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...courtship had all the frenzied twists of a Looney Tunes cartoon--or CNN's Gulf War coverage. For nearly a month, with the world looking on, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin used shuttle diplomacy to pursue an $8 billion merger with Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting. Spectators watched in bemusement as Time Warner acknowledged its courtship, then appeared to be stymied by cable-TV king John Malone, a Time Warner rival whose Turner stake gives him effective veto power over a deal. But by Sunday, as TIME went to press, Levin and Turner were tantalizingly close to sealing an agreement...
...stock valued at about $8.5 billion and, according to the deal's rough outline, make Turner a vice chairman of the combined company with authority over his previous holdings and may be more. Time War ner would get Turner's globe-straddling cable prop erties--CNN and the Cartoon Network, plus three other channels-along with two movie companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock, and sports properties that include the potent Atlanta Braves...
...hemorrhage that left a huge blank spot in her otherwise normal field of vision-or, rather, it would be blank if her brain allowed it. First, she saw a drawing of a cat, presumably supplied by her visual memory. "Then," says M.J. Blaschak, "I started to see flowers." Soon cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse began to appear. "I've got to the point where I think they're pretty funny," she says...
...accompanied by the Four Seasons, who have pretty, technically challenging variations. Here all this is replaced by pointless, dull sequences for the corps de ballet, who cross and recross the stage, smiling vacuously. Actually, Cinderella cannot very well dance with her broom because she is shackled by clogs of cartoon ugliness. Even if she is down on her luck, Cinderella is a ballerina and should wear pointe shoes. And dance...
...throwback to classic Hollywood pictures about men in groups--notably Howard Hawks' gruff flyboy panegyrics Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force--the new film is also a splendid display of old-fashioned realistic special effects, which convince viewers not that they are in a cartoon but that they are inside a real rocket with real people who really might die. The result is that rare Hollywood achievement, an adventure of the intelligent spirit. From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride...