Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just one more reason not to live in Los Angeles. It seems there's an active volcano under Wilshire Boulevard, and is it steamed! It blows spitballs of lava up through manhole covers. It sends fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...
...convocation of moguls had gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that pink palace on Sunset Boulevard, to divvy up Saving Private Ryan, a World War II drama starring Tom Hanks, in the works for the summer of 1998. Paramount had the script; DreamWorks had the dream director, Steven Spielberg. That the two studios would agree to share the picture is not that unusual. But which one would get to distribute it in the U.S., and which would get the rest of the world? Both sides wanted the domestic release, which means getting the glory if the picture...
...behind media conglomerates, somebody at Viacom Inc. missed a meeting. When the company's MTV and VH-1 video channels recently sought an online-CD outlet, they passed over corporate cousin Blockbuster Entertainment, the video- and record-store Goliath, in favor of a more popular rival, N2K's Music Boulevard. MTV will also contribute news to the sites and promote them over the airwaves. With the $24 million-a-year online-music market expected to grow to $1 billion by 2000, MTV's abandonment is more bad news for the retail chain. Blockbuster has enough problems in the real world...
...what happens when the mother confessor slips up? In December, Walters did a happy, heartfelt profile on Andrew Lloyd Webber and noted that Disney, which owns ABC, was one of Lloyd Webber's investors. But she neglected to mention that she herself had put $100,000 into Sunset Boulevard. "I should have disclosed the investment," said Walters. "It won't happen again...
Most evenings after court, Baker and his team would adjourn to the law offices of Baker, Silberberg & Keener, housed in a huge, black-glass building next to the Santa Monica airport on Ocean Park Boulevard, just minutes from the courthouse. There, a four-module space called the "O.J. Archive" is filled with documents from the trial--and before. Johnnie Cochran, who had recommended his friend Baker to Simpson, sent over photocopies of all the defense documents in October 1995, immediately after it became clear that a civil suit was to be lodged. The Los Angeles district attorney's office, however...