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After fumbling N.F.L. football, CBS was in no mood to lose any more sports action to upstart Fox. So, at the end of negotiations for broadcast rights to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, CBS came up a winner -- at a price. Grabbing the games helped the network prop up its slipping sports franchise. But after paying $375 million, a Winter Games record, CBS will do well to break even...
...last Monday's earthquake. His Anything ordeal is over. His new cartoon series The Critic -- created by Simpsons swamis Al Jean and Mike Reiss -- premieres on ABC this week, preceded by reviewers' raves. The show, with its post-Woody Allenish wit and deft movie parodies, looks like a winner...
...Collins, the impresario, picks mostly Olympic and national medalists, along with some other favorites, and he treats them well: good hotels, flights rather than bus hops for distances of more than 200 miles and, best of all, good money. The pay varies - reportedly $5,000 for an Olympic bronze winner, ascending to $15,000 a gig for a gold medalist. Kerrigan has signed for the upcoming hit parade, as have Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Davis, Baiul and Bonaly...
...weeks ago, Viacom announced an $8.4 billion merger with home-video retailer Blockbuster Entertainment. That deal enabled Viacom to sweeten the cash portion of its bid for Paramount but left little in the way of a role for Davis. With the bidding war now in its final phase -- a winner is expected to emerge in early February -- Davis met last week with TIME Boston bureau chief Sam Allis and business editor Sam Gwynne for the Paramount chairman's first major interview since fall...
...year later, Oksana had to sever another tie. As the Ukrainian economy worsened, the coach found it hard to support his family. He jumped at a job offer in Canada, but before leaving, he bequeathed Oksana to his colleague, Galina Zmievskaya. She had already trained 1992 Olympic gold-medal winner Viktor Petrenko. She took in Oksana as a third daughter...