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...YORK CITY: Mired firmly in third place during the 1996-97 televison season, ABC execs needed to do something to shake things up. Their solution? Frequent flyer miles. The Disney network announced it will give out miles on American Airlines to anyone who will watch their shows. The catch is that there's homework involved: You have to fill out questionaires to prove you watched shows like 'Ellen' and didn't just hear the highlights at the office. ABC did not say how many miles you could get through the program, or whether you would get more credit for watching...
Most insiders think Tarses' job is safe for now, if only because Disney and ABC can ill afford the embarrassment of another high-profile executive shake-up. Last December, Michael Ovitz, the former superagent who spearheaded the effort to hire Tarses, resigned after a troubled 14-month tenure as Eisner's No. 2 executive. The news division is currently going through a rocky transition, as longtime president Roone Arledge has been promoted and his successor, David Westin, is weathering a messy scandal over his affair with the network's top public relations executive, Sherrie Rollins...
...boxed and packaged along with the anthologies, this album shows his muse is still very much with him." BOOKS . . . THE GOOD BROTHER: "Chris Offutt is a prize-winning short-story writer ('Kentucky Straight'), and in his tough, funny, sometimes brilliantly written first novel, he can't quite shake the habit," says TIME's John Skow. 'The Good Brother' (Simon & Schuster; 317 pages; $23) could not be simpler or more direct in its narrative plan: a good man, Virgil Caudill, caught in a crushing predicament not of his making, commits a murder that seems unavoidable, abandons his home in the Kentucky...
...trial and do a book and movie rights...Something that's worth the Enquirer?'...You talked about a million dollars, and it just rolled off your tongue, didn't it?" Fortier quietly answered, "Yes." Sarcastic and sneering, Jones made cracks in Fortier's character, but he did not shake the witness on any matter of substance...
...knows? With all this talk of summer, I am not thinking clearly. But neither will you. Summer thickens everyone's intelligence. Look up summer in the Oxford English Dictionary, and you will find this citation (whose spelling I have modernized): "I had rather shiver and shake for cold in the middle of summer, than burn in the middle of winter...