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...lineup is once again heavy with sequels and action flicks. Among them: Universal's $40 million Back to the Future III; Disney's $30 million Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty and Madonna; Warner Bros.' $32 million Gremlins 2; and Paramount's $45 million Another 48 Hrs. "This is the summer of the blockbuster," says Sidney Ganis, president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group. "If one or more of them fail, next summer there won't be nearly as many rolling...
Bette Midler will play Mother Earth, and Madonna will shimmy for the rain forest. Tennesseans will ring bells across their state; Oregonians will bang drums. Elephants will crush aluminum cans at Washington's National Zoo in a jungle version of recycling. Manhattan will display the world's largest energy-efficient light bulb. And the Walt Disney Co. will distribute a video about water pollution, starring the Little Mermaid...
...humor magazine Spy tabulates the number of times Liz's favorites are named in her column: the Today show's Deborah Norville shares top honors with Barbara Walters, both having garnered a mention every six days on average. (Frank Sinatra and Sylvester Stallone crop up every eight days; Madonna gets a boost every twelve.) Boston Herald gossip columnist Norma Nathan thinks Smith is a celebrity groupie who protects her pals: "She's so In, she's Out. She's become part of the story...
...years of news clips and sound bites strung together in barely cohesive fashion. Cut from the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team's "miracle on ice" to a shot of Madonna's "Material Girl" video. Then Ivan Boesky and Michael Miliken. Then pan to a lone Chinese demonstrator staring down an armored division. Then a crowd of drunken kids dancing below the Brandenburg Gate...
...Government (who are on my side after all) early, early on granted this media man the right to treat as important only those things which are immediately appreciable as dynamic and exiciting, such as famine war and pestilence and otherwise exciting and sound-biteable things like charisma, Madonna, valuable political wisdom, the lifespan of the common gnat, poll results, arms agreements, editorial comments, earth evaporating nuclear strikes...hey, what a Sound Bite that would be, get that on all the networks, yeah boy. News Flash! and we do mean flash. And we do mean bite. And we do mean noise...