Word: studioful
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...merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network, a Website for computer purchases. He isn't discussing his future plans, but the Web is surely central to them. "It is absolutely clear as a bell to me," Diller says, "that server technology and wide bandwidth will transform the way we acquire...
According to the Law School study, the median rent for studio and one-bedroom apartments increased by $375, or 79 percent, after rent control was eliminated...
BEVERLY HILLS: Independent films gave the major studios a beating as the Oscar nominees were announced. Four of the five best picture nominees were made by smaller studios. Topping the list was the wartime romance "The English Patient," which reaped 12 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best actor and best actress. Other best picture nominees include "Fargo," "Shine," "Secrets & Lies," and TriStar's "Jerry Maguire," the only picture from a major studio slated for the award. Despite the heavy PR that heralded the film's release, "Evita," a rework of Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's stage hit, failed...
Until last month, only the Scientologists and human-rights observers were paying much attention to what was going on in Germany. Then a startling letter appeared in the International Herald Tribune, signed by 34 show-biz celebrities and studio executives, comparing the purported discrimination suffered by Scientologists in Germany today to the "unspeakable horrors" perpetrated against the Jews in the 1930s. That comparison provoked outrage in the American Jewish community. Last week the State Department stepped in to address the charges in its influential yearly Human Rights Report. Spokesman Nicholas Burns went even further than the report, flatly accusing Germany...
...studio boss acknowledges being "mindful" of a desire to do a film with Travolta when Fields' request crossed his desk. "When I get a letter from Bert Fields, right or wrong, I give it more credence," he says. "Should I have spent more time on it? Maybe. But if there is persecution in the world, isn't that a bad thing?" Several others maintain they signed to pose the same question. "If you asked me, do I know a great deal about Scientology, I do not," acknowledges former MCA president Sid Sheinberg. "But I don't think I have...