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Time Machine (9/13/98)
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Faithful viewer Steve Pissocra breaks radio silence to ask the following:
Did ya see Noah (Steve Jobs) Wyle at the Emmys Sunday night? The beard, the hair, oh man, talk about flashbacks. I thought the braless hammer girl was gonna come barrelin' down the aisle and give the ol' toss right through the middle of one of the ultra cheesy "How TV Has Enriched Our Lives" segments. (No offense to your fine programming of course.)
None taken, Steve. And yes, like the rest of the television programming universe, we were watching the Emmys, though apparently not only did the academy forget to nominate AtAT for "Best Drama" (we really thought we had a chance this year), but they also accidentally neglected to mail us our invitations. So, like millions of "little people" the world over, your friendly (if a little miffed) AtAT staff witnessed the Emmys the way the Gods of Broadcasting truly intended-- on a video screen.
So yes, we did notice Mr. Wyle's hair and beard, and we, too, wondered if he's looking the part of Steve Jobs for the upcoming TNT movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley," in which he's rumored to play Mr. Jobs opposite Anthony Michael Hall's Bill Gates. But we also noticed that the dashing young Noah sports the same scruffy beard in his more well-known role of Carter on ER, at least based on the quick glimpse of him we saw in the promos. So while we consider the telltale facial hair a significant clue as to the truth of the casting rumors, we can't categorize it as conclusive evidence. Heck, maybe he's just going for an older look these days. We're hearing ugly rumors that maturity is coming back into style.
On a semi-related note, we were pleased to see that Apple continues its iMac saturation campaign, as we caught at least three iMac commercials during the Emmys, which are watched by something like a billion people worldwide. The hype machine rolls ever forward, crushing all resistance in its path... ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/13/98 episode: September 13, 1998: Apple continues to support the iMac with superhuman speed, releasing its third support patch in four weeks. Meanwhile, rumors about nifty remote control features of next year's consumer laptop have couch potatoes everywhere abuzz, and Noah Wyle's Emmy appearance, complete with Jobsian facial hair, keeps everyone guessing...
Other scenes from that episode: 1008: Embarrassment of Riches (9/13/98) Good gravy, anyone who doubted that Apple was serious about this whole iMac thing must be reconsidering by now. Only four weeks after the system's release, Apple has issued three-- count 'em, three-- service updates to address various bugs and abnormalities... 1009: Changing Channels (9/13/98) Yes indeedy, the iMac comes with an infrared port all right. Pretty cool, huh? Or, at least it would be, if there were any truly practical applications for that IR port. So far the only thing we've tried to do is wirelessly network the iMac and a PowerBook 1400, to no avail-- we think we got them to see each other for a brief instant, by holding the PowerBook right up against the iMac's port, which is a position we consider untenable at best...
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