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...needs CNBC when there are Saturday-morning cartoons? Starting this week, Junior can prep for a life on Wall Street with Disney's Money Rock ($14.95), a new Schoolhouse Rock video that teaches the basics of playing the market and paying the taxman. Wacky characters sing toe-tapping financial tips, which will air Saturdays on ABC. Kids can learn their 401(k)s and IRAs on the Web at young investor. com and kidsbank.com...
Brown and Galotti will enjoy profit participation to start with, which will eventually turn into equity stakes. The partnership will produce journalistic specials of some sort for ABC (also owned by Disney) that will feature Brown doing interviews. Beyond that, details are sketchy, perhaps even to the principals themselves. But Weinstein makes the whole thing sound easy: "The idea is to marry the two cultures together and say, 'This is a brilliant story that takes place in England; we'll give that to Anthony Minghella [director of The English Patient]. This is something that's feminist and sexy; that sounds...
...examples, from Saturday Night Fever and Urban Cowboy to, more recently, Con Air and The Peacemaker. In fact, optioning magazine and newspaper articles has been a growing trend in Hollywood the past few years. Susan Lyne, a former executive editor of Premiere who pursued magazine-based movie projects for Disney and now works for ABC, cites economics: "You're no longer able to buy high-end books for under seven figures, while magazine options for the most part are still five-figure purchases. And a 10,000-word magazine article is often more than enough source material...
...another supergroup. This used to be the province of rock stars; now it belongs to disgruntled media executives. Whether the Brown-Galotti-Weinstein alliance will prove to be another DreamWorks, which seems to be working out O.K., or a misguided marriage, like Mike Ovitz being shoehorned into Disney, remains to be seen. Only the sizzle, the sell, is certain. As a reporter prepares to turn off his tape recorder, the interview over, Weinstein can't help but remind him, "You've got some humdinger stuff there...
...also made the magazine unblushing about sex. Don't tell the Disney people now colonizing 42nd Street (the ones for whom Brown will soon be working), but that's New York, the city of bright, cogitating mammals. In some respects the sex also made the magazine more genuinely literary. It introduced the same erotic preoccupations and four-letter words that serious books had discovered decades ago. It may have helped that they were placed within a New Yorker that never took its eyes off London. British topics and bylines were everywhere. One of the most clucked-over pieces...