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More than most industries, the movie business is dependent on the creative talents of a few top people. That is the basis for a feud that has broken out on the sprawling Burbank, Calif., studio lot that Columbia Pictures shares with Warner Bros. Friction between the neighbors began last month when Japan's Sony agreed to buy Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man, Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner...
...also trying to cash in on the trend: the Miami Herald has considered circulating its daily Spanish edition nationally; the Los Angeles Times plans to make its twice-monthly Spanish insert a weekly next year. Twenty-four dailies carry Vista, an English-language Sunday insert (partly owned by Time Warner) aimed at Hispanic readers...
...Harvard English professor Warner Berthoff dedicated a book on American literary criticism to "the good old causes: liberalism and democracy." An interesting choice of words, for none have fought for liberalism more staunchly than America's universities...
Oprah and Geraldo should brace themselves. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is starting his own TV talk show. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that...
DANNY ELFMAN: BATMAN MOTION PICTURE SCORE (Warner Bros.); PRINCE: BATMAN MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (Warner Bros.). Two Batman albums? If this seems like Cowled Crusader overkill, be advised that these records bear absolutely no resemblance to each other: Prince's Batman is a phantasmagorical reinterpretation of the movie; Elfman's score is the film's actual symphonic underpinning...