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...proceedings online, which Gingrich has already facilitated, is one thing. Pornography and all sorts of seditious twaddle are online too, where sophisticated children can track them. What can or should be done about that? How do school prayers and family values mesh with the gloriously unfettered freedom of every crank in the world with a keyboard...
...Waleses were slugging it out in the headlines. Bitterly estranged for nearly two years, both Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales have used the press to court public sympathy and approval. In the meantime, Squidgygate and Camillagate have become part of trendy patois; front-page dramas have been cranked up over crank phone calls; and James Hewitt's confessional has redefined the word cad. Last week the battle reached what may be the climactic point. The Sunday Times printed excerpts from Jonathan Dimbleby's approved biography of the prince, to be published Nov. 3. The author, a distinguished broadcaster...
Neurasthenic royal is accused of making more crank calls...
...this backstage story there are no villains, unless it is the lumbering behemoth that Hollywood filmmaking has become. In the '30s a director like Michael Curtiz made six or seven pictures a year. Even today, TV can crank out a news-based movie (on Tonya Harding or the Waco siege) within a couple of months of the event. But in theatrical features, where everyone is conscious of art, ego and the roll of megamillion-dollar dice, the average film takes a couple of years from first draft to opening...
...over the loss of N.F.L. football. On Perelman's side, an alliance with Fox provided an opportunity to create a "vertically integrated" media company that would offer a wider distribution system for New World shows. "We now have the opportunity, with the Fox slots that we got, to really crank up our own programming, in size and number and quality of projects," says Perelman...