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Fifteen More Minutes (8/26/98)
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The competition is heating up in the race to immortalize the tumultuous history of Apple Computer on the small screen. Last June we told you about an upcoming HBO miniseries about Apple's past, which, as far as we know, is still planned. Now we find out that TNT is planning its own made-for-TV movie about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and all the other "high-tech superstars" who appear regularly on AtAT. CNET has more details, culled from a Variety magazine article.
TNT's project, currently saddled with the unfortunate working title of "Pirates of Silicon Valley," (arrrrr, matey!) is expected to tell "the true story" of the "fierce battles" between the "computer visionaries" and how their "empire has changed the world." There are some interesting casting choices going on, too: ER's Noah Wyle (whom several AtAT viewers suggested when we were discussing the HBO miniseries) is in talks to play Jobs, and Anthony Michael Hall has reportedly agreed to return to his geek roots from classics such as The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles and will assume the role of Gates. Poor Anthony; we thought he had escaped the nerd typecasting when he played a mean dumb jock in Edward Scissorhands. Expect to see "Pirates" hit the airwaves sometime in 1999.
Now, as several faithful viewers have pointed out, AtAT's beaten both HBO and TNT to the punch with the whole "Apple as entertaining story of intrigue" thing. We'll be consulting our legal department to see just what our options are in terms of recourse. Not that we'd ever want to suppress any additional media exposure for Apple; we're just wondering if we can weasel our way into getting free cable for life, or something. You know that Ted Turner has some mighty deep pockets.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/26/98 episode: August 26, 1998: Steve says it's the ISP's, the ISP's say it's the modem init string, let's call the whole thing off. Meanwhile, HBO aren't the only ones looking to make a movie about Apple's past, and Quark tries to buy Adobe, who's fallen on hard times...
Other scenes from that episode: 969: Finger-Pointing Galore (8/26/98) Whoopsie, not everyone's convinced by Steve Jobs' insistence that the iMac connection problems are entirely the fault of the ISP's. According to a ZDNet article, some ISP's are taking offense at the suggestion that they're not v.90-compliant, such as PowerNet Online, who claims to have had true v.90 dialins for five months but still has iMac customers with problems... 971: Adobe for Sale (8/26/98) Yes, kiddies, it's all true: last week, Quark (makers of the widely-popular Quark XPress publishing software) offered to buy its struggling competitor Adobe. Adobe nixed the idea with a "thanks but no thanks," claiming that the "friendly" buyout offer didn't actually contain many important details, including, say, a price...
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