Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watched. There is still a generational lag. The people who one day will shell out the bucks to take their kids to see the future Boston Bullfrogs or Tampa Toads play soccer don't have kids yet. They're teenagers whose fathers played Little League baseball or Pop Warner football. Some of those parents are as clueless about soccer as they are about the Beastie Boys...
This time around, all the performers are demanding stiff fees. Wary of the huge financial commitment that was being asked for, Decca hesitated to commit itself, and the Warner Music Group jumped in. The new deal is estimated at nearly $1 million for each artist. That's the way to sing for your supper...
These network-owned channels have been guaranteed carriage in major markets; the fate of other cable newcomers has been much different. In April, Ted Turner launched Turner Classic Movies, which offers many vintage, long-unseen films from Turner's MGM and Warner Bros. archives. Cable systems serving only 250,000 homes were persuaded to sign up. Horizons Cable Network, a pbs-backed channel that plans to cover lectures, panel discussions and other educational and cultural events, had hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate...
While gays have faced uneven results in the political arena, especially at the national level, they have made great strides in the seemingly less inviting world of private business. Hundreds of companies, including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Harley-Davidson, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, 3M and Time Warner, have specific policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Many, ranging from the Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to the insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach...
...right. The band started modestly, putting out two albums on a tiny Berkeley record label (Lookout!), but now, on their major-label debut (Warner Bros./Reprise), their raw three-chord rock is finding a wider audience (Dookie has sold 600,000 copies). This summer Green Day is set to pull off a cross- generational coup -- the group will not only tour with the hip annual Lollapalooza music festival, it will also play the nostalgia-laden 25th anniversary of Woodstock. So rock's torch is passed on. Look for Green Day to light some fires...