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...Trek was never, and hopefully never will be, my vision of the future," says Berman, 48, a former documentary filmmaker and children's TV producer. "It's Gene Roddenberry's vision that I agreed to uphold." The job is trickier than it might seem. Berman, a vice president at Paramount when Roddenberry tapped him as the producer of The Next Generation, has had to sail his enterprise between the Scylla of Roddenberry's own "prime directive" -- a stricture against any conflict among members of Starfleet -- and the Charybdis of mass-market appeal...
According to Paramount TV research, Star Trek's regular weekly audience of more than 20 million includes more high-income, college-educated viewers (as well as more men) than the average TV show. Even at the better than 200 Trekkie conventions held each year, the clientele is more likely to be middle- ! aged couples with kids in tow than computer geeks sporting Vulcan ears. "In the early days, everyone had a shirt and a costume," says Mary Warren, who was selling Trek apparel at a recent convention in Tucson, Arizona. "Now you get all these normal people in here." Among...
...York City for Christmas and you've already seen the Rockettes do their kicking thing at Radio City Music Hall, this year there's a new alternative on a similar scale: A lavish $12 million production of "A Christmas Carol" at the Paramount theater (located conveniently above Penn Station) starts previewing today. With top-notch composers and stage designers "it could be a must-see for families" says TIME critic Elizabeth L. Bland.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...since HBS, like all graduate MBA programs, is essentially a trade school, one would think that the element of job placement would prove paramount. The huge number of applicants (and universal desire to attend once accepted) indicates that MBAs appreciate this well-known fact about...
...least four daily "newscasts" cover it, and a host of more traditional outlets -- from the network morning shows to the prime-time TV newsmagazines -- are paying increasing attention to it. And there's a war going on: between Entertainment Tonight, the bubbly, 13-year-old show distributed by Paramount TV to 167 stations, and Extra -- The Entertainment Magazine, a newcomer from Warner Bros. television, which started early this month on 125 outlets...