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...more equitably. With an ownership stake in shows they air and the change in fin-syn rules, the networks for the first time can share in the money that a show generates in its afterlife. The producers, in the meantime, get the networks to take on more of the up-front costs. In a landmark deal last fall, ABC entered into a joint venture to create a new TV studio with Hollywood moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. ABC has a 50% stake in the company and, in an unprecedented move, has agreed to share directly with...
...Syria is not our only uncollateralized "investment in peace." Nor is it the most egregious example of up-front payment to a terrorist state in return for promises or promises of promises. The nuclear deal just concluded with North Korea earns that prize...
Here the up-front American blandishments are staggering. North Korea gets: 1) a free supply of oil, 500,000 metric tons a year, for the next eight to 10 years; 2) construction of two shiny new nuclear reactors worth $4 billion, also free; 3) diplomatic ties with the U.S., which will immediately lead to 4) diplomatic ties with Japan, from which will flow 5) aid and trade and whatever else the North Korean regime needs to keep going -- and keep threatening South Korea...
...While the move might seem like a cosmetic bait-and-switch to divert Hillary Clinton's critics, TIME health care writerJanice Castrosays it's a major shift. The next bill, she says, will try to control rising health-care costs, rather than expand coverage for all, and include an up-front funding plan. "Giving Robert Rubin a larger role means the Administration wants to be very pragmatic and figure out how to pay for what it wants to include," Castro says. "If they don't, they're not going to get it through Congress." BTW: Castro says the new bill...
...people out of 3,000 to be awarded a substantial grant to fund her first feature-length documentary film. "She Lives To Ride" (see review) opened one week ago at the Coolidge Corner theater. Stone half-seriously calls the PBS grant "one-stop shopping"--it provided her enough money, up-front, to make her first major film...