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...million minimum that NBC agreed to spend was well above the $225 million that ABC paid to broadcast the 1984 Los Angeles Games but far less than the $600 million that the South Koreans had been seeking. The 1988 price reflects the eleven- to 14-hour time difference between the U.S. and Korea, which means that some of the most popular events will not be seen live by a large part of the world audience. NBC hopes to have better luck with the broadcasts than it did in 1980, when a U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games resulted...
Gorbachev's latest image-making effort began the day before his arrival in France. The General Secretary took part in an extraordinary hour-long interview with three French questioners, which was broadcast in both the Soviet Union and France. The session revealed little that was new. In a 20- minute opening statement, Gorbachev, who cut a sober, dark-suited figure while seated behind an ornate Louis XV-style writing table in the Grand Kremlin Palace, struck the broad themes of his upcoming trip. He lauded recent Soviet arms-control initiatives and declared that "we are ready for other radical decisions...
...Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became the celebrated radio voice of Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow knows!"); 23 when he touched off a national panic with his broadcast of a Martian invasion in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Invited to Hollywood to do pretty much as he pleased, he started out by creating one of the best films ever made, Citizen Kane, which he starred in, directed and partly wrote before he was 26. Ever since, for nearly half...
...Murdoch, Fox provides a rich library of films and shows, including the Star Wars trilogy, the M*A*S*H television series and movie classics starring Marilyn Monroe and Tyrone Power. Murdoch will probably broadcast the programs on his TV stations in Australia, Europe and the U.S. Davis made about $300 million on his investment in Fox, which he bought in 1981. That could now be just the start of something bigger. An avid Hollywood partygoer, Davis has no desire to say ciao to Tinseltown. Industry observers are predicting that he will soon announce another entertainment venture, possibly the purchase...
Honey the snake has been spotted by the superintendent of the house in which she lives, but Sara hasn't received any official word. She, too, does not broadcast the fact she has a snake...