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...programs by year's end, she said, government regulation would be "imperative." Some media executives suggested that the Attorney General might be on shaky constitutional ground with her attack. But many nonetheless felt compelled to point the finger at their competitors. And in Hollywood the company behind The Program, Disney's Touchstone Pictures division, announced that it was shipping new prints of The Program without the offending scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lie Down in Darkness | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...effects fit the strict definition of virtual reality. Only a few make use of the computer helmet that guides your wraparound view and allows you to "move" objects in cyberspace. Most are only virtually virtual: variations on arcade games or tweakings of Disney's Star Tours ride, which craftily gyrate a pod in time with jolting screen images. But all the systems have a common goal: to give you a new-horizons, touchy-feely, out-of-mind experience. Virtual reality? Perhaps. Virtual theatricality? For sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look! Up on the screen! It's a galaxy! It's a killer robot! It's . . . VIRTUAL, MAN! | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

With attendance still below anticipated levels and 1993 losses predicted to exceed $300 million, Euro Disney announced it would shed 950 administrative and staff positions. The layoffs reduce the employee roster to 11,000, down from 19,000 during the theme park's first summer season last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week October 17-23 | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...population unwilling to accept responsibility. A few young children set fires; a few older children decide to lie down in the road for kicks. Their parents, instead of blaming either their own defective child-rearing, or their children's congenital dunderheadedness decide to blame Beavis and Butt-head and Disney...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Scaring Up A Simple Crisis | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

...chill has begun. The entertainment community isn't taking any chances as Disney cut the offending scene and MTV excised any references to fire. Perhaps NBC News should show some solidarity and cut out coverage of the California wildfires, lest any children get the wrong idea...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Scaring Up A Simple Crisis | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

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