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Carr sets up a good puzzle, and his story is so well told that Paramount has paid $500,000 for the film rights to The Alienist, but it is his ability to re-create the past that is truly impressive (his last book was a biography of an American who led Chinese armies in the 19th century). The brooding, detailed cityscapes and rich historical set pieces are the best parts of The Alienist. Carr -- and the reader -- has great fun, in particular, with a chaotic scene in Theodore Roosevelt's parlor, as T.R.'s thoroughly modern children coax...
...Bell Atlantic-TCI merger came about after the two sides failed to agree on a purchase price. Last week Liberty Media, which is controlled by TCI chairman John Malone, said it wants to form an alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment in a deal that could threaten the already shaky Viacom-Paramount-Blockbuster merger. Another contender, Time Warner, announced that an expected spring start-up of its experimental interactive television networks in Orlando, Florida, will now come in late fall...
...Paramount studio head will be first to roll in the Viacom...
...partners. "There's plenty of adrenaline pumping here," Smith says. "We are a company on the prowl." So is TCI. No sooner had the merger collapsed than rumors began flying of a joint expedition by Malone and Barry Diller, who had only just lost his five-month fight for Paramount Communications, to find themselves a Hollywood studio...
...battle for Paramount ended rather anticlimactically on Monday, when shareholders finally voted more than the required 50.1% of their shares to Viacom for about $80 a share. The new company's properties now include, among others, MTV, Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster and a debt of $10 billion...