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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT (HBO, Oct. 15, 18, 21, 24). Friends and family of five AIDS victims, whose lives are commemorated in the AIDS Memorial Quilt, reminisce poignantly in a documentary directed by Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk) and Jeffrey Friedman...
...CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on earth...
TALES FROM THE CRYPT (HBO, June 10, 9:30 p.m.). Those scary old E.C. comics inspired three horror tales, each directed by a Hollywood heavyweight: Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), Walter Hill (48 Hrs.) and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon...
...rival cable company. According to a study by Michael Salinger, a professor of public policy at the Columbia University business school, system operators may indeed show bias toward their own networks over channels owned by other companies. Says he: "I found that ATC systems tend to favor HBO and Cinemax," an affiliated pay service. "Similarly, Viacom ((which also owns cable systems)) tends to favor Showtime...
...opposite directions. Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research group and trade-magazine publisher, found that the average monthly charge for basic service climbed from $11.90 in 1986 to $14.40 last year, an increase of 21%. At the same time, the typical fee for premium offerings such as HBO and Showtime fell from $10.31 a month to $9.91, down nearly...