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...would restrict trade, he doesn't say how he would end layoffs by companies that aren't exporting many jobs. He shakes his head over the 40,000 cut last month by AT&T. "You could tell how painful this chop was to [AT&T chief Robert] Allen; he makes $5 million a year and his stock option went up, like, $5 million that day." O.K., says Kevin Phillips, the Republican strategist who predicted the shift of blue-collar ethnics to the Republicans in the '60s. So what would Buchanan do? "I'm not aware that he has proposed anything...
...from the bottom up with local programming--a national network of distinct and separate voices. It almost sounds like a koan: When is a network not a network? Of course, this is precisely the kind of counterintuitive thinking that has drawn Diller admirers and partners like investment banker Herbert Allen and Tele-Communications Inc.'s John Malone. In practical terms, however, Diller's plan would seem almost too counterintuitive, given the fact that Silver King stations currently produce almost none of their own programming. Thus Diller will presumably be forced to build up separate stables of talented programmers all around...
...mention Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. But if you love show-biz fables in which the desperate improvisations of sweet-souled egomaniacs are rewarded by improbable last-minute success, writer-director Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale is a very acceptable update. Especially if you like Woody Allen too. For Branagh has adopted a number of Allen's mannerisms: shooting in black and white, using old songs for the score--in this case, frugally, just one song, Noel Coward's great anti-show biz anthem, Why Must the Show...
...They have a real strong three-point shooter, Kim Allen, so we'll try to shut her down," Gettelman said...
...addition to being one of the greatest actors of our time, Denzel Washington is an excellent symbol of dignity and decency for people of all races," Foundation Director S. Allen Counter said in the press release. "We are thrilled and honored to have him here at Harvard as our Cultural Artist of the Year...