Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, Vice President Dan Quayle is doing most of the heavy political lifting, arousing the G.O.P. faithful by labeling Perot a "temperamental tycoon" and attacking totems of the "cultural elite," from Murphy Brown to Time Warner and its rap recording artist Ice-T, as out of touch with family values. Bush likes to pretend he finds such negative tactics distasteful. When encouraged to comment on his sidekick's speeches, Bush is careful to distance himself with such lines as, "You better ask Mr. Quayle." But the Vice President isn't free-lancing; Bush campaign chairman Bob Teeter personally approved Quayle...
That one was "just -- Batman." Now Burton has made Batman Returns, opening Friday on more than 2,500 screens, and it looks as though Warner Bros., which produced the film, got its $55 million worth. It is a funny, gorgeous, midsummer night's Christmas story about. . . well, dating, actually. But hang on. This is the goods: "The Batman." Accept no prequels...
Last week more people were trying to shut him down. A group of law- enforcement officials in Texas called for a boycott of Time Warner, the parent company of his record label, Sire (and of TIME) because of one of his recent tracks, Cop Killer ("I'm 'bout to bust some shots off/ I'm 'bout to dust some cops off"). Said Doug Elder, president of the Houston Police Officers Association: "You mix this with the summer, the violence and a little drugs, and they are going to unleash a reign of terror on communities all across this country...
Gaines sold Mad in 1961 but stayed as publisher and paterfamilias through a succession of corporate overseers (including its current owner, Time Warner Inc.). Gaines, says editor Nick Meglin, who started at Mad in 1956, was "a very, very casual person -- which is a euphemism for being a slob. He became uncomfortable if people started to wear shirts and ties and pinstripe suits, because he figured they were looking to become corporate creeps, as he would call them." The money saved on wardrobe went to subsidize Gaines' various follies, including restaurant feasts, his collection of small-scale Statues of Liberty...
...almost complete face-lift, dumping several of its proven but aging hits (Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Golden Girls) and repopulating its schedule with shows aimed at the magic 18-49 age group. Among the new entries: Here and Now, with former Cosby kid Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a graduate student working at a neighborhood youth center; Rhythm and Blues, about a white disk jockey at a black radio station; and The Round Table, featuring young law-enforcement professionals in Washington. "At eight o'clock across the board, we have a | demographic renaissance," programming chief Warren Littlefield told...