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Home Alone's bonanza sends filmmakers on a PG spree...
Roller hockey, as it's called, was already a growth industry. But the Kings' breathless playoff victories have made it a retail bonanza. In Pasadena, my hometown, sporting goods stores reported record sales of sticks, pads and blades. Many removed the baseball and basket-ball equipment from store windows and replaced it with hockey pucks and jerseys...
First will come the channel bonanza: a simple expansion of today's cable world in which more and more stations and networks will become available on your box. Yet even 500 points of light will not necessarily mean a sudden bounty of new home entertainment. "There isn't an inexhaustible supply of talent out there waiting to fill 500 channels," warns Howard Stringer, CBS Broadcast Group president. "The first thing that comes to mind is what Alvin Toffler called the Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets...
...orders day and night; the big book, after all, was born when customers had no telephones. And such updated procedures, for all their added charms to the busy users, robbed the catalog of a certain gravitas. At its bulky, clunky, inconvenient best, the big book was both a commercial bonanza for its parent company and a moral force in American life. It discouraged impulse buying and promoted the educational benefits of travel...
...have escaped to the 20th century. They join such other hours as Highlander (the adventures of a centuries-old Scottish "immortal"), Renegade (Lorenzo Lamas as a motorcycle-riding ex-cop) and Street Justice (a sort of inner-city A Team). On the drawing boards for next fall: an updated Bonanza and Acapulco H.E.A.T., with Catherine Oxenberg as head of an antiterrorist squad...