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...instead of phone lines. In the past two weeks, America's two largest cable operators, TCI and Time Warner, launched the nation's first commercial cable-modem services in Fremont, California, and Akron, Ohio, respectively. Time Warner built its own service, dubbed Road Runner (after Warner Bros.' lightning-speed cartoon character); TCI joined forces with a Silicon Valley start-up called @Home. The basic pitch, however, is the same: Net access at speeds hundreds of times faster than today's conventional modems...
BRAD SHERMAN Democrat--California 24th Despite his controversial stand in favor of taxing cartoon reproductions, Sherman will continue his party's 52-year hold on this district...
...moral tales, The Book of Virtues, began its 88-week ride on the New York Times best-seller list, Bennett has plumbed and profited from America's anxiety over the decline in standards of moral behavior. The success of his first Virtues anthology spawned two profitable sequels and a cartoon show, which debuted last week on PBS. Meanwhile, he has co-written a new book called Body Count, to be published this month, which blames the rise of young criminal predators on a "moral poverty" born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too-easy divorce. And Bennett's ubiquity...
...imagined the response The Book of Virtues would elicit, with 2.3 million copies sold to date. Bennett followed with an illustrated Children's Book of Virtues; a separate anthology aimed at adults, The Moral Compass; and the PBS cartoon series in which a buffalo named Plato (who bears a strong resemblance to Bennett) leads a pair of children through animated moral tales...
...that comes before video. But what about musicals? That word is obsolete. And movie musicals? As if! A Chorus Line, the last film based on a Broadway tune show, came out (and flopped) more than a decade ago. As for original movie musicals, they exist almost exclusively in the cartoon form perfected by Disney. Aladdin and The Lion King did blockbuster biz and sold quillions of CDS. Still, Hollywood refused to sing along...