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Disney's gains on cable leaders HBO (17.3 million subscribers) and Showtime (7.3 million) are due in part to its campaign to educate the public to its full menu of programming, and in part to an aggressive price-cutting strategy. Morning and afternoon shows are dedicated to preschoolers, preteens and teens. Family programming airs from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m., when adult fare takes over...
...barrier that once separated feature films and TV has been crumbling for several years. Directors like Walter Hill (48 Hours) and Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) have done episodes for HBO's Tales from the Crypt. John Sayles (Eight Men Out) created Shannon's Deal, a lawyer series for NBC, and Spielberg ventured into series TV several years ago with his fantasy anthology Amazing Stories. Yet many filmmakers of the first rank still regard TV as a second-class medium. The chief drawbacks: less time to work, less money to spend and more restrictions on style and subject matter...
Economic Keynesianism, at worst, leaves you with some nice government-built bridges. Symbolic Military Keynesianism leaves you with a vague sense of disappointment and massive hangover of drugs, crime, unemployment, a third-rate video duplicate of Whitney Huston "celebrating America's proudest moment" on HBO and a total absence of concern for the wreckage the military left behind...
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL II (HBO, Dec. 17, 21). Montreal's fantastical theatrical circus troupe presents an all-new show, spotlighting a bewitching company of aerialists, acrobats, contortionists and clowns...
That emotion is what makes Play by Play: A History of Sports Television, a two-part HBO special, the most exhilarating documentary of the year. The old clips are irresistible and surprisingly fresh. In the very first sports telecast, a 1939 college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton, viewers couldn't even see the ball. Later came technical advances like the portable camera and the instant replay, and visionaries like ABC's Roone Arledge, who discovered that the thrill of victory could be the stuff of great drama. The program is packed with memorable highlights (Hank Aaron's 715th homer...