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...cute, they whistle while they work, and Snow White can always depend on them in a pinch. The Seven Dwarfs are among Walt Disney's most lovable characters. So why are they making some residents of a California neighborhood grumpy? When Disney unveiled a new corporate headquarters in Burbank last week, onlookers were startled to see that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some residents think...
True, the current models may be a little ugly, and they're not cheap -- about $1,800 -- but the long-term savings over oil or electric heat can be dramatic. And what you don't burn, you can pop (just kidding). Dan and Barbara Burbank, who are using one to heat their eleven-room New Hampshire home, say it costs about $5 a day, and they're thrilled. Last winter they burned seven cords of wood, at $130 a cord, and over a thousand gallons of oil. So far this year, just $400 worth of corn. (For more information: Dove...
...videocassettes. Warner Bros., which is controlled by Time Warner, also received exclusive cable-TV distribution rights for all Columbia feature films, television movies and mini-series. Included were the 2,700 movies in Columbia's film library. In addition, Warner Bros. will become sole owner of the valuable Burbank Studios -- which the two companies now jointly hold -- by acquiring Columbia's 35% interest in the film lot in exchange for sole title to Warner's smaller Lorimar Studio. And Warner will keep some 50 film projects that Guber and Peters have under development, including Batman and Rain Man sequels...
More than most industries, the movie business is dependent on the creative talents of a few top people. That is the basis for a feud that has broken out on the sprawling Burbank, Calif., studio lot that Columbia Pictures shares with Warner Bros. Friction between the neighbors began last month when Japan's Sony agreed to buy Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man, Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner...
...Italy in about 1890. Like many of the horns in Woody's collection, it was supplied by fellow clarinetist Davern, who picked it up in a New York City pawn shop. Davern once offered to lend Woody a horn that had belonged to the great New Orleans clarinetist Albert Burbank, another of Woody's idols. Woody hesitated. "What if somebody steals it?" he said. "So what?" replied Davern. "They'll probably steal it while I'm playing it," said Woody...