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1999 Stories by Robert Lloyd

• Rick Danko, 1942 - 1999

  published December 23, 1999

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• Filthy Lucre

  published December 16, 1999

  And so we end the 20th century with the question Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? And they‘re asking it all over the world, the original U.K... More >>

• Crime Time Players

  published December 2, 1999

  The oldest stories are about broken rules. In the Judeo-Christian version of history, as soon as there are two people in the world, one of them... More >>

• Spun City

  published November 18, 1999

  Even before I first set foot upon the island of Manhattan, at the tender age of 20, I was well-schooled in its particulars, its criss-cross... More >>

• Sketch Artists

  published November 18, 1999

  ”When I think about the pay scale we worked under back then,“ says Michael McKean, remembering the early ‘70s and the bad ... More >>

• All the President's Wonks

  published November 4, 1999

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• Tyro Mania

  published October 21, 1999

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• Pigs

  published October 14, 1999

  Hollywood‘s love-hate relationship with its bad self is at the heart of, in back of and all over the bright new Fox sitcom Action, much in th... More >>

• The Empire of the Air

  published September 23, 1999

  A friend of mine, asked once what he wanted out of life, replied, “I want to be entertained.” This was an amusing thing to say, but he was... More >>

• Family Matters

  published September 9, 1999

  At 10 big hours, Jennifer Fox’s An American Love Story, an extended visit with an interracial couple and their couple of kids, rumbles in lik... More >>

• Justice

  published August 26, 1999

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• Real Cartoon World

  published August 12, 1999

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• The Green Monster

  published July 29, 1999

  MTVTHE TALK SHOW MAY BE TELEVISION'S ESSENTIAL format, its most original and idiosyncratic invention. With its comfy chairs and tables and mugs of... More >>

• Oh, the Humanity

  published July 15, 1999

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• Hoops, Hogs and High Speeds

  published July 1, 1999

  Photo by Michael GibsonSHOWTIME'S THE HOOP LIFE IS THE THIRD AND LATEST series from the so-far reliable production team of Barry Levinson... More >>

• Of Chimps and Men

  published June 24, 1999

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• The Ayn Who Shagged Me

  published June 3, 1999

  THE RARITY WITH WHICH TELEVISION ENGAGES higher culture may be measured by the inordinate pride a network displays when it does adapt a literary... More >>

• The Wild, The Innocent, The Pugilistic Shuffle

  published May 20, 1999

  Photo by M. GrossmanWITH THE NEWS THAT GARY OLDMAN HAS SIGNED to play Pontius Pilate in an upcoming CBS TV movie about the life of Jesus -- the... More >>

• Darkness and Light

  published May 13, 1999

  Photo by Walter WoodwardTHUG LIFE IN D.C., AN "AMERICA UNDERCOVER" documentary from HBO about incarceration in our nation's capital -- not... More >>

• Gone North

  published April 29, 1999

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• The Vile, Vile West

  published April 22, 1999

  Photo Joe Lederer/HBOTALL, DARK AND HANDSOME JOHN CUSACK, WEARING the twin hats of leading man and executive producer -- or, more accurately,... More >>

• Life in the 31st Century

  published April 1, 1999

  Photo by Anne FishbeinBEGIN WITH THE SIGNATURE. NOT THE PLUMP, flowing cursive of Walt Disney or Walt Kelly or Walter Lantz, other great men of... More >>

• Road Movies

  published March 25, 1999

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• Public Jocks, Private Dicks

  published March 11, 1999

  Photo: UPI/Corbis-BettmanTHERE'S NOTHING FANCY ABOUT HBO'S DARE TO Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports, just the usual... More >>

• Hoops and Hoods

  published February 25, 1999

  Photo by Erik HeinlaPassing Glory, a TNT movie about basketball, civil rights and the generation gap in 1960s New Orleans, unites and... More >>