Word: hbo
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...Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner senior vice president, Timothy Boggs. The letter involved a contentious pricing provision favored by small cable companies and opposed by entertainment providers Time Warner and Viacom. It indicated that Time Warner's HBO unit had agreed to provide programs to a group of small cable-TV companies, including one in Pressler's home state of South Dakota, and that the agreement hinged on the removal of the pricing provision from the Senate bill. Said Pressler: "At no time during our conversation did I indicate...
...Cosmic Slop." About: spiritual and cultural differences. It's an HBO anthology. All right. I've never seen nor heard of this show. No one I know has ever seen or heard of this show. Where do these people find these things? For all I know, it could be as egregiously liberal as hell, or it could just be slop...
...African-American and a Republican, is reportedly trying to persuade Levin to make some accommodation that would defuse the issue. But company insiders say a more important move may have been the replacement in May of Warner Music chief Robert Morgado with Michael Fuchs, Levin's longtime colleague at HBO. Company sources say Fuchs' appointment was at least partly motivated by Levin's perception that Warner's fiercely independent music labels needed a stronger boss who could lead the way to developing tougher standards. The speculation from one well-informed source is that Levin and Fuchs may be preparing...
...Dole controversy has opened up other fault lines in the Time Warner empire. As head of HBO, Fuchs was frequently at odds with the top executives at Warner Bros. film division, Robert Daly and Terry Semel. Some speculate that Daly and Semel were not unhappy to see Fuchs -- the one company official assigned to respond publicly to Dole's attack -- aking all the corporate heat. When Robert Friedman, head of advertising and publicity for Warner Bros. films, was asked for a comment on Dole's speech, he interestingly passed the buck. "It's not a movie issue," he said...
...American history. The case ended in 1990 with no convictions on any of the 65 criminal counts. Now the family's seven-year legal ordeal is the subject of Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a gripping-though excessively pious-TV movie that will make its debut May 20 on hbo. Conceived and scripted by veteran screenwriter Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Atlanta Child Murders) and his wife Myra, the film feverishly aims to convince any doubters that the McMartins were the victims of a terrible injustice...