 75 years ago,
the government-supported broadcasting behemoth surely is deserving of such a touristy
fuss..."
Musical Estate of Bach's Son Found -
More than 50 years after it was lost in the chaos of World War II, a trove of music
written by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered in Ukraine. The music, part of
the missing archives of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, a still-performing group established in
1791, was found in Kiev after a 20-year search by a Harvard music professor...
Harrelson Testifies in Drug Case
- "Woody Harrelson has come to the defense of a California man who is trying to fight
federal drug charges by using the state's new medical marijuana law..."
Keanu Reeves slated
for more 'Matrix' - "For the millions of people around the world who
flocked to see "The Matrix," there's new reason to be happy. Even though Keanu
Reeves is committed to a second installment of the burgeoning blockbuster techno-flick
series - at a price tag worth $20 million - it now appears that there'll be even more of
"Matrix" to come..."
Pediatricians Suggest Limits on TV
- Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po have something to say to pediatricians: Back off,
docs. The distributor of ``Teletubbies,'' the only television show aimed at children
younger than 2, says the American Academy of Pediatrics' advice to keep those youngsters
away from the tube is unrealistic for today's parents...
Lou Reed: Music and books - Lou Reed, New
York City's quintessential artist, is currently working on a new album, scheduled to be
finished by the end of September. Reed, who is working with a band made up of Fernando
Saunders, Tony "Thunder" Smith, and Mike Rathke, has fourteen songs recorded for
the new set, which is expected to be released in early 2000...
Crocodile Dundee Killed in Shootout -
A rugged Australian whose experiences inspired the lead character in the movie ``Crocodile
Dundee'' was killed in a gun battle after shooting a police officer to death, officials
said today. Police named the dead gunman as Rodney William Ansell, 44, of Urapunga
ranch...
Filmmaker Makes 'Blair Witch' Claim
- The makers of the surprise hit horror movie ``The Blair Witch Project'' are being sued
by a former partner who says he was cheated out of a credit on the film and deserves some
of the millions of dollars the movie is reaping...
Net piracy presents paradox to
entertainers - That will be issue du jour when Hollywood moguls rub shoulders
with tech leaders this week. Entertainment giants such as Universal Studios and
Lucasfilm Ltd. are feverishly working to combat digital piracy, threatening to sic their
lawyers on Web sites offering purloined material from the movies they produce...
Blair Witch's online magic - The summer
sleeper "The Blair Witch Project" has crept into popular consciousness like a
spell cast over theatergoers -- due in part to a little cyberspace hocus pocus.
While the $25,000 horror flick's marketing approach has raised eyebrows in Hollywood
boardrooms, Internet circles are rife with talk its rookie filmmakers brewed up intense
online buzz about the film, helping it smash per-screen box office records in limited
distribution...
"The Blair Witch Project"
- Technique Helps Terrify Viewers - "The Blair Witch Project'' is
turning out to be a spellbinder that has some moviegoers asking for a reality check. The
film's mock-documentary technique follows three young filmmakers who vanish in the woods
near Burkittsville, Md., as they track a 200-year-old legendary witch. It's scary stuff
for some - and apparently realistic...
Mosh Pits Are Roiling and Dangerous
- Mosh pits can be a roiling, fearsome place to be during a rock concert. But the biggest
danger has usually been broken bones, not sexual assault...
Zen And The Art Of The Mosh Pit -
Slam-dancing is an art. A Mosh pit is a collection of artists who practice the art of
slam-dancing. There are mediocre artists and there are artists who transcend boundaries of
artistic standards. In the pit there are just as many Paula Abduls and Madonnas as there
are Fred Astaires and James Browns...
Rights in Cyberspace - I come from what could
be called the province of the empire, and I've seen the dynamics of the technological
transformation from a particular point of view that is particularly stimulating. After
all, maybe, it's true what was said by the science fiction writer, Richard Kadrey:
"Nothing interesting happens at the center. Everything interesting happens at the
edges..."
Digital actors
get thumbs down from critics - Thirty-five members of the Los Angeles Film
Critics Association have officially voiced their disapproval over Warner Bros. decision to
use digital actors to cover up the naughty bits in an orgy scene of "Eyes Wide
Shut." The surprisingly distracting figures, the studio maintains, were necessary to
secure the film an "R" rating...
Stone agrees to give
NBK deposition - "Oliver Stone apparently has agreed to give a
deposition in a lawsuit accusing his movie, "Natural Born Killers," of
triggering a violent attack...
NPR's Lost and Found Sound -
"Quest for Sound" is a call
to listeners to send in their home recordings of the last one hundred years to be shaped
into stories that capture the rituals and sounds of everyday life... (In Real Audio)
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