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Childs' collaborator in much of the writing and production of the album was David Ricketts, who with David Baerwald created one of the seminal albums of the '80s, 1986's Boomtown. Ricketts and Childs lived together and worked together, and Union has much to do with their affair. Childs signed with A&M records and moved in with Ricketts on the same day. She moved out 16 months later, with memories enough for an album and with a professional relationship that endures. "We couldn't live together," she says now. "We both push too many buttons in each other...
Eric Fischl has become the painter laureate of American anxiety in the '80s. From the moment he exhibited Sleepwalker, 1979, his image of a teenage boy resentfully masturbating in a suburban wading pool, Fischl has zeroed in with unblinking curiosity on the discontents of the White Tribe whose territory stretches from Scarsdale to Anaheim: unreachable kids, grotesque parents, small convulsions of voyeurism and barely concealed incestuous longing...
Want to follow the ups and downs of cable television? Just watch Ted Turner, Atlanta's brash cable mogul and America's most entertaining businessman. In the go-go years of the 1970s and early '80s, Turner was the cable industry's chief cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month...
Indeed, Congress and federal regulators are already taking some hard looks at cable's newfound muscle. During the 1970s and early '80s, a number of regulatory benefits were given to cable in an effort to encourage the fledgling industry. Now competitors complain that cable enjoys several unfair advantages in the marketplace. One of them was removed last week, when the Federal Communications Commission voted to reimpose the so-called syndicated exclusivity rules. Broadcasters have long argued that local stations that buy exclusive rights to syndicated programming are being hurt by cable channels airing the same shows (typically, reruns...
...year, Helms blocked the nomination of Richard N. Viets, a career foreign-service officer and former envoy to Jordan, as Ambassador to Portugal. Helms kept up questions about his personal finances until the nomination was withdrawn and Viets retired. "What we have here is a McCarthy of the '80s," says Viets. "You recognize you're in a cage with a viper." Helms bristles at the comparison with Joe McCarthy. "I think he was on to something," says he, "but he was careless with the facts...