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...CANT IMAGINE anyone trying to deny folks in their home the right to tape off a common carrier," said Ed Asner, head of the Screen Actors Guild But Walt Disney Studios and Universal City Studios could imagine all that and more. When Sony corporation first introduced video cassette recorders (VCR's), the same people who brought you Peter Pan and Donald Duck and his alleged "nephews" hauled Sony, four Betamax retailers, an advertising agency, and an individual Betamax owner into court for copyright infringement...
...numbers are definitely on our side, " brags Walt Witich, a Democratic Party political operative...
...effective defenders (see box), and has inspired a spirited game on Wall Street: guessing which firms might be next. One frequently named takeover candidate is RCA (1983 revenues: $8.98 billion), whose sickly profits have not been helped by the dreary ratings of its NBC television network. Others include Walt Disney Productions, whose movie business has been floundering, and United Cable Television, a Denver-based cable-TV operator with 615,000 subscribers in 18 states. Says Michael Franson, an analyst for Boettcher & Co., a Denver securities firm: "If you broke up United into pieces and sold them all separately, they would...
...financial profit, the marketability of a brand name showing on a ski propped over an Olympic champion's heart is obvious. And an ice show hardly knows what to call a star if she has won nothing more than a silver medal. Fratianne, who performs for Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom on Ice, says, "It's kind of the difference between being rich and really rich. Maybe it cost me some money, but all I can say is, now I can live happily ever after...
Right Stuff, Actor-Playwright Sam Shepard, 41, said little and stole much of the show, and he is now mightily sought after by Hollywood. But for no strange reason, the film he has currently chosen to do, Country, is a Walt Disney movie that also stars (and is co-produced by) Actress Jessica Lange, his offscreen live-in companion. In what has been described as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, Shepard and Lange, who teamed up in Frances last year, this time play a struggling Midwestern couple who are losing their farm. They have just finished shooting...