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...jury-rigged deals to launch expensive, redundant cable-TV channels. What else is one to make of the panic and quien-es-mas-macho giddiness variously gripping all of television's big boys right now? It's just the latest chapter in the ongoing struggle between the broadcasters -- NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, their hundreds of affiliate stations -- and the cable-TV operators, but this time the frenzy is particularly intense and farcical, the ironies especially rich, the broadcasters wussier and the cable industry more bullying than usual...
...talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz, which details the life of Rivers and two of her sons, Pharoah and Lafayette. The real Pharoah, now 15, is in the studio...
During a break, Winfrey, dressed in the shabby blue housecoat of her character, also talks about casting. "Originally ABC wanted Diana Ross ((as Rivers)) ... Diana said she didn't want to do it because it didn't offer enough hope. I felt the book was reality," says Winfrey. "There's always hope. I didn't grow up in the projects, but I am the perfect example of someone who came up from zip, I mean zippola, Mrs. Outhouse herself here." Despite this commitment to unvarnished truth, Winfrey abruptly postponed publication of her own memoirs because they were not inspirational enough...
Officials are uncertain whether Sudan is mainly playing host to foreign terrorists or actively exporting its own operatives and agitators. In the U.S. prosecutors are investigating the role Sudanese diplomats -- officially or on their own -- might have played in the U.N. plot. ABC News reported that employees of the Sudanese mission to the U.N. had been taped discussing the thwarted bombing, but U.S. investigators have yet to confirm any solid link suggesting that the Khartoum government sanctioned the conspiracy. The State Department's 1992 report "Patterns of Global Terrorism," published last April, concedes that "there is no evidence that...
...ABC will start filming its version of the Baby Jessica story this week in cooperation with her custodial parents, Jan and Roberta DeBoer, but without consulting her biological mother and father, Dan and Cara Schmidt. The Schmidts, who won custody, have thus far turned down all offers for their story. They say, however, that they may make a public response to the ABC broadcast...