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...Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz, Perelman began to build an entertainment empire in 1989 when he bought New World, a small producer of movies and TV shows (Crime Story, The Wonder Years). Last year he started acquiring TV stations, first buying seven local outlets owned by then bankrupt SCI Television and later picking up eight more from two other station groups, in deals that are in various states of completion...
...more than sport. It was romance. It meant meeting our destiny. Today it means little more than physical displacement. Compare the films of the early space age with the sci-fi of today. Compare 2001 with Robocop, Close Encounters with The Terminator. Compare John Kennedy's thrilling pledge to race to the moon with . . . what? No politician talks that way anymore. The new frontier is not the moon. It's HMOs...
This season what plugged-in Americans ages 6 to 11 are graduating to is the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Fox), an absurdly camp, live-action sci-fi show that in the past three months, airing six days a week, has become the top- rated children's program on TV. In Los Angeles the half-hour show has already garnered ratings that rival Oprah Winfrey...
...sci-fi revulsion at cloning has continued to the present day. Even a show as technologically hip as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ran an episode where the crew of the Enterprise defended their individuality by destroying clones of themselves made from stolen tissue...
...another planet Jaye Davidson will again play I've Got a Secret. The Crying Game transvestite is about to don the robes of King Ra in the sci- fi epic Stargate. What's Jaye's gender this time? The producers coyly say only that Ra is an "enigmatic ruler...