Word: warners
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...TIME WARNER'S BIG TURNOFF...
...have been the most expensive pizza-delivery system ever invented. Last week media giant Time Warner (TIME's parent company) announced that it was pulling the plug on its ambitious two-way cable-TV project, the Full Service Network, launched in Orlando, Fla., in 1994. At that time then ceo Gerald Levin predicted FSN would be "a medium for providing people with unprecedented access to information and entertainment." With just a remote, subscribers could scan countless TV channels, bring up movies on demand, shop at home or order a pizza...
...Time Warner invested at least $100 million wiring the 4,000 households in the project, according to industry analysts. The company says FSN will pave the way to bigger and better interactive products, but Levin noted, "I was off the mark, at least in the short run, about the medium...
...envy; it will surely spur the rebels at DreamWorks, under the command of former Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg, to draw bigger and faster on their animation slate. On TV, The Simpsons, now in its eighth superb season, begot Ren and Beavis, Duckman and King of the Hill. Disney and Warner stores sell upmarket T shirts and gewgaws based on new and classic cartoons...
...mania has now produced a spate of books--catnip for the nostalgia connoisseur and the mogul hoping to extend his franchise line and move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books...