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...potential obstacle to the largest media merger ever, the planned combination of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, was cleared away last week when Warner settled a four-year dispute with its largest shareholder, Chris-Craft Industries. Since the company holds some 15% of Warner shares, Chris-Craft could have complicated the nearly $20 billion Time-Warner merger. Chris-Craft might have done so by delaying the completion of the merger, as it did last year in Warner's acquisition of Lorimar Telepictures. Both Chris-Craft and Warner made concessions in reaching an agreement to no longer disagree. As part...
INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing Center, New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest royal architect England ever produced. This impeccable show reveals the technical and pictorial skill with which he led English architecture into a new, classically based grandeur and amplitude. Through July...
...CONTEMPORARY SOVIET AND AMERICAN PAINTERS, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. A double first: an unprecedented joint showcase of younger artists (including Americans David Salle, Donald Sultan and Ross Bleckner) and the first exhibit ever organized to tour museums in both countries. Through...
DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped...
This summer, the experts say, everything old is gold again. "1989 has the makings to break all records," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates, a media-research firm. "We're seeing sequels to some of the most successful movies ever. And since no two of the big ones are being released head to head, each of them could hit a home run." Notes producer Laurence Mark: "Sequels aren't necessarily about a failure of the Hollywood imagination. They're about lowering risks." So why, in a business full of expensive risks, shouldn't Hollywood be allowed just one near...