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...running times. Of the 50 nominees in the past decade for the Motion Picture Academy's Oscar for Best Picture, 28 have run more than two hours, and five have been at least three hours long. This year looks to continue the trend: The Right Stuff (3 hr. 11 min.) is sure to be nominated for Best Picture, and Scarf ace (2 hr. 50 min., nearly twice as long as the 1932 gangster classic on which it is closely based) has an outside shot...
Fowler should watch television more than one hour a week. If he did, he would not want to abolish the 16 min.-per-hr. limit on commercials. Without that maximum, it would be, "We interrupt these commercials to bring you entertainment...
Thursday's 2-hr. 15-min. missile meeting produced no movement between the two sides. The Soviets then insisted that the next meeting take place on Wednesday, Nov. 23. The demand was aimed at providing time for Moscow to digest the outcome of the Bundestag debate on the Pershing II deployment, which is not scheduled to come to a vote until late Tuesday...
...that obligates broadcasters to air opposing views on issues of public importance. He wants to eradicate the "777 Rule," which aims to promote diversity by preventing companies from owning more than seven AM, seven FM and seven TV stations. He has proposed an end to the 16-min.-per-hr. limit on television commercials. Fowler also wants to do away with the comparative renewal process, which verifies whether broadcasters are meeting minimal requirements to air nonentertainment fare such as news, public affairs and educational programming. In recent weeks the FCC has been at the center of a highly publicized controversy...
...Jews have a word for what it took to make this movie: chutzpah. Barbra Streisand-the producer, director, co-writer and star of Yentl-spent 15 years turning Isaac Bashevis Singer's 20-page story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy into a 2-hr. 15-min. musical extravaganza. At 41, she dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's story-of a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fiancee-into a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice. She has found in this...