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...Gore's new office at the network's quasi-industrial San Francisco studio, there are no photos or other White House mementos to suggest that this is the man who, as he likes to put it, "used to be the next President of the United States." But anyone who knew him then would recognize the giant whiteboards he always kept handy for scrawling his inspirations on. Those much remarked-upon earth tones of his presidential campaign have been traded for the head-to-toe man-in-black look that passes for the uniform of the new media executive...
...Gore insists that Current TV has, if anything, become more open. "Our vision was then, and is now, to go from the old studio-based production model that is still used by everybody else out there, where a small group of people in a television studio makes the programming that everybody else watches, and go to a democratized medium where everybody has a chance to learn how to make television," he says. The network will even teach people how, with free online media training by veteran journalists, educators from journalism and film schools, and celebrities...
...hire a new CEO, a role Geffen took on at investors' request. Spielberg just wants to make movies; Katzenberg is CEO of the publicly traded animation company, which remains majority owned by DreamWorks' founders and early investors. Success has been spotty on all fronts. DreamWorks never built the studio complex it had planned and gave up on its TV, record and Internet ambitions. Its animated movies--other than the Shrek franchise--have been unspectacular. "Probably our eyes were bigger than our stomachs," Geffen tells TIME. "We made a lot of mistakes, and hopefully, we'll make fewer in the future...
...seed money was perhaps a fifth of what was needed, says media investor Harold Vogel, author of Entertainment Industry Economics. But the backbreaker has been DVD sales, where many films now derive most of their profit. Moviemakers are so beholden to retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy that studio execs routinely confer with them before setting release dates. There are so many new releases that retailers afford each a much shorter shelf life. And with 80% of U.S. households owning DVD players, fewer people are rushing out to replace their old tapes--slowing DVD sales. Those shifts have made...
...Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had a black man (the gifted Mantan Moreland) for comic relief. Yet there's a pinchpenny gusto and some nifty plot twists to these Monogram studio marvels...