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...forces with the long-distance company Sprint to develop a design of a seamless nationwide system for delivering cable and telephone service. Meanwhile, a number of the Baby Bell phone companies have turned to Hollywood. Ameritech, Bell South and Southwestern Bell (now SBC Communications) are teaming up with the Walt Disney Co. to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis have been talking with superagent Michael Ovitz about forming an alliance to make and distribute films. The idea is to create a coalition, or umbrella, that would enable the telephone...
...film is not without problems. One wishes Diego and the other gay characters weren't such stereotypes. In addition to sporting the traditional lisp, limp wrists and swishy hips, Diego listens to Maria Callas, reads Cavafy and Walt Whitman and drinks Indian tea from Sevres cups. It seems as if the gay men burst into tears at regular intervals, and Gutierrez Alea can't resist the trap of the gay-man-as-tragic-queen-in-love-with-a-straight-ma n cliche. Frankly, it is difficult to see why Diego is so interested in David, who is terribly callous...
...info-fest held last Friday was really little more than an extension of the corporate recruiting process that is already in full swing. Consider: Of the 87 firms represented, over 60 were in either consulting, investment banking or financial services. Even Walt Disney, a seemingly refreshing face at the event, was offering positions in Strategic Planning and Treasury...
...domestic box office (E.T., Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Jurassic Park and The Flintstones) have come from Spielberg's Amblin. Another Spielberg film, Schindler's List, | earned $96 million and a slew of Oscars. Universal Studios Florida, the company's pricey rival to Walt Disney World, is virtually a Spielberg shrine, with major rides celebrating E.T., Back to the Future and Jaws. But without its main man, Universal is a crippled company. The rest of its movie trove is a dog named Beethoven and some other dogs named Dr. Giggles, Splitting Heirs and Havana...
Three of the biggest names in show business sent tremors rolling through the movie industry when they announced they were pooling their creative and financial resources in order to form their own studio. The trio: Jeffrey Katzenberg, the recently spurned Walt Disney Co. executive who is widely credited with revitalizing that studio's animation division; Steven Spielberg, history's most successful director; and David Geffen, the record-industry mogul. The new firm was rumored to be interested in helping a management-led buyout of an existing competitor -- most likely MCA's Universal -- in order to get a quick start...