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...essential to almost any foreign venture or protect the policymaking bureaucracy from the budget hawks. Cohen is highly regarded on both sides of the aisle as a bridge builder who can meld judicious compromises on contentious issues. A sure sign of his appeal is the fact that Republican John Warner praises him for holding the line against cuts while Democrat Sam Nunn lauds him for his fiscal discipline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIX AND MATCH | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...will Sony and Warner see their record empires crumble? Not for a few more business cycles, at least. According to Jupiter Communications, online-music purchases probably won't exceed $25 million this year--about two-tenths of 1% of the U.S. industry's $12.3 billion total. Even if that number were to grow to 10% by 2000, as Jupiter predicts, most of the revenue is likely to end up in the pockets of the majors. Al Cafaro, president of A&M records, doesn't seem worried about losing Sting or Sheryl Crow anytime soon. "I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR SOUND | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...Some estimates place the overall movie tie-in business at $10 billion annually in retail sales worldwide. Entertainment executives make no bones about merchandising's importance. "It's something we all live with every day of our lives," says Richard Cook, chairman of Disney's motion picture group. Time Warner chairman, Gerald Levin, was perhaps excessively frank when he recently talked up Warner Bros.' big holiday release. "Space Jam isn't a movie," he averred, according to the New York Times. "It's a marketing event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 101 MOVIE TIE-INS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...assessment of a movie that drips with so many plugs for products that the characters joke about it in the script. The film, which links Michael Jordan with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes stable, has generated more than 200 spin-off items that Warner is hoping will eventually pull in $1 billion. That would be on top of the $3 billion already generated annually by Looney Tunes paraphernalia. But Space Jam is different from most movies in that it not only feels as if it were inspired by a TV commercial, it actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 101 MOVIE TIE-INS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...have not spent years in Pop Warner, AYSO or even played Little League since I was 14. I try to make up in energy and enthusiasm what I lack in skills, and to "play smart," because this is Harvard, right? IMs provide the perfect does of sports for a weekend warrior like me. We count the good players on the other teams by who has cleats and shin guards, and we assign our own cleated players accordingly. Then I gingerly take my place along the line of scrimmage or behind the half mark and get ready to play...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Everyone Can Win in Intramurals | 11/26/1996 | See Source »

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