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...buzz word for the 1990s, especially in the entertainment business these days, is global. Paramount Communications last week announced that it had taken a major step in that direction by purchasing a 49% stake in the British firm Zenith, Europe's leading independent television programmer. A subsidiary of Carlton Communications, Zenith last year produced such dramas as The Paradise Club and Inspector Morse in Britain, as well as the romantic comedy Finnegan Begin Again...
Paramount declined to say how much it had paid for the acquisition, but Carlton's 1988 annual report put revenues for the production company at $95 million. "The Zenith acquisition represents our most significant entry into the international market," said Mel Harris, president of Paramount's Television Group. "By aligning ourselves with the United Kingdom's major independent producer, we are positioning ourselves for the 1990s and 1992, when Europe's trade barriers fall...
...elsewhere. J. Aron Allen, who now lives in Minnesota, would not be a correct response to the question as he was born in the South. I think The Crimson should set the record straight and do a more thorough job of checking its facts in the future. Trevor W Carlton...
Archrival R.J. Reynolds has been mailing out videocassettes containing commercials for its Now brand of cigarettes. The company says all the tapes ; were sent to smokers who favor Carlton, a competing brand, in an effort to win them over. But Matthew Myers, staff director of the Coalition on Smoking or Health, contends that RJR's "video loophole" could be used to circumvent Congress's original goal of shielding youngsters from tobacco ads. While the RJR tape is aimed at adults, Myers fears that such ads could creep into videocassettes of teen movies...
Sure, there were a lot of good moments. It's funny, but whenever I think about the days when baseball was THE SPORT, so many details pop up. Like the smell of Glovolium, this magical oily-like substance that I used to rub on my Carlton Fisk catcher's mitt and then on my Jim LeFevebre (whoever he was) infielder's glove every day in February. I really don't know what the Glovolium did to my gloves; I just thought every major leaguer...