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...source materials were mainly one-shot plays or marginal TV fare. In 1955, Marty, a faithful rendering of Paddy Chayefsky's drama, was a critical success that won the Oscar for best picture, and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, a basting of three episodes of a Disney-TV western, was a surprise box-office hit. For a few more years, television's prized anthology series, like Broadway, continued to spawn serious films: The Bachelor Party, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Days of Wine and Roses. A dormant period was broken in the late 1970s when the TV transfers showed...
...N.F.L. opposes corporate ownership of teams, and until it changes the rule or the new league comes along, the best opportunities in share buying are in basketball, baseball and hockey. Paramount Communications (soon to merge with Viacom) owns the Knicks and the Rangers, Comsat owns the Denver Nuggets, and Disney has the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, California...
...Atlanta Hawks. For a $50 share of Anheuser-Busch, you get 39 cents worth of the Cardinals; and for a $60 share of the Tribune Co. in Chicago, you get $1.84 worth of the Cubs, not that you would want it, but some people are masochists. With Disney, your $42 gets you 9 cents worth of the Ducks...
Stephen Sondheim's Passion and Disney's Beauty and the Beast led this year's Tony Award nominations with 10 and nine, respectively, even though both opened to mixed reviews. In a season that made it sometimes difficult for the nominating committee to meet a minimum of four plays per category, revivals ! made just as much news, topped by She Loves Me, which also received nine nominations. The most honored drama was Tony Kushner's Perestroika, the second half of Angels in America, with six nominations...
Sixty years after Disney introduced the Mickey Mouse watch, Eisner & Co. has perfected Walt's theory: everything sells everything else. Disney movies bring customers into the stores, where they are exposed to a promotional blitz of products and wall videos that aim to recycle folks back to the parks and theaters. "This summer," says Eisner, "the stores will be geared to our new animated feature, The Lion King. You can also buy tickets for the park there. You can learn about the Disney Channel. It's all woven together." The Greeks had a word for it: $ynergy...