FRANK ROSE

Wired, February 2005
South Park and The Daily Show made them number one with the PlayStation generation. But seriously, how do you top Jon Stewart? Inside Comedy Central's R&D lab.

Wired, August 2004
Online gaming all night: Cool. Hour after hour downloading MP3s and porn: No problem. Thirty seconds so you can try to sell me something? Outta here. How the 18-34 male is reinventing advertising.

Wired, April 2004
Motorola is losing its hold on China's mobile phone market. The little local startup that has Moto's number: Ningbo Bird.

Wired, October 2003
What happens when digital video recorders give viewers control of the TV schedule, the content, and the ads? The full story after this 5-second word from our sponsors.

Wired, April 2003
That's why the no-nonsense honcho of Home Shopping Network, Match.com, and Universal is poised to rule the interactive world.

Wired, March 2002
As consolidation sweeps the content and telecom industries, FCC Chairman Michael Powell has a plan: Let's roll.

Wired, May 2001
Can we get to the future from here? First we have to get telecom out of the Stone Age.

Wired, April 2001
The European Commission has a mandate to shape a New Economy policy around the globe. It's called borderless bureaucracy.

Wired, September 2000
Time Warner brings fat pipe and petabytes of content to the AOL party. Plus a little something extra: a history of amazingly expert corporate infighting, ankle-biting, and all-around backstabbing. This is gonna be fun!

Wired, March 2000
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB aims to capture Britain's interactive TV market with a Sun set-top strategy. But a growing Microsoft alliance has different plans.

Fortune, November 8, 1999
American pop culture was going to conquer the world, but now local content is becoming king.

Fortune, March 1, 1999
Let others bulk up on cable. The Seagram heir is challenging Disney in theme parks and laying out billions to be No. 1 in music. Can this possibly work?

Fortune, June 22, 1998
A handful of powerful CEOs are battling for the hearts, minds, and eyeballs of the world's six billion people. But the harder they fight, the more they need each other.

Fortune, July 7, 1997
Striving to make his comeback, CAA's superagent is now an unemployment statistic. Seven lessons to be learned from the fall of the image king.

Fortune, December 23, 1996
Forget HDTV. Forget interactive television. Forget the 500-channel universe. Instead start thinking PCTV.

Fortune, June 24, 1996
They blew it in Paris. They got thrown out of Virginia. Now, looking for a home on Broadway, Team Disney is pouring millions into one of the most crime-ridden blocks in Manhattan. What does Michael Eisner know that you don't?

Esquire, May 1996
CBS thought Darren Star's Central Park West would make the network younger and hipper. CBS was wrong.

The Los Angeles Times Magazine
May 21, 1995
Charming, intelligent and ruthless, Lew Wasserman has been shaking Hollywood since the '30s. When Seagram bought MCA, was he really out of the loop—or was he king of the deal-makers to the last?

Premiere, October 1993
When Tony Perkins played Norman Bates, he pressed his finger firmly against America's psychosexual trigger. One year after his death from AIDS, his story can finally be told.

Premiere, August 1991
Or, how the most powerful agency in Hollywood became a mere shadow of its former self.

Premiere, January 1991
So far, Tim Burton has exercised his febrile imagination on other people's movies. Now he's done a personal project, Edward Scissorhands. Watch out!

Premiere, November 1990
Under Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney became the mouse that roared. Can they keep the money rolling in?

New York, June 25, 1990
Jay Gorney sells art that sends up collectors. "I think my artists are great," he says, "but I'm amazed the world is letting me do this."

The New York Times Magazine
November 8, 1987
In 1968, Alan Kay conceived a truly personal computer—a portable device that would carry an encyclopedia inside its circuits and plug into networks containing the sum of human knowledge. The Dynabook has become his Holy Grail.

GQ, October 1986
The mix of art, big bucks and hype has turned the art world into a frothy soap opera. Which brings us to Julian Schnabel....

Esquire, December 1984
The hypergrowth of an entrepreneur.

Vanity Fair, August 1984
Acolytes of high tech in Santa Cruz speak of computers in terms once used for drugs: expand your mind through software. A report from a land some call Oz.

Esquire, March 1982
There are so many surfers in southern California that they've staked out scraps of beach and chopped up the endless wave. And from the melee emerges a new order of surfer, one who rides with Jesus and waits for Armageddon.

Esquire, November 1980
Start with five multileveled wings, lots of brass nuts and bolts, a crew of 25,000. Fuel it with the international concerns of the American people and the personal ambitions of the entire military establishment. Then cross your fingers.

Reprinted in Esquire & Derby (Italy), Nov.-Dec. 1980

Esquire, April 1980
So the New York rocker who practically invented punk—with three chords, sheer energy, and a rotten attitude—kicked heroin, bought a dinette set, and married Vera, who was, you know...normal.

Village Voice, October 24, 1977
"When I first saw the Ramones I said, 'You guys are the best band in the world!' I went up to them after the set and—'You guys are great! You guys are great!' That's all I could say."

The Village Voice
March 28, 1977
Art, to Eno, is not mere self-expression; getting dressed in the morning is self-expression. Art is life in microcosm.

March 1999

We were expecting fairy-tale châteaux, rambles through the countryside, maybe a bit of history: Joan of Arc, the Renaissance court of François I. But here we were in a dense forest, standing in a grassy circle from which radiated a half-dozen arrow-straight walkways. Perfect symmetry. Classicism amid the trees. What struck me was how magical it all was—the crazy sense of rationalism run amok. Only later did I realize that in this clearing I'd stumbled across the essence of France.

January 1998

Ever since the 1920's, when nostalgia for the days of dolce far niente took root in earnest, Santa Barbara has been the primary locus of the California myth, the vision of California as a golden land, bountiful and enchanted. The Chumash, the Native American people who settled in this area before the Spanish, had their own word for such a myth: anacapa, mirage. To succumb to Santa Barbara is to recall an idyll that never was—but not to succumb is unthinkable.

April 1997

Newport is a city of charity balls and midnight carousing, of the quietly rich and the noisily young. The Old Money feels embattled, as Old Money generally does. Things haven't been the same since the Depression, or since the Newport Bridge made the town accessible to day-trippers in 1969, or since the America's Cup was lost to the Aussies in 1983. Henry James saw the Newport of his youth as a delicate thing, "like a little bare, white open hand, with slightly parted fingers." On his return four decades later he was horrified to find it, as Louis Auchincloss wrote, "crudely crammed with gold." Were the master to hit upper Thames Street on a summer weekend today, I'm afraid he'd find it smeared with fudge.

February 1997

If you want tour buses and T-shirted tourists snapping photos in Historyland, you won't be hard put to find them. But that is not Virginia. Virginia is an ancient place where nothing is far from the soil. It is the impossibly broad rivers of the Tidewater, rising and falling with the moon. It is the red clay of the Piedmont, where Jefferson trod the Newtonian frontier. It is a formal garden at twilight, boxwood perfuming the air with the scent of decay. Breathe deep, and you too can taste the faded glories of cavalierdom.