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...outfit DreamWorks SKG. Last week, for $8.8 billion, the chemical giant bought back most of Seagram's 24.1% of Du Pont stock. Time Warner, of which Seagram owns a provocative 14.9%, braced for a messy stock scramble should Bronfman sell his shares. DreamWorks also looked to the shy, dapper mogul for indications that he would retain MCA's current, embattled management and thus be in line to distribute the new company's movies...
...LONG AGO, HARRY Cohn, the legendary film mogul, found himself contemplating the minuscule grosses of some historical epic set in the 18th century and decreed that henceforth no picture emanating from his studio would feature men in wigs and knee breeches writing with quill pens...
From the start, says West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, "the key was exclusive, firsthand access." Jeffrey Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent, was able to chat with Spielberg at his Pacific Palisades home. He interviewed Geffen in the record mogul's austere office. And he was with Katzenberg from the producer's trademark dawn breakfast meetings through his final business phone calls, way past the Letterman hour. Says Ressner: "While all three men were press-savvy, they opened up and seemed genuinely stoked about their new adventure together...
...HOLLYWOOD'S LATEST CATCHPHRASE, successor to "Let's do lunch," "My fax will talk to your fax," and "I'm gonna kill and eat your children." Now, when a mogul wants to give you the long view, he gazes ceilingward and intones...
...school.'' How relevant are Dalton's experiments to all those old-fashioned schools across the country with strained budgets and less privileged kids? Very relevant, insists headmaster Dunnan. Sure, it takes serious money and expertise to create something like Archaeotype, he concedes. (Dalton received $3.7 million from real estate mogul Robert Tishman to develop technology.) ``But once something is developed, it need not be very expensive.'' To prove that point, Dalton has begun to offer its learning technology to a few public schools. The Juarez Lincoln Elementary School in Chula Vista, California, for instance, has been using Archaeotype for three...