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...multibillion-dollar takeovers, the world's last two international media conglomerates today announced that they would merge. BMCAA Viafox (created out of Bertelsmann, MCA, CAA, Viacom and Fox) agreed to accept a bid of $638 billion in cash and stock from Disony GETCITWest (formed from a fusion of Disney, Sony, GE, TCI, Time Warner and Westinghouse). The new entity, which now controls all entertainment on film, TV, CD, video, telephone and computer, will be called, simply, Diller...
...Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet of media properties. If it flies, the deal would again make Time Warner the world's largest media outfit, vaulting over Disney, which has claimed the title for a month after agreeing to buy Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion...
...Arpaio has organized his prisoners into chain gangs, housed them in tents in the scorching desert and made baloney a staple of their diet. Skin magazines and all broadcast TV stations have been banned. ("Too much violence,'' he says.) For free-time diversions, they get CNN, old Disney films and reruns of Newt Gingrich's 10-part course on revitalizing American civilization. "I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back,'' says Arpaio. "I want them to suffer...
WILLIAM MORRIS & ICM Rival talent agencies hope to fill breach after uber-agent Mike Ovitz defects to Disney...
ROBERT IGER ABC boss/rumored heir apparent at Disney is knocked down a rung by Ovitz hiring...