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...glasses to become one of the Blues Brothers on TV show Saturday Night Live and in movies, now helps run the House of Blues, a Hard Rock Cafe-style restaurant chain that features blues-inspired live music. The chain has spawned a TV series on the U.S. cable channel tbs called Live from the House of Blues, which features blues-tinged acts like the rock group Hootie & the Blowfish...
...maybe this time he would use the remote control as a divining rod for sports, paging all channels in search of something mutually agreeable. The Braves on TBS, the NHL on Sportschannel America, college basketball everywhere...these were the mainstream diversions, but if the World Nine-Ball championships came on ESPN late at night, we might have watched that too, at least for a while...
Still, the networks are busy looking for new ways in which they can profit from the afterlife of their shows. NBC is engaged in exploratory talks with Ted Turner, the Atlanta cable entrepreneur who has long hankered to own a broadcast network. NBC views Turner's cable networks TBS and TNT as a promising market for NBC reruns. Explains network president Braun: "Historically, what's always happened is that the broadcast networks create the value for a show and the third parties are able to exploit it in the aftermarket. Now the networks can participate in the value they create...
...music, written for a documentary series that aired last month on the TBS cable network, is highly collaborative. Robertson is listed as the writer or arranger of seven songs; the remaining 12 are credited to various members of the Red Road Ensemble. But any Robertson fan will feel his prevailing touch, sure and mystic, in the eldritch rhythms of songs like Twisted Hair, Golden Feather and It Is a Good Day to Die, which combine the intricate textures of Native American song and dance with a surreptitious modernism that has its roots in both old blues and new electronic programming...
...Native American culture, both high and pop. The museum's opening is a prelude to the much larger, $60 million | Smithsonian Indian edifice to be opened in Washington in 2001. And it coincides with the vast, vastly earnest, 6-hr. recasting of Indian history on Ted Turner's TBS (the sound track, featuring Mohawk singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson, forms the basis of a critically acclaimed CD). In Buena Vista, California, Disney artists are shaping the studio's next big-ticket animated film: Pocohantas...