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...ensuing affiliate scramble, the established networks found themselves forced to boost the amount of money they pay their affiliates for airing network programs. NBC's payout alone increased by a reported $100 million a year. Further insult arrived when NBC learned that a company funded jointly by Fox and Savoy Pictures had made a deal to buy four NBC affiliates and realign them with Fox. Says an attorney for a competing network: "Murdoch pushes and pushes and pushes until somebody says, 'Stop! Enough...
Popular comedies are always light, but "Circle of Friends" practically floats away. You walk out feeling that you have seen this movie before. If you're looking for a genuinely Irish film experience, pick up a pint of Guinness and rent "The Quiet Man." PhotosCourtesy of Savoy Pictures...
...such August fantasies were not to be, not in Cleveland, Ohio, nor anywhere else in the green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their...
Amid the noise of jostling photographers and clacking shutters, the two combatants finally squared off last Tuesday on the stage of the Savoy Theater in London. In one corner, the challenger and clear crowd favorite, a pink- cheeked, brush-cut 28-year-old and the first native-born Briton ever to contend for the world title. In the other, the defending champ, an Armenian- born egoist, 30, with killer instincts and a reputation as the best warrior of all time. At stake: competitive pride and a purse of $2.6 million...
...achieve the critical mass- market niche necessary to pay top players what they now think they are worth? To those who do not know the game, televised chess can seem slightly less enthralling than a test pattern. Despite all the hype, Kasparov and Short have not yet filled the Savoy to its 1,030-seat capacity. As both championship matches stretch on, and the war between FIDE and the top two players escalates, chess fans may come to wonder whether they are experiencing an embarrassment of riches or merely an embarrassment...