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...folks at CNN became part of the family. But every now and then we needed some relief, something sweet and harmless. Bambi was the year's best-selling video, and the crowds at Disney World fell off only slightly. The biggest star of the season was a 10-year-old kid you never heard of, whose movie, Home Alone, made studio heads cry -- especially the ones who turned down the script. Gary died on thirtysomething, but Nancy survived her cancer, and Bart Simpson passed all his courses...
...entertainment, but scores of producers and show-biz executives are donating their programs. Both the Super Bowl and last week's Grammy Awards were beamed in live. Taped segments of Los Angeles Laker games, boxing and wrestling matches, and favorites like The Arsenio Hall Show have also been shown. Disney even paid for a musical special, headlined by singer Greenwood, whose patriotic anthem God Bless the USA is one of the songs most requested by the troops...
...shirt with it." The county manager quickly clarified the policy against political paraphernalia. Said he: "I believe the display of yellow ribbons should not be viewed as a political statement but rather as a symbol that we remember the men and women serving in the Persian Gulf." Even at Disney World, whose efficiency and neutrality rival those of Switzerland, the strict dress code has been modified to allow those among its 32,000 employees who do not deal directly with the public to wear yellow ribbons...
...Disney was No. 1 in market share last year, but the studio's profits hit a three-year low. Katzenberg's prescription: smaller budgets and fewer films like Dick Tracy, last summer's comic-book extravaganza starring Beatty and Madonna that cost an estimated $100 million to make and market. While the movie has grossed nearly $200 million in theaters worldwide, Katzenberg complains that it has "static" characters who fail to evolve, and he suspects that it was not worth the expense or the 10 years of development effort. "Thanks to the dictates of the blockbuster mentality," he writes...
Paramount ranked second to Disney in box-office share but was the first to take the budget-pruning pledge after suffering several embarrassing stiffs. Godfather III, which cost at least $55 million, started strong but sagged after several weeks. All told, Paramount has had to lower the estimated asset values of five of the 15 films it released in 1990. Since the summer, Paramount has trimmed its staff, shaken up the studio's production staff and halved the number of films in development (to 125). For this year, Paramount still plans big-budget films with stars, but the company intends...