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Mon, 06 Dec 1999 17:00:00 +0000

Jim Moloshok sits comfortably astride what may be the Web's next big thing -- or what could be the latest in its history of costly entertainment bombs. Entertaindom, Time Warner's multimillion-dollar entertainment hub launched last week, is the culmination of two years' hard work by the 50-year-old president of Warner Bros. Online and a crew of 100.

Moloshok's easy-going manner and affable story-telling ways evidence no fear of failure; instead, he conveys a contagious excitement about the project at hand. Moloshok wants to be the first to use the Web to give prime-time TV a run for its money. So, in addition to the usual entertainment portal fare -- a jukebox, movie clips and news from Entertainment Weekly -- he has commissioned original animated "Webisodes" for Entertaindom. Probably the edgiest of the original content is The God & Devil Show, an animated talk show hosted by that eponymous couple, created by Mondo Media. It features caricatures of celebrities -- starting with Keith Richards; after an interview, fans can send the celeb to heaven or hell; they can also listen to the Devil's answering machine message or ask God a question. The site also streams shorts of cartoon classics like "Marvin the Martian" and full-length original Looney Tunes cartoons that have been digitized.

That's Ms. hippie chick to you

Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:29:00 +0000

The Summer of Love was over, and for some, it was good riddance to
something that kept people's attention off the real problem -- ending the war
in Vietnam. The movement had kicked off 1967 with the nationwide
mobilization against the war and ushered in the fall with Stop the Draft
Week in Oakland. By winter, movement leaders were committed to
using whatever means necessary to stop the fighting.

To hear the male activists tell it today, the anti-war movement also brought
about women's liberation. But the women tell a very different story.
They say that as radical politics tore up the streets, sexual politics heated up the kitchen.

Jahanara Romney remembers sitting in her converted school bus in front of
the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Washington, D.C., that winter
while a posse of Native American protesters, led by Russell Means, was barricaded inside.

Salon.com > Susan Kuchinskas

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