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...idea behind the giveaway was that the new channels would be used to provide high-definition television (HDTV), which features razor-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound, as well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
Renaissance-man alert: VIGGO MORTENSEN, who does a mean impression of a D.H. Lawrence-quoting, gun-toting trainer and sometime Demi Moore tormentor in G.I. Jane, is actually a published poet. No sniggering, now. The actor, who speaks Spanish and Danish as well as English, has a new poetry CD called One Less Thing to Worry About. He mines his day job in his verse, which is of the spare, dark, ruminating kind, as in "Edit": "The man you were/ For one short season/ Has been pruned/ Removed/ To a well-groomed graveyard/ That smells like popcorn." Although the acting...
...Fences (1990), sold more than 13 million copies, but his latest, Fresh Horses (1995), sold just 4 million. The Central Park concert, which was free (the $11 million bill was footed by Brooks and HBO, which aired the show) was originally conceived as a mega-infomercial for his new CD, Sevens, which had a release conveniently...
...years to market his albums, Brooks decided to withhold his new record indefinitely. Jimmy Bowen, a former head of EMI-Capitol Nashville who worked with Brooks before leaving his post in 1995, predicts the singer will iron out his differences with the label in time to get the CD out by late fall. Says Bowen: "Nobody wins if [Brooks] keeps it in house, including...
...cherries killed her husband. The tragedy did not slow her down for long. She lived exuberantly, enjoying chocolates, cigarettes and one-liners ("I've never had but one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it"). In 1996, as if to establish her claim to posterity, she recorded a rap CD, Maitresse du Temps (Time's Mistress...