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...these axioms have suddenly vanished in a puff of Road Runner smoke. Hollywood is in the midst of an animation boom. Bochco's series, five years after he suggested it, is being developed by ABC for 1991. At least three other animated shows are in the works for prime time, each hoping to duplicate the success of the Fox network's surprise hit The Simpsons. In theaters, the big box-office numbers rolled up by such films as The Little Mermaid and Who Framed Roger Rabbit have inspired a burst of activity. This summer has already seen a movie version...
Thus her Dictionary of Received Ideas seems to have tapped a main vein. Holzer is the modern version -- rewired, subsidized, eagerly collected, but still recognizable -- of those American maidens who, a century ago, passed their hours stitching improving texts on samplers: THOU GOD SEEST ME, ABC, XYZ. The main differences are that instead of using biblical texts, Holzer writes her own, and that instead of using needle and thread, she inscribes them in LEDs and marble. Once Old Nick made work for idle hands; today the art market does...
...Today show, Roger Ailes, the Republican * mudmeister, casually claimed that young Cuomo might soon have a Neil Bush sort of problem with S&L investigators. That prompted a phone call from Andrew and a private apology for what Ailes conceded was a cheap shot. Then on ABC's Nightline last week, Republican strategist Ed Rollins said, "Mario Cuomo's son was involved" in the spreading S&L disaster. In fact, there is little basis, other than pure politics, for this accusation. Andrew's only connection is that he served as an attorney for a group of shareholders trying to take...
...ABC, June 28, 3 p.m. EDT). Another chapter in that never ending soap opera: Will Susan (eleventh-nomination) Lucci finally win an award...
Ratings for Dan Rather, who has held the solo spot at CBS since March 1981, have dropped 55% from their peak. Brokaw is down 44% from his high point. And while Peter Jennings, the regular ABC anchor since 1983, has helped lift his network into the lead, the gains by ABC World News Tonight do not fully offset the losses at the rival networks. Something new is needed to bring the lost viewers back. To judge from the past eight months of surging public affection for her, Jane Pauley just may have...