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Trip Hawkins, founder and chairman of 3DO, was one of the first to see that Hollywood and the video-game industry were headed toward a happy collision. With his salesman patter and show-biz smile, he has for years been telling anyone who would listen that video arcades were more popular than movie houses -- and he would rattle off the numbers to prove it. As chairman of Electronic Arts, a leading maker of video games (and the first to treat its programmers like rock stars), he also railed against the electronics industry for failing to agree on a single video...
...late, occasionally great age of high-priced show-biz seriousness is over. Cohn will generate a zillion dollars in commissions this year, but he will earn it off pleasant trifles like Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle and Manhattan Murder Mystery -- in which the main characters are habitues of Elaine's, Woody's Upper East Side hangout that was the hottest restaurant on earth during exactly the period when Sam Cohn was the hottest agent. The glorious moment for a certain cliquishly upper-middle-brow Manhattan high life -- back when Saturday Night Live and Vanity Fair were brand new, back...
...found. The police were questioning other lads, supposedly including child star Macaulay Culkin. And when will results be issued? "It could be tomorrow, it could be two months from now," said L.A.P.D. spokesman Arthur Holmes. "We solve no crime before its time." This is Hollywood, folks; everyone speaks Show Biz...
...show biz is a part of every scandal. No sexual crime is so disturbing, no career blackmail so heinous, that it cannot be turned into career opportunities and comic mulch. Jackson had not been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed...
...Madison Avenue has a poor record of foreseeing seismic shifts in TV viewing patterns. As he moves closer to the mainstream, Letterman may find the mainstream has met him more than halfway. Letterman's hip, ironic, show-biz- hardened sensibility has, in the decade since he arrived, moved to the center of the culture in everything from sitcoms to Spy magazine. Billy Crystal used to poke fun at Tonight Show blather on Saturday Night Live ("You look mahvelous"); now he hosts the Academy Awards. Knockoffs of Letterman's Top 10 lists have turned up everywhere but on the backs...