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Soon after, Hall says Disney offered her a job touring with a company in South America...
...latest animated project from Disney combines the most recent technological advancements in character animation with real, albeit digitally enhanced, live-action backgrounds filmed in such bizarre sites as the Mojave Desert. The plot is typical and uncreative, yet sounds somewhat fantastic: a dinosaur gets separated from its family as an egg and is raised a by a group of lemur monkeys. The asteroid that supposedly wipes out the dinosaurs hits earth, and the dinosaur, who has been reunited with his kind, acts like a sort of Dino-Moses who saves the day with canny primate-know-how. Although there...
When Time Warner capitulated last Tuesday, offering an olive branch that brought an extension of the current Disney contract through July 15, a grateful viewership could finally reconnect with Regis. But there had taken place a not so subtle shifting in the ground beneath the cable business and in attitudes toward the Time Warner-AOL merger...
Meanwhile, Time Warner and Disney will soon be back at the table. In New York City, TW has offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed...
...more honest posture from Disney would have them saying, simply, "Gotcha!" Or, at worst, "We won." But even if they did, the award for most honorable statement would still go to Fred Dressler, the Time Warner Cable programming chief, who played a pivotal role in the botched negotiations. Asked what he thought his company had gained from the entire adventure, Dressler said, "One of the things we've learned is that whatever we do that affects the viewing habits of the American public is of greater importance than anyone had imagined...