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...block." If football can increase prime-time ratings by 1 point, "That could throw $50 million to the bottom line for a full season," says Pilson. For the stations, that can mean an additional $100 million a year. That's good enough even for a bottom-line zealot like Mel Karmazin, chairman of the CBS Station Group. Said he: "We know better than anybody else what it's like to have the NFL and what it's like not to have the NFL. And it sure as hell is a whole lot better to have...
...doomsaying pick of this week has to be The Year of Living Dangerously (1983). Mel Gibson watches Indonesian President Suharto's bloody rise to power; millions killed in military coup. Today, it's still Suharto, it's still a military dictatorship, and with the IMF reforms (and Suharto's reluctance to impose them) making everybody nervous, the generals are still crazy after all these years. Eeesh...
...Blazing' Addled (EW) ? Mel Brooks disavows his comedy classic "Blazing Saddles" as edited for Pat Robertson's Family Channel. But a couple of racy jokes slipped by the censors...
Universal looked for some sort of sweetener--like the promise of a partnership on an upcoming Cameron project. None was offered. In August 1996, Paramount president John Goldwyn called Fox to inquire if Paramount might step in. Paramount had teamed with Fox on Braveheart, Mel Gibson's epic, with the happiest of results: good box office, Oscars. Paramount's tough but charming chairman, Sherry Lansing, had concerns. Could a young star like DiCaprio carry a film this big? And the $100 million budget seemed low. But that Sunday afternoon, Fox executive Tom Rothman eloquently persuaded Lansing that Titanic would...
...Christmas spirit, the album does have its flaws. The ubiquitous Puff Daddy and his friends deliver an unengaging rap cover of "Santa Baby," which Madonna covered for A Very Special Christmas. The band everyone loves to hate, Hootie & the Blowfish, bring to the album a horrible cover of Mel Torme's standard "The Christmas Song (Chesnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)." Darius Rucker and guitarist Mark Bryan are totally out-of-sync and seem to be playing two different horribly Hootie songs. Former rock queen Patti Smith gives the album its most ominous track. The hauntingly gothic sound...