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...sometimes seem to be auditioning less for Sense and Sensibility than for Clueless. Stars have dangled from bridges to protest logging practices, hawked clothes made in sweatshops while promoting moral values and slugged pesky photographers even as they were begging for kindness to animals. A recent surge of show-biz interest in children, however, seems to be as well aimed as it is high profile. More than half a dozen organizations founded or funded by Hollywood celebrities are zeroing in on kids' issues. And early childhood development is one of their top concerns...
...peddling their wares. While Fergie was pitching cranberry juice and Weight Watchers, her former brother-in-law was in New Orleans, along with game-show hosts and Playboy bunnies, at the annual gathering of TV execs. Prince Edward--or ED WINDSOR, as he prefers to be known in the biz--sold a series of documentaries by his Ardent Productions to CBS, including Edward on Edward, a show about his great uncle, Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry an American. The Windsors' revenge...
...next Next Big Thing. Ska is a candidate, with groups like No Doubt racking up sales. Trip-hop is another contender, with performers such as Tricky and Portishead. There are also electronic-dance-music forms like Jungle. "We see 1997 as a time of exploration in the music biz," says MTV's Schuon. Explains Lisa Cortes, former president of Loose Cannon Records: "People are hungry for different stories." While alternative rock tended to be mostly white, the newer genres tend to be multiethnic. The alternative to alternative could be bands that look less like a stereotype of suburbia and more...
Last week Disney held firm and said it would release Kundun as planned next year. "Disney's potential business in China is infinite," says Peter Dekom, a former show-biz attorney who advises media companies operating in Asia. "But Disney had to decide whether it wants to facilitate business or stand for free speech...
Fret not over ROBERT E. ("Teddy") TURNER IV, who was downsized by his dad Ted Turner, when Ted's biz merged with Time Warner. ("You're toast," dad said over dinner.) Teddy has two new jobs: one at his own company, which is developing an enhanced form of cable delivery; another with Forest Hills Cos., a nascent entertainment concern. He may one day even offer his pa some competition...