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Laybourne moved on to a bigger commercial market last February, when she was hired by the new Disney/abc media combine to oversee cable operations. One big project, a 24-hour news channel, has just been shelved, but Laybourne will have ample opportunity to test another of her pet ideas: that doing good and making money are not incompatible concepts. "I'm an idealist," she says, "and I don't make any apologies for that...
...most powerful man in broadcasting is not even debatable. That title automatically goes to one of the network heads. What is certain is how badly he wishes he still held his old crown: most influential. That's what he was a few years ago, when his "stupid pet tricks" and Top 10 lists were undoing the conventions of the late-night talk show. But influence can lose its cutting edge, especially when others (see Jay Leno) begin to copy...
...think you've seen this film before, a few years ago, when it was called Free Willy, and you dozed in your seat as your child sat rapt in communion with a lonely lad and his pet whale. Now it's Flipper, a remake of the 1963 film that spawned two sequels and a TV series. But it's still the same primal kitsch: boy finds dolphin, boy loves dolphin, adults wonder what's the big deal with the boy and his dolphin. Jeez! Adults don't understand anything...
Though she draws heavily on the combined wisdom of her friends, Hanson sometimes speaks from personal experience. For instance, when she found out the names of her three future Pennypacker roommates, she wrote them a humorous letter in which she said she would be "bringing an uncaged, 'outgoing' pet frog with [her]. At the time it seemed like a delightful display of wit, but as the weeks passed and no reply arrived, it began to seem more like a proclamation of lunacy." Hanson concludes, "First impressions count...
...have this right: Sean Connery is a cute medieval dragon who breaks into Alcatraz. Psycho groupie Robert De Niro tracks Flipper all the way to Alaska. Schwarzenegger takes the Brady Bunch into Witness Protection. Danny DeVito and Shaquille O'Neal--twins! Bill Murray goes bowling with his pet elephant. A tornado spits a giant spaceship onto the White House lawn and out steps the most destructive alien force the world has ever known: Jim Carrey...