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...financial profit, the marketability of a brand name showing on a ski propped over an Olympic champion's heart is obvious. And an ice show hardly knows what to call a star if she has won nothing more than a silver medal. Fratianne, who performs for Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom on Ice, says, "It's kind of the difference between being rich and really rich. Maybe it cost me some money, but all I can say is, now I can live happily ever after...
...legal because last week the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that home videotaping of television programs for private use is not a violation of copyright law. The anxiously awaited decision grew out of a suit brought by the Disney and Universal studios in 1976 against the Sony Corp., makers of Betamax videocassette recorders (VCRS), for enabling home viewers to record movies and TV shows without paying a royalty. In 1981 a federal appeals court in California decided in favor of the studios. Since then the billion-dollar VCR industry, as well as millions of consumers, has been...
...John Paul Stevens for the majority: "One may search the Copyright Act in vain for any sign that the elected representatives of the millions of people who watch television every day have made it unlawful to copy a program for later viewing at home." The court found, moreover, that Disney and Universal-and, by extension, the entertainment industry-had failed to prove that the practice caused them financial injury or damaged the value of their copyrighted work. Thirteen years after the introduction of the VCR, a switch in time is no longer a crime...
...Down East Disney keeps his word processor clicking at a phenomenal rate. He has just finished collaborating with fellow Horror Novelist Peter Straub (Ghost Story) on a fantasy novel called The Talisman. After that comes a new collection of short stories, and a lengthy monster opus called IT is in the works. Says Straub: "Steve is a workaholic who wouldn't be happy if he wasn't writing...
Right Stuff, Actor-Playwright Sam Shepard, 41, said little and stole much of the show, and he is now mightily sought after by Hollywood. But for no strange reason, the film he has currently chosen to do, Country, is a Walt Disney movie that also stars (and is co-produced by) Actress Jessica Lange, his offscreen live-in companion. In what has been described as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, Shepard and Lange, who teamed up in Frances last year, this time play a struggling Midwestern couple who are losing their farm. They have just finished shooting...