Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year's thin but charming excavation, the two-CD Live at the BBC, sold 8 million copies worldwide, so there may yet be fresh gold in the Beatles. abc thinks so; it paid $20 million for the documentary. E.M.I. paid several millions more for the three "new" double albums, and last week Sony paid $95 million to Michael Jackson to share in his ownership of part of the Beatles song catalog...
With all of England but the royal family tuned in, Princess Diana appeared on the BBC show "Panorama" tonight to say that her marital woes drove her to bulimia. Though her hour-long interview with reporter Martin Bashir offered no bombshells about the monarchy, Diana did continue the relatively new tradition of royal confessional. "I desperately wanted [the marriage] to work," she said of her 14-year marriage to Prince Charles. "I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything with him, and I thought we were a very good team." Diana also said that the news...
Wasserstein said she is currently working on a possible film script and an adaptation of The Sisters Rosensweig for the BBC. But she assured the audience she is not planning to write a sequel to The Heidi Chronicles...
Rotblat went back to England, and it was over the BBC that he heard the news of the bombing of Hiroshima. "I felt angry, worried and fearful about the future of our civilization," he recalled at a news conference last week. Rotblat refocused his scientific attention on possible medical uses of nuclear reactions and radiation; he also began his lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament. The Pugwash organization was considered especially influential during the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan began pushing his Star Wars program; it gave scientists an unofficial channel through which to discuss the tricky arms-reduction issues raised...
Colin Powell finally gave his views on the Simpson verdict in London, where he is promoting his book, in an interview with the BBC. The verdict, he said, "is not a metaphor for all race relations in the U.S. There is an enormous chasm. And sometimes we forget, when we see some progress and some blacks doing well . . . what we have left behind in our inner cities." Powell admit that racial tensions could present problems for him if he runs for president. "There are some people who see me as an American who happens to be black. But there...