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...Newhouse empire, which also owns GQ, purports to offer some hard-hitting pieces. But Doug Vaughan's story about rooting through the confiscated files of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega breaks little news beyond some eye-popping Visa-card bills. Maura Sheehy's portrait of Fox TV as the "ninja" fourth network is hyped with adrenal adjectives and metaphors to the point of incoherence. Details shows glints of awareness of an America beyond white male plutocrats. But when it is not trendy, it is often aggressively vulgar...
COMING OUT OF THEIR SHELLS. There is more to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than movies, TV, comics, toys, candy and juice drinks. Now they have their own concert tour, destined for 40 cities through 1991 (this week: Milwaukee, Oct. 10-14; next stop: Detroit, Oct. 17-21). The 90-min. audience-participation show features many live-action characters familiar to turtle fans, including the metal-cloaked villain Shredder. With humor aimed at parents as well, this could be a perfect first concert for kids. Ready for pre-schoolers dancing in the aisles...
Heard that bouncy Wilson Phillips sound on the radio? Remember the way cool sound track from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? How about the fresh funk of Technotronic, the band that opened for Madonna on her recent concert tour? As it happens, all this music is on the SBK label. How's that...
Moviegoers, of course, don't pay for the cost of a movie. They are as likely to spurn a megamovie as they are to embrace a pinchpenny picture like Ninja Turtles. But for now, moguls are willing to believe that the VCR revolution has made the movie industry slump-proof; 1990 may not match last summer, but it should still be the second biggest-grossing summer ever. And viewers may dare to hope that amid the bigger bangs for bigger bucks, Hollywood doesn't forget how to make good movies...
...came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from the Ninja Turtles and the Simpsons, who fell into their fads and weren't made (or drawn) to order. "We created a niche," Scott says. "And we filled a void...