Word: asner
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...CANT IMAGINE anyone trying to deny folks in their home the right to tape off a common carrier," said Ed Asner, head of the Screen Actors Guild But Walt Disney Studios and Universal City Studios could imagine all that and more. When Sony corporation first introduced video cassette recorders (VCR's), the same people who brought you Peter Pan and Donald Duck and his alleged "nephews" hauled Sony, four Betamax retailers, an advertising agency, and an individual Betamax owner into court for copyright infringement...
...decision," said Asner, "throws it into the lap of Congress to create a small tax on blank tapes and machines." From this tax, which Vallenti now suggests be $25 a machine and 25 cents a tape--enough to produce some $57 million in 1982--would come the compensation to the studios for the losses they have incurred. Already, Senator Charles Mathias (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents and Copyrights, has introduced such legislation in Congress. On the Hill, the producers face a tough fight as their lobbyists compete with the claims of the millions of voting...
...most undergraduate Houses students live among talented and diverse neighbors, and occasionally a genuine celebrity walks through the courtyard or eats in the dining hall. Recently Edward Asner, Leonard Bernstein '39, and Barbara Tuchman '58 have spent time living among undergraduates, occupying one of several lavish guest suites spread throughout the Houses...
Winthrop House set aside the suite once occupied by the undergraduate John F. Kennedy '40 for visitors. The notoriety of this well-appointed "Kennedy suite" (recently occupied by Asner and Presidential candidate John Anderson) is matched by the fine furnishings in other Houses--in Lowell, for example, the Hasty Pudding Club's Man and Woman of the Year traditionally stay in that dorm's guest suite...
...rock music). Groups: Maimed; Sick and Vile; The Herpes. 10:00 Barkie (new comedy series). What happens when a divorced homeless couple adopts a Chicano orphan who can change himself into a flying puppy? Edward Asner and Linda Blair. Delightful, raging. 10:30 Luciano Pavarotti Sings Every Aria Ever Written (9 days...