Word: cinemax
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...magazine (at a cost of 700 per issue) will be marketed jointly by Time Inc. and cable-system owners, with both sharing in the revenues. Because of that arrangement, and because Time Inc. is itself a major supplier of cable programs through its Home Box Office and Cinemax movie channels, some competitors raised questions of potential conflict of interest. Peter Funt, editor and publisher of On Cable, characterized the plan as "sort of like inviting the fox in to give a lesson to the chickens." Said Merrill Panitt, editorial director of TV Guide: "Our feeling is that if we became...
...leaving a narrow black border at top and bottom and losing only the extreme sides of the frame. This technique reasonably preserves the director's original compositions. European television has been using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery. "It's dreadful," says a Cinemax executive. In 1981, according to the executive, when HBO acceded to Woody Allen's request that it show his Manhattan masked, viewer response was negative: "You just can't laugh at Woody Allen when he's only 1½ inches tall...