Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned in kindergarten.com In the past few weeks, the Net has erupted in a cacophony of jeers, jabs and complaints as online services attacked one another like kids in a sandbox. HotWired, the electronic sister publication of Wired magazine, has been ceaselessly twitting other successful sites--such as Time Warner's Pathfinder and the computer guide c|net--for offenses real and imagined. Last week the whining became too much for Suck, a trendy online journal, which posted a spirited complaint about HotWired's "constant needling" and noted that rival bashing swapped places only with "back patting" on HotWired...
...nights, with Disney chairman Michael Eisner as the probable host. Six of the 29 pilots that ABC is considering for next season come from the Disney studio--a not uncommon bit of corporate synergy now that networks are allowed to own their own programs (and now that studios like Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox own their own networks), but one that has nevertheless raised fears among other Hollywood studios that they will eventually be shut out. ABC executives deny that they'll play favorites, saying they will pick the best shows regardless of supplier, since drawing the biggest possible...
...legal issues of the case with very little real drama. That missing ingredient, however, has been whipped up in generous gobs in both prosecutor Christopher Darden's In Contempt (ReganBooks; $26), written with Jess Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends on whose Rashomon-like tale...
...really comes out. Salman Rushdie is writing a feature-film screenplay based on a short story he wrote about an immigrant boy growing up in London in the '60s. (Gee, Sal, how'd you come up with that one?) The Courter will be produced by British film company Warner Sisters (yes, Sisters). So far, it hasn't offended anyone...
...business, running several of his family businesses and philanthropic enterprises and flying around the U.S. for meetings with top corporate officers. (He is also under investigation for possibly violating his parole in recent business dealings, including his consultations with the Turner Broadcasting System on its proposed merger with Time Warner...