Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question about it," says Valeri Cade, president of the audio-and- video publishing division of Simon & Schuster, "there is a big future for books on tape. We've doubled the number of accounts every six months, when we come out with a new list." Agrees Mitchell Deutsch, president of Warner Audio Publishing: "There is a mass market out there. I'm predicting that we will see a 50% to 100% growth in the next five years. It is a fabulous, exciting new development in publishing...
...Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video touting a previous hit, The Jewel of the Nile? Or as the voice of the sweet-souled Grundle King in the cartoon feature My Little Pony? Or as a bustling writer, director and producer? Sure: Danny DeVito as a trash- compacted Stallone-Springsteen-Copp ola. And he is cute...
...possible teaching application also currently under investigation is a video transmission network, Ray said...
...closet highbrow who orchestrated comedy to Bartok and Beethoven. A talk-show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David Letterman...
Then there was Kovacs the video experimenter. In his hallucinatory world, illusion and reality were frequently confused. Paintings came to life or "leaked" into the real world; a man removed a candle from a table, and the flame remained suspended in midair. In his famous silent special, Kovacs played a Chaplinesque character named Eugene, who drew a lamp and then switched it on, and visited a library where sounds emanated from the books (when he opened Camille, a woman coughed). When he sat at a table and opened his lunch box, pieces of fruit rolled inexplicably off one end. Both...