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...worth? To establish a price range, analysts tot up the cash flow produced by each of the company's lines of businesses and divide the result by Paramount's 118 million outstanding shares. The major holdings include Paramount Pictures (Wayne's World 2, Addams Family Values), the company's Simon & Schuster (now Paramount Publishing) book-publishing arm and Madison Square Garden. Running those numbers, Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., has put the value of Paramount as low as $60 a share. (The stock closed at 81 1/8 last week after the Delaware court ruling...
...with his team playing a two-game set at Minnesota-Duluth this weekend, he has a right to feel a little excited. It's the Crimson's first trip to the Land of 10,000 Lakes since 1989, and the first time during the Tomassoni era--a little of Simon and Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound", if you please...
ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; paper; $30). These pictures from Rolling Stone pose the question why, after years of star-gazing, we still find these faces affecting. Perhaps we needed time's wear and tear to catch up with the overnight ravages shown in the portraits selected for this celebrity retrospective. Janis Joplin is slumped on a torn couch clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort; a slumbering Keith Richards slides off a folding chair. Others superstars appear to take fame in stride: a youthful Arnold Schwarzenegger mugs like a film noir actor...
Clinton rejected the Big Brother approach of Simon and Reno, one not made constitutional by the mere fact of its popularity. Hollywood probably will not heed the president's plea, but the nation should take notice of his emphasis...
...such, Clinton's words constitute both a valuable defense of free speech and a powerful reminder that speech is a freedom that should be exercised responsibly. Had Clinton added his weight to the Reno-Simon censorship chorus, he would have contributed presidential momentum to a dangerous movement to curtail First Amendment freedoms instead of asking Americans to take responsibility for what they and their children view...