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XXXXXXXXX DRUDGE REPORT FINAL XXXXX JUNE 15, 1995 XXXXXXX


HOUSTON, THE REST HAVE PROBLEMS

HOLLYWOOD (DR)-  Here is a way to make some quick money this weekend.  Place
a bet with anyone who does not believe that BATMAN FOREVER (BF) will open
this weekend with the highest box office take in the history of motion
pictures.  JURASSIC PARK , with $50.2 million,  is the current opening
weekend champ but not for much longer.  WARNERS executives must have been
popping open  that special champagne late Wednesday when the reviews for BF
starting coming in.  "Refreshingly Vibrant!"  "Carrey is a jaw-dropping
virtuoso on display!"  "A Monster Smash"  "Houston,  the rest have problems!"

The late word that WARNER BROTHERS is adding midnight shows on tonight
(Thursday,)  will only add to the take.

Sen. Bob Dole is even up on the BF flick. "My understanding is it's a good
movie," deadpanned Dole.

However, the victory was not easily won- WARNER BROTHERS called in all of
their chips for this one.  An editor of a national magazine told the DRUDGE
REPORT 'they almost twisted our neck to put Nicole Kidman on our cover!'  In
fact, over the past few months we watched in horror as the BF payola was
starting to be spread around town.  What was Kidman doing on the cover of
over  9 different magazines during the past few weeks?  Who is she?  The
last time we checked there was not a sole lined up in front of the Mann's
Chinese Theater here in Hollywoodland.  But Caltech is reporting a
land-shift that is carrying the masses towards the Boulevard.

All else this summer,  are seconds.



``JEW ME, SUE ME, EVERBODY DO ME"

HOLLYWOOD (DR)--  This is no stunt.  Michael Jackson is in very hot water.
At press time,  it was almost a human boil.  The new song  THEY DON'T CARE
ABOUT US,  from the new Jackson set HIStory,  is causing more than a mild
outrage from Jewish groups.  In the new song ``They Don't Care About Us,''
Jackson sings, ``Jew me, sue me, everybody do me/ Kick me, kike me, you can
never get me.''  Yes, you read that right.

The SONY CORP. must be must be in a literal panic over the red-hot scandal
developing from the lyrics.  It is to late for a recall.  Will heads will
roll over this one?

When asked Wednesday about the lyrics from  THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US
Jackson's manager,  Sandy Gallin, who is a new-age Jew himself,  said "When
I heard those lyrics, I thought they were brilliant.''

The Jewish groups we were speaking to today thought differently.

Hoping to stop the fire, Michael Jackson has run to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Jackson gave a statement to The New York Times on late Wednesday. It said:
``The idea that these lyrics could be deemed objectionable is extremely
hurtful to me, and misleading. The song in fact is about the pain of
prejudice and hate and is a way to draw attention to social and political
problems. I am the voice of the accused and the attacked. I am the voice of
everyone. I am the skinhead, I am the Jew, I am the black man, I am the
white man. I am not the one who was attacking. It is about the injustices to
young people and how the system can wrongfully accuse them. I am angry and
outraged that I could be so misinterpreted.''

*43 share in the overnights for ABC and MJ/Oprah can sleep easy, Sawyer's
interview numbers are great but not mega


THIS IS CNN

LOS ANGELES (DR)-  The DRUDGE REPORT has been briefed on the potential
windfall of revenue CNN is set to realize from the on-going coverage of the
OJ Simpson trial.  CNN is charging up to $24,000 per half-minute of
commercial time and could make more than $45 million on the trial, according
to one industry estimate.

Is this how Ted Turner wants to be remembered?  Making $45 million from an
American nightmare?  Apparently so.  A spokesman for CNN in Los Angeles
would not give us the time of day on the question of  profits stemming from
the airing of the trial.  Funny how the 'no comment' routine has become an
addiction with the mass-media when they are caught with their pants down.

The stockholders of TURNER are not the only pigs that are profiting from the
murders of Nicole and Ron.  Some money hungry type is selling ``I Killed
Nicole'' T-shirts for $12, along with pins and bumper stickers.  The shirts
are being sold all over Los Angeles and are a favorite with gang-bangers.

SO WHAT NOW FORREST?

HOLLYWOOD (DR)-  PARAMOUNT  is telling anyone who will listen all about GUMP
& COMPANY.  The blueprints for the sequel to FORREST GUMP have just been
delivered and boy are Lansing & Company excited.  GUMP & COMPANY,  which
continues the story that inspired the second-highest domestic box office
release in history, will be published in August by Pocket Books, a division
of Paramount-owned Simon & Schuster. This book details Gump's travels and
travails from 1980 to the present.   It is a tale of big Forrest, who is an
idiot, and  young Forrest, who is a genius, and how they get along together.
GUMP & COMPANY is also said to include the same type of picaresque scenes so
popular in the original.  Anywhere from the fall of the Berlin Wall to
Oliver North to the Exxon Valdez, Gump is there causing a lot of trouble.
Will Hanks do it?


DRUDGE WIRE

Singer Roger Clinton, President Clinton's brother, plays to a nearly empty
club in Los Angeles last weekend.  Friends, staff and the news media barely
dotted the room at the famed West Hollywood Troubador as the President's
brother sang "God Bless the Child"...FOX TV is preparing to challenge NBC's
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.  Look for FOX to go with MAD-TV, a spin-off from the
MAD MAGAZINE, on Saturday nights this fall... Over 40 homosexual visitors to
the White House, who included state senators and representatives, city
council members, judges and other elected officials, were met by members of
the uniformed division of the Secret Service, many of them wearing rubber
gloves.  The fear of AIDS prompted the Service to play it safe.  Clinton is
outraged...We hear billionaire David Geffen is still living by the motto
"FU*K THE ESTABLISHMENT."   The affirmation started back in the 'hungry
years' for Geffen- back when he was broke and a rebel of sorts in the music
business.  *Visitors to Geffen's famed Sunset strip offices were greeted
with a poster of a middle finger reading his motto*  But Geffen's anger at
the establishment would appear to no longer be valid.  This week, when
Geffen agreed to link-at-the-hip with MCA/UNIVERSAL, he became the
establishment.  How ironic...Is Connie Chung getting ready to sit in the
anchor chair at FOX's CURRENT AFFAIR?...Heatwave in Egypt with tempretures
of over 125 degrees...Salt Lake City, we have our fingers crossed for you.
The hope is that you indeed are awarded the rights to stage the 2002 WINTER
OLYMPICS.  The decision will be made at high noon on Friday...THE WASHINGTON
POST IS set to launch an online news service...As the X-FILES' WWW is
getting 10,000 hits an hour we are told.  If you can get in, the address is
http://www.delphi.com...



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