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...marriage of high and low popular art. This time the betrothed were two companies recognized as the best in their very different lines of moviemaking: Merchant Ivory Productions, the independent team responsible for such stately dramas as A Room with a View and Howards End, and the Walt Disney Studios, ace hucksters of no-brow cinema. Disney agreed to co- finance and distribute Merchant Ivory's films for the next three years...
...controversial decision is a major victory for phone operators, which will now be able to transmit TV shows, movies, sports and news formerly carried only by cable and broadcast networks. They will also be allowed to acquire a financial stake of up to 5% in programmers like cnn, Walt Disney and even cbs. The ruling is expected to pave the way for new consumer services, including interactive television and home shopping, and to lower cable rates by promoting more competition. In return for the new freedoms, phone carriers must open their networks to all comers...
...Florida, the Sunshine State, home of citrus fruit, Walt Disney World and fabulous beaches and palm trees, casts 65 votes for the next president of the United States of America, Our Next President...
SPARKY, A PIT BULLTERRIER WITH A sweet disposition, gets run over by a car, and Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver), his 10-year-old master, determines to revive him using a microwave and a toaster. FRANKENWEENIE sounds like pure Tim Burton, and it is. The 27-min. Disney comedy, made in 1984 and now released as a home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here...
...Nights earned a respectable $60 million at the North American box office; Another 48 HRS., $80 million. Two: he hasn't lost his potential. "There are only a few others -- Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin -- in Eddie's league as a brilliant comic talent," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Disney sachem who worked with the young Eddie at Paramount and is shepherding Murphy's next film, Distinguished Gentlemen, at Disney. "Just as important, he's realigned his management team and has a great relationship with Brandon Tartikoff at Paramount. He's an ambitious, nailed-down, determined actor...