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Award-winning comedian Paula Poundstone will return to her native state and perform in Sanders Theatre October 23 for an HBO Comedy Hour special...
...past correspondent for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and E! Entertainment Television, Pound-stone has won several awards for her HBO appearances and will be featured at Fox's "1995 Clio Awards" later this fall...
...Turner stock, which Time Warner would acquire from other shareholders at the rate of three-quarters of a share of Time Warner for each share of Turner. It was expected that Malone would also receive "favorable terms" when purchasing programming such as CNN or Time Warner's HBO to run on his cable systems. But Time Warner refused to eliminate its poison-pill defense against takeovers, which kicks in when a shareholder acquires 15% or more of the company's stock, and reportedly declined to put Malone on its board. Without the poison pill, a large shareholder such as Malone...
...achieve cost savings--let alone synergy, the talismanic media-company goal that sounds so good and is often difficult to attain. On the other hand, Time Warner could distribute Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote throughout the world via Turner's fast-growing Cartoon Network, and combine HBO with Turner channels into an attractively priced package for operators of cable systems from Moscow to Calcutta...
...military history--an important saga missing from most textbooks. Now after decades of struggle, the story of the Tuskegee airmen, and the vicious racism they overcame to become war heroes, will finally reach a wide audience. Starting on Aug. 26, with additional play dates over the following few weeks, HBO will broadcast a TV drama based on the adventures of the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron, which first went into combat in April 1943 and eventually shot down 16 enemy planes, destroyed four more and damaged six others in just nine months. Laurence Fishburne (What's Love...