Table of Contents
Week of 10/28/1992

Articles

Jackson Weaver

 

Dorothy Helen Baker

 

William F. Chafin

 

Pearl Smiley

 

Antoinette Molinari

 

Robert Catic

 

Maggie Comer Robinson

 

Michael Grant

 

Gloria Buckles

 

William Masselos

 

Charles Lee

 

Satisfied AMPAS quits Oscar-tix scalper suit

 

FCC imposes Stern fine

 

Col, Zucker may journey into 'Knight'

 

Front gives back film credit

 

CBS handily wins week, but Nielsens way down

 

Viacom adds benefits for gay partners

 

BVTV's 'Blossom,' 'Dinosaurs' on sale

 

Another Oscar to auction

 

CLARIFICATION

 

ATAS names committee chairmen

 

KCBS, WGAW cross swords

 

Hanna-Barbera cuts 10 staffers

 

DiTolla, Asner to speak at union rally

 

Target of cabler gets equal time

 

Marcus may be in running to replace Viacom's Gillespie

 

Sony firms U.S. rights to 'Orlando'

 

Comcast may get muscle money

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Matsushita net falls 54%

 

Kodak profits up in 3rd qtr.

 

Landmark corners Denver art-house market

 

Whittle gets $ 150 mil in credit line

 

TWE registers $ 1.2 bil

 

Acad taps Bergman for Nicholl nod dinner

 

October to run Cinecom library

 

WB to handle France, U.K. for Cine Vox

 

Philips pitches CD-I at meeting

 

Devany, others voted to ITS offices

 

'Death' sets B.O. record in Taipei

 

Incovent cuts a path

 

Canadians vote down knotty referendum

 

Silesia poised to rule Poland's pic exhib biz

 

UN sanctions block Yugos' Mifed deals

 

Short Takes

 

Phillips moves to pic lit at MTA

 

Birth

 

What's new in TV? Read between the lines

 

'Untouchables' role captured by Amandes

 

World Series '92 makes classic fall in the ratings

 

Par TV ups Stambaugh, shifts exex

 

Tartikoff, Kushnick break bread

 

Napa duo uncork vintage sound stage plans

 

Diddley sues estate of manager

 

USA joins cable bill challenge

 

Goldcrest, Col Tristar ink pact

 

Canal Plus posts big gain in revs

 

Overseas Filmgroup unveils restructuring

 

'Chocolate' Mexico pick for Oscars

 

Swiss keeping Fiorini locked up till January

 

International Briefs

 

NAACP issues call to change

 

Financial Briefs

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Roos & Christy, ABC, ZDF ink for telepic

 

Set pulls punches in HBO conflict

 

Rally cry: 'No more union busting'

 

No cats allowed at Tweety's 50th

 

Producer teams to take stab at TV 'Pirates'

 

Cohen prez, CEO of ITC Europe arm

 

Short Takes

 

No. 1 'Star Trek' gives 'Wheel' a flat

 

CBS affils pull projections plug

 

Sound editors unveil officer slate

 

Hitched

 

Philips tubthumps CD-I to H'w'd

 

Who's Where

 

11th-hour Par powwow fuels buzz

 

'Dad' shipped off to cable

 

NL's 'Damage' NC-17; 9 pix R, four PG-13

 

Time-Life TV taps two for exec posts

 

'Patriot' B.O. at $ 54 mil o'seas

 

Ralph B. Serpe

 

Martin Gregg

 

New Sturges bio reveals man of contradictions

 

NUMBERS BOX

 

Births

 

Affils gain daytime hour when CBS drops 'Feud'

 

Ruscin exits as Fox sr. VP

 

Fox nixes NBC bid to carry 'Berry' talker

 

New Yorker opens L.A. bureau

 

Dalton gets his due

 

Birth

 

'Scud Stud' Kent drops $ 25 mil lawsuit on NBC

 

'Damage' appeals NC-17; 'Body' edited for R rating

 

Mercury to sponsor gay PSAs

 

'Elevator' thriller up for remake

 

'Beast' vid BVHV beauty

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Fox's Roth looking around amid contract uncertainty

 

S&P boosts Viacom Int'l debt ratings

 

Matthews wraps Star deal

 

Players Directory out

 

Miramax reels in 'Fish'

 

Perot buys 4 hours of air time on Nostalgia

 

CORRECTION

 

Genesis eyes projects

 

TriStar lands monster of deal with 'Godzilla'

 

L.A. critic upset by Lee's mandate

 

Rieffel feathers 'Empty Nest'

 

Short Takes

 

Morning shows soar; 'Today' tops 'GMA'

 

Self-evaluation: a first-person singular sensation

 

'RoboCop' targets theme park crowd

 

Turner toons up its marathon

 

Tisch to chair AIDS Project

 

Arbitron enlists more meter sites

 

KLSX-FM asks FCC to detail Stern complaints

 

Wall St. says ho-hum to Par news

 

Two theatricals top Full Moon's slate

 

Tartikoff ankling jolts Hollywood

 

Hanks headed to Fox in 2-yr. prod'n pact

 

Bush signs DAT measure into law

 

Indies shuffle sweeps skeds

 

Nalevansky leaves Par for 20th TV

 

NUMBERS BOX

 

Tartikoff regime projects

 

Mixed reviews and results for films of Tartikoff era

 

Exex shuffle

 

New 'Ren' seg set for Nick sked

 

August's 'Intentions' questioned by Acad

 

B.O. during Tartikoff tenure

 

Keynote curse strikes again

 

Joan Maloney Rio

 

Limbaugh goes legit for 'Follies' cameo

 

Kushner-Locke plans offering

 

NSB converts Ch. 7 into Ch. 11

 

TM buys Brown, textbook publisher

 

TCI offers debt issue

 

Rank addresses financial jitters

 

Bon Jovi has 'Faith' in its new album

 

October's B.O. gross hops 15%

 

'Seattle sound' melts down pop metal

 

'Star' strip to fizzle in January

 

B movies rate an A at Mifed

 

Plane crash kills MCA video prez

 

Parretti hits CL with $ 346 mil lawsuit

 

Fowler bolting Fox for ad shop

 

NUMBERS BOX

 

NBC gives Letterman bargaining go-ahead

 

Gerber departs MGM TV

 

Madatian and Dauber upped by 20th Fox

 

'Siege' scares up crowds at B.O.

 

Lee clarifies interview stand

 

Tartikoff sez he'll return to TV scene

 

Erwin Okun, Disney sr. veep, dies

 

Stern fans blamed for threats

 

Disney opens its first store in the inner city

 

'Simpsons' spec bags ratings

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Short Takes

 

'Laugh-In' spec set for Feb.

 

Homevid revenues and market share, 3rd qtr. '92

 

New U.S. feature film releases

 

Release tally off slightly through Oct.

 

Sell-through soaring

 

'Beast' roars in France

 

Eldred (Mike) McGreal

 

Tartikoff looks for cash, Weekend promo

 

Rental titles in the third quarter

 

'Stalin' opens curtain for Duvall

 

Weekend promo

 

USA tops among cable nets in Oct.

 

2 CITED AT CHANDLER AWARDS

 

Sony, Krebs ink pact for new label

 

Gray tops Goldwyns

 

Magic retires for good, cites 'controversies'

 

Blake to star in CBS' 'List'

 

NBA can't limit WGN's Bulls 'casts

 

Iger aims to revamp Saturdays

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Halloween B.O. haunted by 22% dip

 

Financial Briefs

 

Spelling hits in 3rd quarter

 

Reed Intl. posts 10% hike in pretax profits

 

Roth lands at Disney in all-stops-out deal

 

Roth's report card at Fox: Straight A's

 

Fox looks to fill lot's top spot

 

NBC eyes slot for Gibbons/Tesh talker

 

Hollywood legend Hal Roach, 100, dies

 

Tig teams with Majestic, RCS

 

Lifetime names 2 to senior VP posts

 

Bluth, Donovan bow TV prod'n unit

 

'The Lover' steamiest among exclusives

 

Everett Jacobs

 

Board ordered to refund $ 6 mil in taxes to Marvel

 

Short Takes

 

Bertelsmann revamps structure

 

Wall Street unshaken by departure of Roth

 

Two new imprints for Def American

 

H'w'd readies to congratulate Clinton

 

Reviews

The B-52's

Much Ado About Nothing

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

This Is Michael Bolton

The Women of Windsor

Usa World Premiere Movie Wild Card

Annie Warbucks

Mastergate

Cbs Sunday Movie Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

Mastergate

Nbc Movie of the Week Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride

Paul Mccartney: Get Back

Stand-Up Opera

Spic-O-Rama

T Bone N Weasel

Great Performances Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway

A&E Stage Top Girls

U2



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