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Former Mickey Mouse maven Jeffrey Katzenberg knows a sweet deal when he doesn't get one. As head of filmmaking for the Walt Disney Co., Katzenberg was entitled to 2% of the profits from films and TV shows produced under his watch, says a suit he filed last week against his old employer. That could amount to a Lion King's ransom, because Katzenberg's definition of profits includes much more than income from movie tickets. "By way of example," says the suit, "in 1994 Disney's video re-release of Snow White, an animated feature first released over...
...senses a week later in another Roseanne episode, which satirized a Disney-style theme park where workers are brainwashed into cheery uniformity. Yet viewers could be excused for feeling a bit like outsiders at a family dinner where all the conversation consists of in-jokes. Ever since the Walt Disney Co. announced its $19 billion purchase of ABC last summer, Hollywood has looked for signs that the network of Home Improvement, Ted Koppel and NYPD Blue is being transformed into a subdivision of the Magic Kingdom. Leave it to Roseanne to get the issue out in the open...
...Britain, Denmark, Israel, Syria, Australia and China. Even Hollywood showed up: ABC, NBC, TNT, Warner Bros. Television and Carsey-Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
...meeting stopped short of a session of Name That TV Theme. Even so, the rare assemblage of media moguls--among them Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, Atlanta cable baron Ted Turner and Walt Disney president Michael Ovitz--gave Clinton good reason to be pleased. They announced plans to develop a ratings system that would label shows high in sex, violence or other adult material. Their action was spurred by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which will require new TV sets to have the V chip, a device that enables parents to block out objectionable shows. Though network executives have long opposed government...
...Luks boasted that he could paint with a shoestring dipped in lard and tar. The artist, smearing oily gunk on a cloth with bristles, is immersed in mess--a manual worker of images. This makes him one with the city and its people. For poetic spirit, he should emulate Walt Whitman, learning to embrace the body of the city and contain multitudes, dirt and all. The masculine realism of Winslow Homer inspired all the Ashcan artists--they, especially Henri and Bellows, wanted to be Homers of the city...