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...plays a comic sent abroad by the U.S. State Department to discover what makes Muslims laugh. Sony Pictures Entertainment passed on distributing the comedy, fearing the title was insensitive, and Brooks fans are debating its offensiveness online. Brooks is keeping mum about the film, due out next year from Warner Independent Pictures. What's Arabic for "focus group...
Generosity ebbs and flows, but in the wake of Katrina it burst forth at levels not seen since the Asian tsunami. Americans opened their wallets and corporations their coffers, sending water, blankets, cookies and toilet paper. Many companies are offering grants to encourage giving. Time Warner, for example, will match up to $1 million in employee contributions to the American Red Cross...
...longtime foe, as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes." News Corp. hired an American adviser last year to help China's state-run TV station spruce up the propaganda on its English channel, which is carried on News Corp.'s DirecTV (as well as Time Warner cable systems...
...networks in China last year, only 6% of which went to foreign firms, according to Vivek Couto, a Hong Kong--based media consultant. But government restrictions limit some News Corp. channels to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, luxury hotels, top government offices and approved apartment buildings. (Time Warner, owner of TIME, sold its controlling stake in a channel that also broadcast to Guangzhou in 2003.) Meanwhile, Beijing has left Disney in the cold by refusing to approve any more foreign satellite channels for even limited distribution. The government now requires pre-air approval for all foreign shows. Viacom last...
PICTURE AND VIDEO Now that still and moving images are increasingly digitized, they too can be searched with a click. Singingfish, acquired by America Online (which is owned by Time Warner, TIME's parent company) two years ago, can search AOL's video library of 15,000 titles, plus millions more over the Web, by looking for their titles and other attached identifying text, known as their metadata...