01.10.00 – ArtsJournal Wayback

TIME WARNER, AOL TO MERGE

Boards of both companies unanimously approve deal announced today. – Variety 01/10/00

Deal creates new $350 billion company – Wired 01/10/00
More business details – and here it’s $250 billion. – DowJones.com 01/10/00
OPEN ACCESS? AOL was a leader in the fight to force cable companies to permit open access for internet providers to cable systems. But now AOL will be a cable system activists are howling. – Variety 01/11/00
- Saving a dinosaur? AOL to the rescue. – Washington Post 01/11/00
- Hollywood reaction: Big sigh – “It changes the landscape of all our businesses.” – Washington Post 01/11/00

Voter says gifts don’t do much (if anything) to win favor from press voters for the Golden Globes. “Maybe not, but Sharon Stone went too far this year when two couriers arrived at Golden Globe voters’ doors, one bearing a cellular telephone with a month’s free calls, along with a card signed by Stone and her Simpatico co-stars Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges, and the other a watch that sells for $395.” – The Telegraph (UK) 01/10/00

EXTRA PAY

A group of Toronto’s movie extras vote to join media union, spurning the actors union in dispute over their low pay. – The Globe and Mail (Canada) 01/10/00

WE AREN’T THE WORLD

We survived Y2K but attempts New Year’s Eve to portray the planet as just one Big Happy Family leave one critic cold. “It was the One City Many Cultures theme taken to a new high. Forget germ warfare, forget the millions of missiles poised to strike.” Tough to do. – Daily Mail and Guardian (South Africa)

NON-BLACK MINORITY GROUPS —

— feel left out of NBC’s pact with the NAACP last week on diversity. – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Just what, exactly is the role of a Bohemian? And do we still have any left in America? – Slate

REBIRTH OF A CITY

Hard to remember a decade or so ago when Manhattan was in distress – jobs fleeing, apartments going un-rented (really???), industry moving out… Today the Big Apple has transformed itself, added 80,000 new jobs last year and remade itself in the Information Age. – New York Observer

BETTER AND BETTER

Cleveland’s Severance Hall has long had a reputation for good acoustics. So after an extensive $37 million renovation, it was with some trepidation listeners approached. No need to worry though – what was good has been made even better. – New York Times

Heaping praise. – Cleveland Plain Dealer 01/10/00

YES, YES, YES

Redo of Covent Garden hits all the right notes for an American critic. – San Francisco Examiner

“SENSATION” CLOSES —

— at the Brooklyn Museum much as it opened – big crowds, protests outside. – New York Times

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