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Paramount/DreamWorks' Deep Impact (due May 8) and Disney's Armageddon (July 1) both depict space missions that try to use nukes to knock incoming rocks off their fatal trajectories. Armageddon is about tough guys doing a tough job in space, while Deep Impact (inspired by the '50s films When Worlds Collide and On the Beach) emphasizes the human drama on Earth. This is Hollywood, remember: the real-life asteroid is a mile wide; in Armageddon it's the size of Texas. Says producer Jerry Bruckheimer: "We always do things bigger." And faster; you needn't wait till 2028 for these...
Boosted by its TV brand name and backed by parent Walt Disney Co., ESPN is guaranteeing advertisers an initial circulation of 350,000 and hopes to reach 2 million in five years, vs. SI's 3.15 million. Not that anyone is keeping score yet. The goal isn't to grab SI readers, says ESPN editor in chief John Papenek: "We're thinking about all those people who don't read a sports magazine." SI has added pictures and short news items up front, but managing editor Bill Colson says he "would have done it regardless of ESPN's appearance...
...parents like me to come home," said Ryan A. Riess '99. Riess, who is going home to Florida for spring break, will also be vacationing with his family at Disney World. "They take care of everything and you don't have to worry about finances," said Riess of his parents' vacation planning...
...unique musical form. The '20s saw the rise of the Hollywood studio system, which had grown from its humble origins among (mostly immigrant Jewish) nickelodeon proprietors into the most powerful industry for the invention and spread of dreams in human history, at least until the advent of TV. Walt Disney invented a little mouse, no larger than a man's thumb, that would become a behemoth...
Scott Weinger '98, best known around Harvardfor his roles as the voice of Disney's "Aladdin"and as D.J. Tanner's boyfriend on "Full House,"says his ties to Harvard have helped his career insome ways...