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...Disney, Ovitz's expensively renovated offices stand empty. His Gulfstream III jet, which he sold to the company when he went to work there, is now happily occupied by ABC president Bob Iger. Apparently Ovitz has replaced it with a more modest Westwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOB HUNTING WITH MIKE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...popular appreciation of it is. The warning bell this time is being sounded not by scientists but by the entertainment industry. Two weeks ago, Universal Pictures released its heavily promoted volcano film, Dante's Peak, and in April, 20th Century Fox will release its more prosaically named Volcano. abc television will air a documentary on the world's most dangerous volcanoes next week, followed by a drama about an eruption at a West Coast ski resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VOLCANOES WITH AN ATTITUDE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Already such top-down TV powerhouses as MSNBC and ABC Online are testing it. C-SPAN is "Webcasting" gavel-to-gavel congressional coverage. Fox TV is using it for a two-week Net trial of its 24-hour news program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETLEY NEWS: THEY'VE GOTTA HAVE IT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

PETER JENNINGS It's not as easy as ABC, as the suave anchor signs up to get hitched for the fourth time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...first do no harm" (Feb. 16, 9 p.m. ET, ABC) has the requisites of a made-for-TV noble weepie: a disease, an innocent victim and an ordinary mom who becomes a wily fighter for her child's life. The film also has Meryl Streep, the most honored actress of her generation, in her first TV movie in 20 years. In the recent Marvin's Room, Streep played the selfish mother of a troubled child. But ...first do no harm" is better--less because of its heroine than because of its collective villain: the doctors to whom we entrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DOING WELL AT DOING GOOD | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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