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ROOTS: THE GIFT (ABC, Dec. 11, 9 p.m. EST). Christmas on the plantation with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) and other personages re-created from TV's legendary mini-series...
Geffen is already a mini-conglomerate, making its mark in three entertainment fields: music, movies and Broadway. On Geffen Records, the debut album by rockers Guns N' Roses was ranked No. 4 on last week's Billboard chart. The Geffen film division scored this year's sleeper hit, the comic ghost story Beetlejuice; Geffen Theater co-produced M. Butterfly, the 1988 Tony Award winner for best play...
...noses out of joint with his grisly NBC special on satanic cults. Male strippers flaunted their pecs and pelvises in the ABC movie Ladykillers, while NBC's The F.B.I. Murders culminated in perhaps the longest and bloodiest shoot-out in TV history. Even the classy ABC mini-series War and Remembrance turned off some viewers with its graphic scenes of Nazi atrocities...
...votes rolled in on Tuesday evening and the networks' maps took on overwhelmingly Republican colors, it was clear that George Bush was on his way to a decisive victory. His mini-landslide seemed an only slightly diluted version of the two previous Republican triumphs, just as Bush's philosophy seemed an only slightly diluted version of Ronald Reagan's. The triumph was a personal validation for Bush, who had managed during the 1988 campaign to transform his gawky and feckless image into a warm persona that voters found comfortable. It was also an expression of general contentment with the nation...
Minutes after the anniversary broadcast began in Braga (pop. 125,000), a mini-panic was on. Said Antonio Costa Guimares, one of the show's producers: "It was total chaos." While some residents fled, others rushed to the * spot where the fearsome extraterrestrials were said to have been sighted. In a show of strength that would have startled any alien bold enough to advance on Braga, a local fire chief sent two fire trucks roaring about in search of the outer-space cadets. The program, which had been announced well in advance, was intended as homage to Orson Welles...