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...often to go deep and hope something good happens. And that's exactly what three television networks did last week, reaching deep into their pockets to pay $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005. Says Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., the Walt Disney Co.-owned media firm, which spent $9.2 billion on both network and cable-television rights: "Losing would have been devastating...
...boom is being fueled largely by two relatively new corporate players: the Walt Disney Co., which has two shows pulling in the family audience (Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King); and Livent Inc., the Canadian company run by impresario Garth Drabinsky that has produced Ragtime along with such crowd pleasers as Barrymore and the hit revival of Show Boat. Both companies have brought fresh ideas--economic and artistic--to Broadway as well as deep pockets: The Lion King cost a reported $20 million to mount, a Broadway record; Ragtime came in for about half that, but Drabinsky...
McCarthy ranted, and students were arrested andbeaten by the carload in the "Pogo riots," whencartoonist Walt Kelly arrived in Cambridge for a1952 speech about his creation. A number ofCrimson editors landed in jail, in what would bethe first of several times in the next two decadeswhen the Middlesex County Jail would serve as amotel for Harvard students...
...showplace on New York City's 42nd Street. In the bump and grind of the years after, both the street and the theater saw hard times. By the 1980s, the New Amsterdam was a wreck. Now, after a wizardly revitalization by Hugh Hardy, one sponsored by the Walt Disney Co., it's back in all its rose-bowered, peacocked, multichromed, Art Nouveau glory...
DIED. LILLIAN DISNEY, 98, Walt Disney's benevolent widow, who helped found the California Institute of the Arts; in Los Angeles. Disney coined the moniker Mickey Mouse, wisely persuading her husband to give up his choice: Mortimer...