Word: warners
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...people outside politics who might be presidential. The exercise yielded a national total of only 21 names. Among them: two former astronauts, Frank Borman, president of Eastern Airlines, and Neil Armstrong, oil-equipment executive; Chairman Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic Richfield; Lee lacocca of Chrysler; James Bere of Borg-Warner; Thomas Wyman of CBS; President Hanna Gray, University of Chicago; Marvin Goldberger, Caltech; Bartlett Giamatti of Yale; and, inevitably, Walter Cronkite...
...things were going well for him. Before the opening of Picnic, he had been promoted to a supporting role and had got excellent notices. He was studying with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan at the prestigious Actors Studio (with, among others, Geraldine Page, Rod Steiger and James Dean). Then Warner Bros, offered him a long-term movie contract starting at $1,000 a week. Abruptly he found himself wearing what he called a "cocktail gown" and playing a Greek slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used...
...with fighting a bigger war, for a potentially bigger market: television." In the past two weeks, all six major studios were moving in on pay cable: Columbia, MGM/UA and 20th Century-Fox are reportedly dealing to buy into Showtime, the second largest pay cable network; and Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. announced an agreement to purchase the Movie Channel, the third largest. The immediate effect is likely to be an increase in the cable licensing fees of popular movies, especially to Home Box Office, the giant of pay TV. The ultimate goal may be to re-establish the studios...
...roll have always been contrary siblings. One soothes, the other threatens. One offers visual Pablum, the other musical grits. Even in the packaged and homogenized forms developed by such entrepreneurs as Dick Clark and Don Kirshner, TV has rarely accommodated its more rambunctious relative. Until now, that is. Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co.'s MTV (Music Television) is uniting the rival brethren in amplified harmony...
DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...