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Thursday: Christmas extravaganza with The Demoulas, Bad Art Ensemble and Rainbowz...
Wednesday: folk rock extravaganza with John & Mary (formerly of 10,000 Manicas), Rick Berlin and the Vindicators...
Della Reese--performs in a gala jazz extravaganza to benefit Dimock Community Health Center, Roxbury. Tickets are $100, $75 for WGBH members. For information call Steppin' Out at 442-5077. In the World Trade Center in Boston Saturday...
Gone With the Wind, book and movie, may be as close to a perpetual-motion machine as the entertainment business is likely to get. Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best seller and David O. Selznick's Technicolor extravaganza have sustained each other for more than 50 years. Readers beget viewers, and countless moviegoers have been seduced at the bookstore. All this adds up to 28 million copies sold and still counting. The 3 3/4-hour movie, owned by Ted Turner since he bought the MGM film library in 1985, has become the eternal flame of popular culture. It is a safe...
Then there are the financial realities of modern journalism. Monstrous as the Moscow extravaganza was -- the TV networks couldn't resist sending their anchors, and CBS dispatched seven camera crews -- many news executives have concluded that they can no longer afford saturation coverage of all presidential trips. (The overall cost of just the press centers in Moscow and Kiev was $250,000.) The Associated Press sent 11 staff members on the trip, a third less than the number that covered the Reagan-Gorbachev summit...