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...nation's leading producer of electronic cash registers and the world's largest manufacturer of automated teller machines for banks. The company is the third biggest issuer of credit cards, behind only American Express and Citibank. It has also expanded into the field of multimedia (machines that can combine text, graphics, sound and video) by buying pieces of EO, interactive computer maker 3DO Co. and software start-up General Magic. Earlier this month, the phone giant entered the video-game business through a joint venture with Sega Enterprises that will enable players to take on opponents over...
...sure thing: for sending out a $1,400 print of Last Jurassic Action Park, studios get $1 from every ticket sold. Manufacturing and shipping CDs, a business that employs tens of thousands of people, is similarly dull and profitable. Still, the moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony's Columbia Pictures, can hardly afford to be anti-high-tech. "At Sony the grand plan is combining software and hardware...
More than anything else, the showmen are worried that the pumped-up glamour and hype on which their businesses depend will leach away if audiences can pick and choose and consume in electronic solitude. "We are standing on a revolutionary threshold," says MCA's Teller of on-line delivery. "But I don't believe the highest form of human existence is sitting at home in a cocoon downloading digital bits...
...interest in a memoir, especially a good one like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, is voice-activated. It's not so much the tale as the teller, the tone he takes about himself, what he makes out of past experience, that seizes and holds our attention. It follows that an autobiography is not the ideal foundation for a movie; the two forms are antithetical. It also follows that This Boy's Life, though seriously meant and conscientiously made, doesn't quite work...
...long ago, one had to go up to to a bank teller after waiting in line for hours to make a withdrawl; today there are automated teller machines (ATMs) that dispense cold cash as quickly as you can spend it. But there are still those who complain that it takes too long for the machine to honor their requests...