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...remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals and, perhaps as a result, deliver lower profit margins than they once did. ABC, snapped up by Eisner back in 1995, has suffered its own turmoil and a ratings free fall (this past season brought the network the indignity...
George A. Plimpton '48 is an acclaimed writer and humorist, perhaps best-known for Paper Lion, a book describing his brief foray as a member of the Detroit Lions. He is also the editor of The Paris Review. While an undergraduate, he enjoyed mocking The Crimson as a member of a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Microsoft has decided to beard the lion in his lair and ask a federal appeals court flat out if a preliminary injunction prevents it from bundling the Internet Explorer browser into Windows 98. With the release date of Windows 98 fast approaching, Microsoft can't play chicken much longer. The company's spin on the matter makes the release of Windows 98 sound like some unpredictable natural phenomenon, like the migration of caribou, that would be unnatural to prevent, and Microsoft invokes the image of a pathetic, browserless Windows that "would bear little, if any, resemblance to Windows 98." Well...
...Broadway, which has two big new hits (Ragtime and The Lion King) and is headed for its highest-grossing season ever, the musical is doing O.K. But for genuine, up-to-date, classic Broadway, true believers flock each spring to City Center for three new enthralling installments (of only five performances each) in the Encores! series. Now in its fifth season under executive director Judith Daykin, Encores! has spawned a Broadway hit (Chicago) and inspired concert programs in Los Angeles and Washington...
...there a party at the Lion's Club tonight...