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Michael Jackson Meets Batman (Warner Bros.; Anton Furst) This proposal from the production designer of Batman has a quirky logic to it, teaming music's baddest icon with pop culture's most marketable superhero. If the movie bombs, maybe the sound track could offset the losses...
Fresh Prince Goes into the Army (Warner Bros.) The studio has yet to release New Jack City, a troubled rap-crack epic. With Fresh Prince (Will Smith) getting lackluster ratings on NBC, why gamble millions more on another rap film...
LISTEN UP: THE LIVES OF QUINCY JONES. Who is this guy with the omnipresent name? There are now three chances to find out: an audacious documentary directed by Ellen Weissbrod, currently in theatrical release (Warner Bros.); a book, which expands with razzle-dazzle graphics the biographical contents of the film; and a CD (Qwest/Reprise), packaged with the book, which represents the first-ever compilation of Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney...
...that Exxon used in cleanup operations, buyers bid on acres of items ranging from animal shampoo to mobile homes to microwave ovens. Four 18-ft. boats sold for $3,750. Other items were less than a steal: four used TV sets sold for a total of $2,000. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers International, a Vancouver, B.C., firm that bought the surplus gear from Exxon, collected $3.8 million on the first day of the four-day auction. The oil company, which will send experts back to Prince William Sound next spring to continue the job, says it has plenty of equipment left...
...public servant, and some of my missions are journalistic." But news executives are more dubious. When Jackson tried to line up a TV backer for his recent Middle East trip, he was turned down by all three major networks and several other news organizations (including Warner Bros. TV), before the magazine show Inside Edition ponied up $125,000. The interview was something of a bust, partly because CBS's Dan Rather got to Saddam first and partly, according to Inside Edition producers, because the sharpest exchanges were deleted by Iraqi officials...