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Thursday, April 23, 1998
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Gill finds a role in swadeshi starrer; will take on Murdoch
The swadeshi politician may not have a problem with appearing on Rupert Murdoch's Star News Channel, but Prasar Bharati CEO S S Gill has decided to take the media baron head-on. With a budget provided by Doordarshan, he has asked self-confessed Murdoch-baiter Ramesh Sharma to do a two-part programme on the Australian-American's "attempts to control our minds".
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DTPH bonds Indo-US ties
The crowds may be thinning out even as Yash Chopra's Dil To Paagal Hain stretches into its Silver Jubilee week. But on Thursday evening, the film had some surprise visitors. Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, Karl Frederick Inderfurth, took time off his busy schedule to stop by Liberty theatre to check out just what a fluffy Bollywood love story was all about.
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Music channel war hots up
The war of the music channels has finally started hurting below the belt. Channel [V] is enraged at what it says is a `cheap gimmick' by arch-rival MTV to take the fun out of a party hosted jointly by [V] and music company BMG-Crescendo. The party, held on Wednesday evening at the nj-Jazz By the Bay at Marine Drive, was to launch Dooba Dooba, the video of new band Silk Route.
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Little man Annan woos Hollywood, for a change
Looking to shed some glamour on the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan went to Hollywood on Tuesday to recruit celebrities to champion for his organisation's missions. "I know that when an artist speaks up to safeguard the environment or to crusade for civil rights or to fight the scourge of drugs ... the world sits up and listens," Annan said.
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