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Another student appealed to Brown University with a "Wizard of Oz" parody, ending Dorothy's search with the discovery, "There's no place like Brown.... There's no place like Brown...
...problem is the MGM/UA acquisition from wily Owner Kirk Kerkorian. Analysts estimate that Turner overpaid as much as several hundred million dollars for the moviemaking studio and its assets, especially a rich library of some 3,600 films that includes such gems as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. In the process the Atlanta tycoon had to raise nearly $1.2 billion, mostly by issuing high- interest junk bonds, thereby pushing TBS's total debt to nearly $2 billion. He now faces a $600 million repayment that comes due Sept. 15. Will Turner be able to keep...
...Friday evening, and television viewers all over France are rushing to finish up the dinner dishes. It is almost time for Ambition, a popular new program starring Financial Wizard Bernard Tapie, 44. Sporting a dark blue suit and his trademark red tie, the lively Parisian preaches hard work and street smarts as the roots of success. "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship," he counsels his enthusiastic audience. "Dare to think...
Starting out was hard. He played the evil lead in a children's theater production of Rapunzel and the Wicked Wizard ("It's widely read in Europe," says droll Danny). He tried Los Angeles ("I couldn't get arrested . . . or an agent") and came back East. But for a while in New York City, there was no house to call home. "I had no money and needed a place to sleep, so I'd ride the Third Avenue bus up to the Bronx, cross the street and ride back down to the Battery. Thanks to the transit authority...
...Great Mouse Detective is aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head...