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...Long-Haired Hare,? ?Yankee Doodle Daffy,? ?Duck Amuck,? ?Wabbit Twouble,? ?Fast and Furry-ous,? ?Feed the Kitty.? These titles of Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the 40s and 50s don?t sound like the names of enduring works of cinematic art. But they are, as surely as Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng were among the great comedy directors; as surely as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are two of the deftest farceurs to grace the movie medium. Now, on a four-disc DVD set, ?Looney Tunes Golden Collection,? the magnificent menagerie lives again, pristinely restored...
...DIED. RAY STARK, 88, prolific Hollywood producer who gave Barbra Streisand her breakthrough role in the stage musical and 1968 film Funny Girl; in Los Angeles. Stark, who started out in Hollywood writing captions for publicity photos at Warner Bros., made more than 125 films, including Night of the Iguana, The Way We Were, and 11 movies in close collaboration with playwright Neil Simon, among them The Sunshine Boys. Stark considered several actresses such as Mary Martin and Eydie Gorme before choosing the then unknown Streisand to play Funny Girl's Fanny Brice. Her performance in the film...
...night of Nov. 29, Warner Bros. transformed more than 500 American theaters into secure compounds for a sneak preview of The Last Samurai. The $140 million Tom Cruise vehicle, designed to transport the star from the screen to the Oscar podium, was filmed on location in New Zealand and Japan with a cast of 750. All the hype, along with the adolescent story line--samurai fight against the Japanese army!--guaranteed the film to be of interest to pirates. And in the age of faster Internet connections, protecting a movie has become like guarding very expensive air. So to prevent...
...studios will now go to hold back this threat. To tell the tale of how films get to black-market stores and shacks across every continent, from Beijing to New York City and to computer hard drives everywhere, TIME tracked the winding journey of The Last Samurai (full disclosure: Warner Bros. and TIME share the same parent company). And the trajectory confirms that movie executives are right to be alarmed. But it also shows that most of their protective acrobatics are, at best, just buying time. The harder it is to get a movie, the more pirates want...
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX To eliminate the cumbersome set-top boxes that are required to get HDTV or digital TV, TV manufacturers have partnered with cable companies. By this fall, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner) are scheduled to distribute industry-standardized "cable cards" to customers who buy new cable-card-ready TV sets from Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung and others. With the right card, you don't need...