Word: hbo
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Oliver Stone co-produced what TIME reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls a "gripping--albeit didactic--new HBO movie" about the mass paranoia surrounding day care centers and allegations of sexual abuse in them during the 1980's. Among the victims of the hysteria were the McMartin family, who were accused of horrific crimes in their Southern California day care center. Their trial, then the longest and costliest in American history, ended in 1990 with no convictions. But screenwriters Abby and Myra Mann's nine-year obsession with the case leaves the film feverishly trying to convince any doubters of the McMartin...
...then there is an anomaly named Mike Tyson. A TV movie about the wayward boxer's life, which airs this month on hbo, deftly portrays the former world heavyweight champion as a ruined young man devoid of the sportsman's archetypal inner drive. Witness an Iron Mike without an iron will...
...HBO's new movie about the former heavyweight champ portraysMike Tysonas an emotionally vacant young man devoid of any inner drive to win. With George C. Scott as trainer Cus D'Amato, Paul Winfield as Don King and newcomer Michael Jai White as Tyson, the movie shows "Iron Mike without an iron will" says TIME reviewer Gina Bellafante. However, it fails to offer any insight into the boxer's psychology. "Fallen heroes always retain a certain mystery, but they needn't be this inscrutable."Previous TIME Daily
...DreamWorkers have journeyed to the end of the rainbow, to Seattle and Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Europe, and have found several pots of gold. They are securing a $1 billion line of credit from Chemical Bank. More stash will come through advances in such fields as pay TV (HBO), music distribution (MCA could win there), worldwide pay- and free-TV rights. The team is negotiating with the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) to invest almost $300 million; that deal, which both sides had hoped to present to the CalPERS board last week, is delayed but not dormant...
...real world, every silver lining has a cloud, and DreamWorks faces a few. The world entertainment market could go limp, from a recession or from software exhaustion. Or the company could make flop movies and records. The HBO deal, which was touted as a billion-dollar windfall for DreamWorks, is tied to box-office performance; if the films are dogs, HBO will pay considerably less. And what if all goes poorly? The team's investors could demand that their money be returned before S, K and G get paid for their two-thirds equity stake...