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...world, and two satellite-TV channels--BSkyB, which broadcasts across Europe, and STAR TV, which covers much of Asia. TV Guide magazine and the show Melrose Place, business data and the Super Bowl football game--all could come directly to your home screens via phone lines faster than cartoon kid Bart Simpson can make a prank call to Moe's Tavern...
Rule No. 1: Remake what worked before. So The Flintstones (live-action cartoon) begets Casper; The Crow (movie version of a comic book-sorry, graphic novel) sires Judge Dredd; the Ninja Turtles frenzy of recent yore gives way to Morphin endorphins. Four Hollywood pictures last year (the megahit True Lies, as well as the less successful Intersection, Mixed Nuts and My Father, the Hero) were based on French films; so is Nine Months, a comedy about an expectant couple (Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore). The high grosses of three Michael Crichton novels-into-films in two years (Jurassic Park, Rising...
...began sculpting poster-gum phalluses: A friend has a cartoon he scribbles everywhere, sort of a graffiti tag; it's a penis with an arm saluting. He calls it Corporal Penis. One day we were on the T, and I had some poster gum. I made a little statue of Corporal Penis and struck it on the T, and it was pretty amusing. So, I had some [poster gum] at home, and I started making penises to decorate all of my posters...
...Special Forces. "Before this, I'd never heard Tim talk bad about the military," says Littleton, now an Indianapolis steelworker. "I think he felt he got a raw deal, and he wanted out." A letter McVeigh wrote Littleton shortly after both left the Army spooked him. Illustrated with a cartoon showing a pistol painted with skulls and crossbones, it read: "So many victims, so little time...
...Pain between noon and 12:30 p.m. yesterday. Among them were a dozen children of union members, carrying signs reading "Another Union baby for day care" and "My mom needs child care." At the center of the circle was a man dressed as Barney, the popular purple cartoon character, and Donene Williams, the president of HUCTW. Barney clutched balloons while Williams held a megaphone...