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Pirates Are Always Late (2/23/99)
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For those of you who are counting the days until "Pirates of Silicon Valley" premieres on TNT, you're going to have to add thirty-one. An article at Mac OS World alerted us to the fact that the premiere date has mysteriously shifted from its original May 20th to June 20th. If you've programmed your VCR three months in advance, you should remember to adjust the date-- and you might want to look into the possibility of perhaps developing some outside interests. Seriously.
"Pirates," for the uninitiated, is TNT's upcoming movie blockbuster that portrays the forging of Apple and Microsoft by following Steve Jobs and Bill Gates "from the dorm room to the board room" and tracing their "passion, luck, and genius." (We at AtAT assume that the passion and genius they describe belong to Steve-- you can decide for yourself where the luck resides.) Noah "Dr. John Carter" Wyle stars as Steve Jobs-- a fitting role, given that actor's penchant for Macs. Batting for the other team is Anthony Michael Hall, the omnipresent geek in 80's-era John Hughes teen angst flicks, portraying Mr. Gates. Typecast much, Anthony? It's good to see him getting back to his roots after making those regrettable forays into playing dumb jocks in Johnny Be Good and Edward Scissorhands (though we still want to see him as the murderous sculptor wannabe in the 1995 made-for-TV remake of Roger Corman's beatnik horror classic, Bucket of Blood. C'mon, he stars opposite Justine "Mallory Keaton" Bateman! How can you go wrong?).
No reason is given for the delay, though we expect it's probably just the usual production snafus rearing their ugly heads. Oh, sure, it's possible that one or both of the real-life Silicon Valley bigwigs portrayed in the flick are pulling strings to delay the movie's appearance, but we don't see much point. Nope, we're going to forgo the typical conspiracy theories of which we're so fond and chalk it all up to everyday production issues. Yep, nothing untoward here. And we're definitely not being paid to say this. Now excuse us, as we have a Porsche to go buy...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/23/99 episode: February 23, 1999: TNT's tell-all portrayal of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates has been mysteriously pushed back a month. Meanwhile, despite earlier reports to the contrary, apparently Bell Atlantic still steadfastly refuses to accept ADSL business from Mac users, and the first software that exploits Intel's Pentium III serial number system surfaces...
Other scenes from that episode: 1360: Kafka Would Be Proud (2/23/99) It's always sad when an apparent victory turns into a devastating loss. You will all probably recall a lone Mac user's valiant struggle to change Bell Atlantic's boneheaded policy of not supporting any non-iMac Macs for its high-speed ADSL Internet access... 1361: Foolproof, Sort Of (2/23/99) Well, heck-- that didn't take long. Remember all the controversy over Intel's new Pentium III? Basically, several privacy advocates are concerned about a new feature that Intel added to the processor, which functions as a software-readable serial number...
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