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Oct. 15, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Sheet Music
"...compared. A lightning-quick read, it details Yetnikoff's tenure at CBS Records, his rise from the legal department to the..."
May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
SXSW Interview: Walter Yetnikoff
Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels
"...Austin Convention Center, Friday, March 19 As head of CBS Records from 1975 to 1990, Walter Yetnikoff amassed an..."
March 19, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets
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Friday night is a terrible night to launch a new series
"...in 2030 Los Angeles, premieres Tuesday at 8pm on CBS. In The Stones, Robert Klein and Judith Light star..."
March 12, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
America Is Confused
"...it did in the nanosecond it was visible on CBS. Ooh, yeah, everyone's so "offended" ... better look at..."
Feb. 3, 2004 Postmarks
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Belinda Acosta is not amused by the two rich chicks on Fox's farm.
"...Hillbillies (my description, not theirs), the reality show that CBS quietly put on the back burner after they received..."
Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
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Fall TV is dead; long live fall TV!
"...front of the tube. Two and a Half Men (CBS), Whoopi (NBC), I'm With Her (ABC), and It's All..."
Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
War Drums
"...of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told CBS News, "We want them to quit, not to fight,..."
Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King
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The good, the bad, and the God on TV.
"...After nine seasons, CBS recently announced this was the last year for the..."
Feb. 14, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
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Happy 300th, The Simpsons.
"...of our time stand? And it's getting worse. While CBS is quietly reconsidering The Real Beverly Hillbillies series, a..."
Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
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Film actors take flight for the small screen.
"...Fred Cantu returns to Austin airwaves Aug. 19 on CBS affiliate K-Eye. Not that he went very far. The..."
Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
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Not only does reality television keep on trucking, it's getting better and better.
"...Race: Survivor may be the No.1 reality series on CBS, but it's The Amazing Race that actually puts some..."
March 15, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Fandemonium!
Television fans who organize to keep their favorite shows on the air, or even don the occasional Star Fleet Commanding Officer's uniform, are often depicted as lonely losers with too much time on their hands. According to TV columnist Belinda Acosta, the truth is quite the opposite.
"...A subsequent letter-writing campaign swelled around CBS's Cagney & Lacey in 1982. This effort ushered in..."
Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
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Life ain't the only thing that's like a box of chocolates -- talk shows are, too!
"...savored before sleep. The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS) is my favorite, followed by Late Night With Conan..."
Jan. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
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Another day, another blah awards show
"...Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Awards broadcast live on CBS. Just what we need, I thought. Another awards show...."
Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
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The Emmy Awards finally come to fruition, local boxer Jesus Chavez hits HBO, and the most delicious diva show on television.
"...do that." When the image of audience member and CBS exec Les Moonves was projected onto the large monitor..."
Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Naked City
The Chronicle gives cheers and jeers to breaking news coverage of the war.
"...announced that bombing of Afghanistan had begun, Fox and CBS calmly kept their cameras focused on what's really important..."
Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Megiddo: The Omega Code Two
"...very, very bad (though sporadically entertaining, like an old CBS Movie of the Week high on millennial jitters), is..."
Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
TV to Air Simulcast Celbrity Benefit
The Big Four networks announce decision to air a simulcast celebrity benefit to aid victims of the terrorist attacks.
"...unprecedented show of solidarity, the Big Four networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) have agreed to jointly broadcast a..."
Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones
TV Eye
PBS delivers the goods.
"...two-hour documentary. It airs Friday, Aug. 31, 7pm, on CBS.Syndication Nation The early seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
The Hightower Lowdown
The media buys the Pentagon's lies, W can't keep his free-market ideology straight, and biotechnology brings us Frankenpigs.
"...One would think that multibillion-dollar media giants (from CBS to CNN, The New York Times to The Washington..."
Aug. 17, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
Blow Up Your Video
MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!
"...compelling video, yet MTV still hedged on airing it. CBS Records, Jackson's label, reportedly threatened to pull all CBS..."
Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets
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No Emmy nominations for Buffy
"...expanded the nonfiction categories, thereby inviting nominees like Survivor (CBS), Eco-Challenge (USA), Road Rules (MTV), and E! True Hollywood..."
July 20, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
The Hightower Lowdown
A real Fourth of July, bushwa from D.C., & airline fairness
"...Old Glory, the logos of McDonald's, IBM, GE, Nike, CBS, Texaco, and other giants shone forth in all their..."
July 6, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
About AIDS
Condom Ads Conspicuously Absent from TV
"...condom ads continue to be nonexistent on network TV. CBS and NBC, along with Fox, technically allow condom ads,..."
June 29, 2001 Column by Sandy Bartlett
Ruling the Roost
Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement
"...Turns out O'Connor had shot a label executive with CBS Records, with whom Nelson had just signed...."
June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer
TV Eye
Talk about your stakes through the heart -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer moves to the UPN and with that, moves out of Austin
"...long as none of the big four -- ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox -- are owned by the same..."
April 27, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Josie and the Pussycats
It's far more subversive than the Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon on which it's based.
"...Daly. Based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon that ran on CBS and then NBC for much of the early-to-mid-Seventies, this..."
April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Coach's Corner
Live sporting events? Barely. TV is choking them to death.
"...throw contests, sandwiched between lengthy, repetitive timeouts so that CBS could air 15 minutes of ads), I had more..."
March 30, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
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"The Flintstones saved me." Belinda Acosta looks at the legacy of William Hanna, who died last week at the age of 90.
"...For details and a full application, go to the CBS.com Web site...."
