Table of Contents
Week of 01/29/1993

Articles

WB board put Ice-T out in cold

 

Ebersol: PPV football's future

 

Group sues to halt indecency rule

 

News Corp. bonds sell out

 

New Line up in heavy trading

 

Multimedia sees growth in income, revs for 1992

 

Prime Ticket mulls interactive plan

 

Triumph taps Cameron VP, branch admin

 

Siegel goes Uptown as VP, G.M.

 

ERAS Center to benefit from Archerd event

 

The way we were...the first year

 

Army Archerd: Diligent detective

 

Army Archerd: Five horrible words

 

Army Archerd: A 'whole' columnist

 

Army Archerd: The spice of Variety

 

Army Archerd: 40 Years as Hollywood's town crier

 

Joel gets NARM's top honor

 

'Clever Cleaver Bros.' look for home at NATPE

 

Sauter: Riot TV 'godawful'

 

Dutch vote to change pubcasters' structure

 

Canadian police seize pirated vids

 

Disney offers 'Aladdin' deals

 

DGA, AMPTP still far apart in talks

 

ABC orders 4 more 'Jackies'

 

Short Takes

 

CapCities/ABC sees jump in 4th-qtr.

 

Fox buys spec script 'Simon Says'

 

Pix with twists hot items

 

Prepare for 'Fire' to shock, Petersen sez

 

Clapton, lang, Cole at Grammys

 

N.Y. MPAA board dumps 'Justice's' L.A. NC-17 dub

 

PBS offers 'Reverse Angle' on docu series

 

Mountain comes to Par

 

CL asks court to fast-track MGM suits

 

Viewing zooms for ayem shows in Inaugural week

 

Concern org honors Segel

 

Victory Village among Archerd's favorite charities

 

Archerd to be honored with charity benefit

 

Good Morning ... from around the world

 

Archerd salute benefits cancer research

 

The Big Story

 

Syndie fever at MCA, Col

 

Darby has 'Contact' at Sundance

 

High cost, badges among few gripes as NATPE wraps

 

DuPont Batons passed to ABC, 'Nightline,' KTTV-LA

 

Graff dips into Euro TV

 

MIDEM bars 3 from confab

 

Music web set for Aug. bow

 

Judging of Int'l Emmys to be held around globe

 

Redford's 'Racer' lessons led to filmmaking successes

 

Kathryn Darling

 

Kay Swift

 

Jordan not crying over new offers

 

Tribeca loves 'Cupid' script

 

Arts on chopping block

 

Acad honors Oscar-winning women

 

Correction

 

Gramercy taps Ptacek, DDBN for ads

 

Financial Briefs

 

MCA ups Brown; King gets 'Happy'

 

NBC trying to net Wilder

 

Failure of debt swap forces Live bankruptcy

 

Mormons picket 'Fences'

 

Short Takes

 

Barry prez WIF board

 

Publicists Guild cheers Thomasons

 

Milestone buys rare Hitchcock movies

 

Hank Werba

 

Working publicists earn higher-than-scale pay

 

PKE preps Atlanta murder telepic

 

Showbiz a global village

 

May ready to ease into solo career

 

'Kung' nabs hot ratings

 

Sundance prizes split

 

TW Cable joins DCR

 

'Sniper' takes shot at 'Aladdin'

 

'Foxfire' pic rights on Chestnut Hill

 

Army's brigade

 

International Briefs

 

Italy altars viewing habits

 

TVI bows in Portugal

 

Polygram's visionary deal

 

'Dracula,' 'Beast' hot at int'l B.O.

 

MPEAAdrops Malta piracy complaint

 

Rhino, Westwood One in concert pact

 

Invisible man holds his own in company of wolves

 

Hoberman exits Ziffren law firm

 

Par buys 'No Harm' for Redford

 

DGA cool to Valenti labeling plan

 

Big game Bowls over competition

 

U.S. Box Office Report

 

Graff ppv completes placement

 

Col TriStar distribbing NGS in vid

 

Webs revive war over fin-syn regs

 

Winter of b.o. discontent

 

'Crying' still on N.Y. roll

 

Births

 

Edward Richley

 

CBS pits reality against Wed 'Mysteries'

 

Nicholson, Nolte, Mancuso team

 

Levine high tech, int'l law rep

 

Short Takes

 

Cheetah makes it to fifth anni

 

Prez sends tribute to 40th anni party, will visit soon

 

The return of Frank Mancuso

 

Pleskow-Spikings ink Tristar pact

 

Blockbuster reports a mega-ending to '92

 

Producer Kemp quits 'Delta'

 

WGA East, ABC ok contract

 

Fox TV to acquire Atlanta affil

 

Turner wins 'Serial' rights for Waters pic

 

Chasen sr. pub veepee at MGM

 

Playboy sees rise in operating income

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Financial Briefs

 

TW, Sony coin boosts DCR

 

Andre Rene Roussimoff

 

Glenn Corbett

 

Jo Ann Javins

 

Ritchard (Dick) Brown

 

Betty McGillivray

 

Preservation of pix studied

 

Disney inks product venture in India

 

Col Tristar U.K.high set by 'Dracula'

 

Helmer Beyer tapped chair of Berlin jury

 

Distrib shakeout in Canada

 

ASC to honor screenwriter Kanin

 

Valenta joins KTTV news

 

NUMBERS BOX

 

Daily Variety film box office report

 

Bill Duke gets into the 'Act'

 

Nolte's in 'Trouble,' with Roberts

 

Super Bowl kicks NBC to 1st place

 

'Studs' chased from time slot

 

Par promotes Helton, Miller and Zilli

 

Live files reorganization plan

 

Infinity nets stations

 

Tribune's 4th-qtr. rally too litlle, too late

 

TW rating lowered

 

Knight Ridder shares up 3.9% in '92

 

Trimark sees 15% boost in qtr. Income

 

Mate hiked to sr. veep at HBO arm

 

H'w'd arts Council awards'Charlies'

 

Hitched

 

Republic, IFE ink ad sales deal

 

Rothman memorial

 

Pete Manchikes

 

Music Center Opera sets 93-94 sked

 

Viewer's Choice launches new services

 

Arresting nominees take Soul Train

 

Cablers must offer home wiring

 

Court nixes ruling denying satellite protection rights

 

Murphy joins Swanson agency

 

Reed expected to sell 3.7% stake in BSkyB

 

Philips moves to pull plug on HDTV

 

Correction

 

Sinbad sailing to Disney

 

FCC'S Marshall folds syn-fin hand

 

Katzenberg in D.C. for label lobby

 

Freedman, Greene join on cable MM doc

 

Pare reflects on 'Shadow'

 

CCC seesrecord results

 

Murphy upped to CNN VP

 

Nelson to settle IRS tax dispute

 

Kodak earnings, sales up in qtr.

 

Taper fest focuses on new plays

 

VH-1, MJI radio cut syndie deal

 

Dan Lindquist

 

Steve Merritt

 

Edward P. Morgan

 

Edward Betzer

 

Danforth to leave senate

 

Cars, candidates drive cable ads up

 

Births

 

Bowles ankles Skouras post

 

HBO blindsides big three

 

Italo scandal rocks RAI

 

Nashville Europe cabler set

 

Changing channels

 

WNBC, WNET share projects

 

Priority Records gives Ice-T a shot

 

ABC lineup takes on a new look

 

MGM ups Farkas to VP

 

Morton, Planet claim wins

 

Modine back at WMA

 

Prism taps Mackiewicz for int'l arm

 

'Live' may go to Lampley

 

Fadem VEG sr. veepee

 

GI posts $ 7.2 mil net

 

Blackwell eyes Jukebox stake

 

Ben Peter Freeman

 

Farrell (Mike) Strawn

 

David C. Rockola

 

Short Takes

 

MTM Distrib. hikes Dwyer to VP-GSM post

 

Sci-Fi cabler gets into video

 

On music

 

USC in Filmmaking biz

 

NBC hands the ball to Ohlmeyer

 

Mazursky, Creek team up for 'Poor'

 

PGA reveals nominees

 

Leno lands a lawyer

 

Academy administrator Edwards dies

 

Dave woos CBS affils at confab

 

Fox to issue full 'Abyss'

 

People's Choice noms out

 

'Milk Money' makes change

 

Oscar watch

 

Time Warner offering targets Preferred C

 

Canal+ '92 revs up 12%

 

TM '92 revs up slightly

 

Tech News

 

Gilula sales VP at CapCities vid wing

 

Ohlmeyer no stranger to NBC

 

'Adventure' pairs Primedia, Spelling

 

Berlin Fest tribute to aid war victims

 

'Deep Space' still far out in ratings

 

AFI to cite Bennett winners

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Reviews

King of the Schnorrers

Rough Crossing

Maggie's Madness

Guy Clark

The Magic Flute

Relatively Speaking

New Guinea: Land of the Unexpected Island Invaders; Other Worlds

Cbs Tuesday Movie Poisoned by Love: The Kern County Murders

The Odd Couple

The Cemetery Club

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Private Debts

Public Access

Silent Tongue


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