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...discuss "corporate responsibility." You are thinking, "I need this? Wall Street is screaming for me to slash jobs and increase the stock price; competitors are breathing down my neck; and tort lawyers are cruising the open oceans of commerce like so many U-boats, hoping to catch my logo in their periscopes. And the President wants to discuss responsibility...
...Universal-International's 1955 space opera about American scientists kidnapped to a distant planet, where they are attacked by macrocephalous monsters. The MST3K prologue is a bit ragged, but once This Island Earth kicks in, so does the Brains' mother wit. It finds the absurd everywhere, from the studio logo ("Doesn't the fact that it's Universal make it International?") to the ethereal, annoying ringing sound that accompanies the aliens ("Now we know what the world sounds like to Pete Townshend...
Windows 95 users are in luck, though, since Microsoft requires that all programs bearing the "Designed for Windows 95" logo come with a built-in uninstaller program to remove themselves completely from your hard disk...
...COFFEE IS BREWED, AND parishioners gather in the meeting hall of the Epworth United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. On the wall a hand-scrawled poster exhorts: CASINO LOBBYISTS TAKE A HIKE! The tables are strewn with literature on gambling addiction. The T shirts on sale sport the logo NO CASINO and a fiercely clawed Maryland blue crab. As for the evening's featured speaker, "We call him Riverboat Rambo," says Barbara Knickelbein, a grandmotherly church activist, with a mixture of affection and reverence...
...Polaroid has gone so far as to buy ads within ads, sponsoring the networks' own promotional trailers. Recent spots for upcoming shows--from Fox's Melrose Place to this Thursday's entire NBC lineup--begin and end with the new Polaroid slogan, "See what develops," and the company's logo. Meanwhile, some of the world's largest advertisers are simply starting up their own sitcoms. In a partnership with Paramount TV, Procter & Gamble is now airing Home Court on NBC and, on CBS, Almost Perfect and Good Company. The latter show is set at an ad agency where copywriters spent...