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...naive-to-their-knee-socks Bradys were turned into foulmouthed hellions. "It was vulgar," says Schwartz. "Instead of making it a gentle satire, it was written with an ax." Schwartz, who has four children and has been married to his wife Mildred for 54 years, fired off memos to Paramount chief Sherry Lansing, threatening to campaign against the film should it contain racy scenes or base language. He won. The film, which transports the Formica-loving clan to a '90s world of fast teenagers, evil developers and psychotherapy, was much more to his liking. But the stress took its toll...
...debate over how to handle the problem pits the freewheeling techno- cowboys of the computer and telecommunications industries against traditional advocates for the poor. The computer and telecommunications industries proclaim a paramount faith in market forces, at least partly because they fear eventual government regulation of access to the infobahn. As they see it, the forces of competition and the marketplace will drive the prices of equipment and online services downward and make both increasingly available to the less affluent...
...Paramount among the collective leadership group is President and Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. In spite of those titles, Jiang is viewed as a lightweight politician and possibly a short-term transition figure. An easy way to toughen up his unimpressive image is to stand up to the U.S. on trade. Jiang is unlikely to offer anything that could be read as a concession to Washington...
...PARAMOUNT NETWORK Rides runaway success of new Trek show to smashing debut...
...promoting Hardy's poetry above all else -- above the television adaptations, the novels that inspired them and all the unsubstantiated but unshakable rumors about the writer's romantic pursuits. (he was -- take your pick -- impotent, licentiously heterosexual or repressedly homosexual.) Hardy's life makes clear that his poetry was paramount. He trained initially as an architect, abandoned that profession for novel writing, then abandoned that one for verse writing...