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Last week, during a fireworks display in Detroit, an amateur photographer videotaped a gang of young black women beating two older white women while police stood by. After the tape aired on national television, six attackers were arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and assault. And in Fort Worth a woman standing in a friend's yard recorded a police officer beating a handcuffed car-theft suspect 28 times with his baton. The officer is under criminal investigation, and the suspect is free on bail...
...treating panic attacks. Former Houston Oiler Earl Campbell appeared in the segment and poignantly described his battle with the psychiatric disorder. A useful little news spot? Actually, it was more of a commercial. Upjohn, which manufactures Xanax, produced the video segment, paid Campbell for his performance and sent the tape ready-made to TV stations around the U.S. as part of a campaign to peddle its product...
...long ago, the production of unauthorized records was a marginal activity that musicians tolerated and even encouraged as a form of tribute by their fans. But the bootlegging of albums has now become a full-blown, underground industry with millions of dollars in profits and royalties at stake. Tape cassettes remain the bootleggers' format of choice, since the duplicating equipment is relatively cheap, but digital compact discs are gaining ground. "CD is the pirate medium of the future," says Mark Kingston, spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry...
...kids brought up on frenetic Saturday-morning animation, these half-hour videos are leisurely paced and look comparatively low-tech. Visually, they are little more than still pictures strung together in a technique known, rather generously, as dissolve animation. Sales have been moderate (cost: $9.95 or $14.95 a tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also...
...children's films in the early '80s. In 1985 he and his partner (and now wife) Doris Wilhousky produced a TV version of one of their favorite children's stories, The Velveteen Rabbit. They managed to persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown from four to 18, straining the capacity of the two-story barn-wood building in Westport, Conn., that serves as a homey headquarters...