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DALLAS: America?s family entertainer defines family a tad too broadly, according to the 15-million member Southern Baptist Convention, which has decided to boycott Disney for its "gay friendly policies." Disney's worst offense? The decision to bring Ellen Degeneres' character out of the closet on the sitcom "Ellen," produced by Walt Disney Television and shown on Disney subsidiary ABC. Mouse Central is keeping mum. Last year, the Convention issued a warning to Disney about the evils of "Gay Days" at company theme parks and same-sex partner health benefits. Disney survived. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern...
...audiotapes and videotapes, weekend seminars, a CD-ROM, Mars and Venus vacations and a one-man show that began with a Broadway appearance last February and will continue at arenas across the country this summer. Gray also has a movie deal with 20th Century Fox and a planned sitcom. His new CD features a Mars and Venus song co-written by that Renaissance man Gray himself and performed as a sort of call and response by his-and-her vocalists. (Sample lyrics: Her: "Every time I try to tell you something, you get mad and run off to your cave...
Double albums in hip-hop tend to be as unnecessarily tedious as two-part sitcom episodes and director's-cut home videos. Even the late rap superstars Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. released disappointing double CDs that were heavy on gangsta attitude and light on well-crafted songs. Last week the hard-core rap group Wu-Tang Clan came out with theirs, Wu-Tang Forever (Loud/RCA). Given the fact that the group's last album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) had been lauded in hip-hop circles for its labyrinthine lyrics and creatively jagged production...
...cause. They describe Tarses as both insecure and out of her depth, driving underlings hard and treating former friends and colleagues shabbily. She raised eyebrows by ordering two pilots co-produced by her boyfriend, former Letterman executive producer Robert Morton, and giving one of them, Over the Top (a sitcom starring Tim Curry), a choice Tuesday-night time period. Worse, from the standpoint of Hollywood's dealmakers, she is perceived as having been stripped of real power by her bosses, Iger and Disney chairman Michael Eisner...
...room," Tarses says, while insisting that "there was truly not a tremendous amount of disagreement." Sources describe at least one instance, however, in which Eisner overruled her. When Tarses' final schedule board was presented to him, Eisner reportedly noticed one prominent show missing--the newly outed sitcom Ellen. The omission, he said in front of several executives, was "inconceivable to me," and the show was put back on the schedule. (Tarses says the show was left off an early version of the schedule only because Ellen DeGeneres had said she didn't want to continue the series. "I love...