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  Amusements 4/22/99

   • j********o@***.com
     22/04/1999 00:00:000 UTC

     The Family Guy is funny but way too profane for broadcast TV, especially
     after

     the Simpsons, in the Sunday Family Hour yet!

     Cute Fox joke on the X-Files: a scene at a cemetery features a double

     gravestone for a man and woman who both died in 1994. Their name was
     Salinger:

     if memory serves, those plucky orphans on Party Of Five are so-named and
     lost

     both parents in an accident.

     Gorno

       • j********o@***.com
         18/05/1999 00:00:000 UTC

         There was this PBS show called "Voyage of the Mimi," about this
         fictional

         contemporary sailing ship that went on a science cruise through
         South America -

         with non-fiction segments about the science stuff they encountered
         on the way

         featuring the main character, this young teenage boy. (The guy who
         played his

         gruff uncle Captain Granville was in real life a fusion physicist
         from

         Princeton.) Anyway, they've been showing the science segments with
         this kid

         and I happened to watch the end, and the kid was identified as Ben
         Affleck.

         Watching the next segment, I was convinced that this was indeed the
         barely

         recognizeable big-time actor back when he was a kid, which I thought
         was

         somewhat interesting, since I'd watched the show before he was a
         grown up or

         famous. He got to do cool stuff like get compressed to 10
         atmospheres in a

         pressure chamber and scratch the name of the ship under a block at a
         catherdral

         in the science segments.

         Gorno