Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today westerns are back, guns blazing. The immediate impetus is a series of unexpected hits: CBS's high-rated 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on Larry McMurtry's novel; the popular frontier series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; and a pair of Oscar-winning films, Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. They have been more than enough to set off a modern Hollywood version of the Oklahoma land rush...
...slow but notable return, with shows such as Fox's The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Ken Burns (The Civil War) is overseeing a 10-hour documentary series on the Old West, due in 1996. Lonesome Dove, meanwhile, has spawned one TV sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove (airing on CBS over three nights next week), and the promise of a second, based on McMurtry's own (and very different) follow-up, Streets of Laredo, published last summer...
Senator Earnest Hollings railed against an episode of CBS' "Love and War" which featured a violent fight scene; he didn't realize that the show was intended as a job at Congressional concern with TV violence. The Senators seem hopelessly befuddled by the idiom of the medium that they yearn to regulate...
...twice, in fact, first as a jogging candidate, and then in full presidential mode. "If you want to run into me or ICM's Jim Wiatt or Jeff Katzenberg or Arnold Schwarzenegger," says producer Steve Tisch (Risky Business, Bad Influence), who sometimes brings his uncle, not exactly funky CBS proprietor Laurence Tisch, "it's a good guess one or all of us will be there any Saturday or Sunday morning...
Compare this with the scant $11 million in concessions that it took to keep CBS from moving across the river. CBS has over 4,000 highly paid employees; it pays full rent and taxes on its facilities. Can the Yankees boast the same...