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...week. In the nobody-knows-anything world of Wall Street, one analyst was predicting a 50% increase in AOL's stock price between now and next fall when the deal is expected to close, another was predicting a continuing slump, a third meaninglessly narrowed the medium-term price target to "between $55 and $90," and the last little analyst cried all the way home. "The Street has no historical reference," says one of the dealmakers...
Within a year expect major initiatives in broadband, where AOL visionaries see their eventual future, and in recorded music, an area that has been less gold mine than minefield for Time Warner in the past few years. "We can change the way people interact with music, change the distribution medium," says Jonathan Sacks, the senior vice president who supervises the main AOL service. Contemplate a music company that no longer has to bother manufacturing or shipping CDs, or sharing revenue with retailers--one that distributes its music directly from its hard drive to yours...
...begin the new century, it is essential that we remain vigilant about protecting our right to freedom of expression, regardless of the medium with which we are working. This latest rule scale-back is a good first step, but it remains just that: a first step. Let's hope that the tethers surrounding our access to encryption capabilities continue to loosen in the coming months...
...notorious scandals that followed so thoroughly rattled the fledgling medium of commercial television that 44 years would elapse before another summer upstart offering dazzling dollars in prime time would again galvanize the TV audience and spur a rash of imitations. The similarities between what is happening now and what happened during the '50s may not amount, in Yogi Berra's diagnosis, to a case of deja vu all over again, but those interested in looking ahead and guessing how the current quiz-show mania will play can find some suggestive clues by looking back...
...sketches each season. One of the writers, actor Michael Imperioli, not only is an accomplished screenwriter (Summer of Sam) but also plays a Soprano soldier who dreams of writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name DeCesare); Edie Falco, who won an Emmy as Tony's steely wife Carmela, says that...