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...Pryor's role in his 1973 melodrama Some Call It Loving. It can also be tough to maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter and gift for mimicry.) But even back-burner Pryor is hot enough. Savor the funny bits on herpes, abortion clinics, nuclear holocausts and men's-room etiquette. And tune in next year for The Pryor Next Time...
...idea for the program came from Michael Fuchs, president of HBO's entertainment division, who thought that the times covered and the way TIME covered them would make for a lively combination of film and words. The show was made for HBO by Bruce Cohn Productions and overseen by Fuchs and Bridget Potter, HBO vice president for original programming...
Using TIME as the basis for film reports was not unfamiliar to an earlier generation of TIME editors during the years (1935-51) when the MARCH OF TIME was a popular feature in movie theaters. For the current project, HBO staff members went out of their way to involve the editors as well as representatives of the publisher's office. The show was even checked for accuracy by reporter-researchers, in the manner of TIME stories. "It was a collaborative effort all the way through," says Potter. "TIME's editors seemed very interested in the experience of working...
...late-breaking news, such as a Jack Benny cover that was scrapped for Winston Churchill and the outbreak of World War II. "In making this show," says Fuchs, "we learned a lot about the role TIME has played in shaping the history of the past 60 years. At HBO, which is just eleven years old, we were thrilled to work with an organization that has so much tradition and history...
What Disney and Playboy offer, notes Paul Kagan, publisher of Pay TV New-letter and a respected analyst of the industry, is "a departure from the essentially movie based programming of HBO. Showtime, Cinemax and The Movie Channel. They are not trying to be all things to all people." As exponents of the technique of "narrowcasting" (aiming at a relatively small and well-defined audience), the two channels add what cable pros call "complementary tiers" to the mix of available programming...