But KEVIN COSTNER flew to New York from California for a Monday-night taping of the cable series "Inside the Actors Studio," on which the questioner is JAMES LIPTON, the dean of the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University.
If negotiations work out, one of the world premiere performances will be taped for cable television.
More than half a century ago, he discovered the force of broadcasting could bend the steel of the world into a better, fairer place — for anyone willing to crawl under a desk, stretch a roll of electrician's tape or hang a length of cable.
A lawsuit brought last fall against the Screen Actors Guild by actor Ken Osmond, a member of the guild who played Eddie Haskell on "Leave it to Beaver" in the 1950s, has revealed the existence of a secret 2002 agreement between the studios and the guild, granting the major studios half of the money collected abroad on behalf of actors from the sale of DVDs, blank VHS tapes and cable transmissions.
Afterwards, he'd carry it all home alone – two speakers, two magnetic tape recorders and a backpack filled with a stack of tapes, records, cables, a microphone and a mixer.
With consumers struggling to make sense of hundreds of cable channels, plus video on-demand and shows taped on their DVRs, "this is a great time for [Rovi] to be offering this platform," says Diffusion Group analyst Colin Dixon.
A happy discovery, for me, is a tape of "TV Party," a cable-access show hosted by Glenn O'Brien, whose mix of stoned talk and often terrific guest performances by musicians and oddball buskers fitfully evinces a Talking Heads-like perfect pitch in deriding pop culture and eating it, too.
She went to work for 3M, the maker of Scotch tape, fiber optic cable and thousands of other products, and on the day of her job interview met the man who would become her husband.
