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...reeking piece of filth" and a "public enemy" who will "use and abuse any young helpless prey he comes across." Most amazing of all, Steve the Tramp is also a child's toy. The 5-in. figurine, manufactured by California-based Playmates Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging...
CHRISTMAS SPECIALS. The networks, suffering economic woes, have cut back on holiday specials this year, but not on their time-warp wholesomeness. None is cuddlier than Dolly Parton: Christmas at Home (ABC, Dec. 21), in which the country singer twangs I'll Be Home for Christmas -- and is. Disney's Christmas on Ice (CBS, Dec. 21) brings Mickey and Minnie together with Katarina Witt and Tai Babilonia, while Richard Mulligan plays a small-town eccentric who meets an extraterrestrial (Beau Bridges) in Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (NBC, Dec. 23). On the classical side, James Galway and Frederica...
Just outside Tokyo 300,000 people troop through Japan's Disneyland each week, while 20 miles outside Paris a new city is rising on 8 sq. mi. of formerly vacant land. Once Euro Disney Resort opens for business in 1992, forget the Eiffel Tower, the Swiss Alps and the Sistine Chapel: it is expected to be the biggest tourist attraction in all of Europe. In Brazil as many as 70% of the songs played on the radio each night are in English. In Bombay's thriving theater district, Neil Simon's plays are among the most popular. Last spring...
...fourth of Hollywood's seven major studios to be acquired by foreign companies: 20th Century Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch's Australia-based News Corp., and MGM/UA was taken over earlier last month by Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti. That leaves only three major studios in American hands: Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros...
...Disney too is probably off limits. Says Paul Marsh, who follows media firms for the Los Angeles investment firm Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards: "The Mickey Mouse trademark is a bit like the Statue of Liberty. I don't think it's for sale." Paramount, valued at about $5 billion, seems more interested in buying than in being bought...