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PRINT AND TV JOURNALISM DON'T usually mix well. Print journalists snipe that TV is shallow and addicted to sizzle, while TV journalists scoff that print is slow and ponderous. Here at Time Inc., however, detente has been declared, thanks largely to Joe Quinlan and George Kindel, executive producer and senior producer of The News Exchange, the company's TV-production unit. Our most recent peace dividend can be seen on April 5, when the Discovery Channel will air CyberSpace, a one-hour special filmed in collaboration with the TIME journalists who prepared the cyberspace issue published in mid-March...
Among the citizens of cyberspace met by Kindel and his crew were "Lusty 212," a private eye turned matchmaker who brings together hundreds of lonely people for cybercompanionship; artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who is using the Internet to send out samples from her latest CD-ROM; and "The Visible Man," a dead criminal who has been sliced ("by what looked like a giant salami-slicing machine," recalls Kindel) into 1,800 pieces, all of them digitally photographed and stored for online inspection by medical students all over the world...
...Kindel and Quinlan, both former newspapermen who have also logged time in TV, have been guiding TIME journalists into other video ventures too. Since 1991, more than 20 of the magazine's writers and correspondents have appeared in 60 segments of the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. The Time video group's next outlet, beginning later this year, will be Time Warner Inc.'s Full Service Network, an experimental cable system in Orlando, Florida...
Less wealthy furniture buyers have developed a fancy for Early American pieces as well, which has spurred a market for machine-made reproductions. Since the sale of the Newport desk, Kindel Furniture of Grand Rapids has booked orders for 110 replicas at $19,000 each. Buyers who prefer the real thing can choose pieces from a second tier of expertly designed antiques selling...
...galling was that there was a certain amount of truth in the gibe. As film making in Southern California has become more expensive and more difficult, other states have moved aggressively to capture a business traditionally synonymous with Hollywood. "We're losing the feature-film business," declares Maureen Kindel, president of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works. "It's as simple as that. It's a lucrative, non-polluting and glamorous industry, and other states are making a tremendous drive to take it away from...