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Good Morning America will host its Thursday morning show on a platform in Tercentenary Theater, in what may be the first-ever live television broadcast from Harvard Yard...
...this streetwise entertainment mogul has amassed tons of it. You want to talk records? He owns six labels, including the pioneering Def Jam. Live concerts? His management company boasts a roster of such seminal rap performers as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and 3rd Bass. Television? His broadcast and film-production company turns out the popular Home Box Office show Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, a weekly showcase for black stand-up comics. Nobody has done more than Simmons, 34, to move rap -- or hip- hop, as aficionados call it -- from the streets of the inner city into...
...cable-television business after running up $235 million in losses over seven years. Shutdown costs -- including severance packages for the 400 employees of Monitor Television who were laid off -- will run another $45 million. While church officials search for a buyer for the cable operation, the Monitor Channel will broadcast reruns. The channel managed to attract about 4 million subscribers before its demise, a bantamweight entry in the cable ring compared with the likes of the Discovery Channel, which has upwards of 57 million homes...
During the past few weeks alone, two Harvard organizations have "partied on" at Cambridge Community Television and Neighbor Development (HAND) will film its tutoring and after-school activities for a program to be shown on CCTV and CityStep is producing a documentary on their recent show to be broadcast next fall...
Irresistible to Nickelodeon, anyway. After all three broadcast networks and Fox gave aggressive thumbs-down, Vanessa Coffey, the cable network's V.P. of animation, saw something "uniquely bizarre" in Ren and Stimpy and helped develop scripts and concepts. "At all costs, we wanted to change the face of animation," she recalls. Actually, the price tag was about $300,000 a show. Kricfalusi voiced Ren as a deranged Peter Lorre; ex-standup comedian Billy West enacted Stimpy in a tone vaguely reminiscent of Larry, a founding Stooge...