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...behind rapprochement, will not get much from it beyond what Clinton's lifting of the trade embargo achieved last year. The real fruits would come from giving Vietnam most-favored-nation trading status. Still, the Vietnamese seem eager to plow ahead. Said Deac Jones of Connell Bros. Co., a distributor of U.S. consumer goods in Vietnam: "The majority of people here are very pro-American. If you have the exact same brand product, a shampoo made in the U.S. and the Philippines, they will pay more...
...just as his name was to appear above the title of his first big Hollywood film, his career was over--that he might be the new answer to the question, "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?" Public reaction to his $60 misunderstanding could cost 20th Century Fox, distributor of Nine Months, $60 million in box-office receipts. And his mug shot might be remembered longer than all his other pictures. On Friday's Today show, Katie Couric wondered, "When do you think you'll finally stop being asked about this?" Grant's quick answer was "Never...
...show will go on at Ticketmaster now that the Justice Department has declined to bring an antitrust case against the nation's largest distributor of concert tickets. Justice launched an investigation last fall intocharges by the rock group Pearl Jam and others that the company's service charge was excessive and amounted to price gouging.Ticketmaster sold an estimated $1.6 billion in tickets last year, taking in $240 million in service charges...
Later in the week, Dole's wife Libby announced that she would be selling more than $15,000 in Walt Disney stock after learning that Disney, through its subsidiary Miramax, is the distributor of Priest. The controversial film, which her husband had already denounced several weeks ago, depicts a gay clergyman and a sexually active straight one. And coming soon from Miramax is Kids, a raw depiction of a sex-obsessed, drug-bleary day in the life of some New York City teens. It's the sort of thing Mickey Mouse would have to peek at through trembling white-gloved...
Still, whoever else may be doing it, Time Warner has undeniably made itself a major presence in the outer reaches of hard-edged rap. It may not be the largest distributor of rap music (the German-based Bertelsmann Music Group accounts for an 18.5% share of the rap market, compared with Time Warner's 16.4%), but it is home to several of the biggest and baddest performers, due largely to its ownership stake in Interscope, a small label that releases Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg. (Earlier this year, Time Warner increased its ownership in Interscope from...