Press Conference

North Carolina State athletic director Debbie Yow, who feuded with men's basketball coach Gary Williams while holding the same position at Maryland, has accused Williams of sabotaging the Wolfpack's recent search for a new men's basketball coach. "I don’t have a reputation across all men’s basketball as being difficult to work with," Yow said during today's press conference introducing coach Mark Gottfried. "I have a reputation of not getting along with Gary Williams, who has tried to sabotage the search.

This week's episode of "Revenge" officially put the show in the 'not for casual viewing' category. The number of story lines and twists going on is getting hard to keep up with, and new characters are being introduced faster than Emily Thorne can plot against them. The episode opens with some of the back story between Emily and Aiden (no longer the mystery man). We learn that he was training with Takeda in hopes of finding his sister, and that he and Emily had a love affair before he disappeared to find his sister.

Wasn't it great that Bill Clinton went on live TV yesterday?L What's that? You weren't aware he has ever been off live TV?Well, I don't blame you. Since his election, rarely a day has gone by when Bill Clinton has not dominated the news. This is no accident.In the modern world there is no difference between running for office and serving in office: each is part of what has become an endless campaign.The shaping of the image, the selling of the program, the spinning of the message never stops.

The Hollywood press corps has been calling Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen the Dream Team since the three announced their partnership in October to form a new entertainment company.Two-thirds of the team, Katzenberg and Spielberg, met with critics in Los Angeles yesterday supposedly to explain what their company would mean to the TV industry. But instead of details, all they had was recycled talk of the "dreams" that led to their partnership.How much of a non-news-event was the standing-room-only press conference?

TOKYO -- Japanese classical music fans have had to settle for videos of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at ticket counters for the past six months. Yesterday, though, the real thing finally arrived.At a press conference attended by several dozen Japanese reporters at one of Tokyo's most expensive hotels, promoter Masahide Kajimoto said the orchestra had come close to selling out all 14 engagements in Japan.The success is unusual these days, given the impact of an unprecedented recession on the music business, ticket prices of approximately $150 a piece, and no prior presence.

Los Angeles -- One of the stranger things on the fall preview tour is how the press conferences, interviews and screenings are scheduled one after another all day with no delineation. You leave a press conference for the Cartoon Channel where Elmer Fudd is pointing a gun at Bugs Bunny, and walk into another room to hear Kurt Vonnegut talking about Salinger or Hemingway.It can be disorienting. It is, though, a hyper, three-dimensional version of the very way TV comes at us in our homes -- disjointed images and pieces of information seizing our attention, one flowing into the other with no separation, except an announcer or anchorman saying, "And now this."

Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bons Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure, by Alan Bisbort (Pomegranate, 154 pages, $17.95). Not all the declarations here were made on the deathbed. In fact, most were not. But they are artfully, delightfully chosen for their finality -- or, at least, decisiveness. And much of that is particularly engaging for its ultimate foolishness: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this my last press conference" -- Richard N's words in 1962 on losing the race for governor of California.

LOS ANGELES -- Brian Henson, the son of the late Jim Henson, said he will be bringing one of his father's ideas to television this spring with an ABC series, "Dinosaurs."The weekly series is set in 12 million B.C. and features dinosaurs created under Brian Henson's direction. Mr. Henson will serve as executive producer for the show."This is the first production we are going into without him," Brian Henson said, referring to his father at a press conference yesterday. The concept for the show "was an idea of his that was always a little wacky.

Given the millions of dollars that are being spent by both sides of Question 7 on advertising, I might feel a whole lot better about either side's intent if they had held a press conference stating that instead of spending their millions on advertising, they decided to donate directly to our schools and to essential non-profits like Living Classrooms and Catholic Charities instead of just making the owners of the local TV stations even richer in...

Last night, after the Orioles dropped their eighth consecutive game, manager Buck Showalter admitted that his players were pressing. "Of course they are," he said. He then turned the attention to the reporter who asked the question and made an analogy about him pressing to produce stories with new-fangled technology. “You’re pressing to come up with a great … whatever you call it," Showalter said at the post-game press conference . "I mean, that’s what you’re assigned to do. You know, whatever.