MGM Culkin bid: $ 9 mil

'Nightline' allows affils to take five

October picks up Rea film

'Cheers' ' Cliff hangs hat at Fox

Writer says Par's heat nixed book

Savoy pix boffo in Wall St. bow

INTV urges FCC to keep fin-syn

TWI nominates 4 for board of directors

HRTS panel to display b'cast tech

Allen says he's cleared

Amman upped at Fox to sr.. Pub/promo VP

Par ups Maas to veepee post

DeKoven officially NBC sr. VP

Oscar watch

Financial Briefs

Cabler Comcast has good year

Reed Elsevier results show benefit of merger

A loss of good standing

Disney web's image ignites subscriber surge

AFA starts AIDS group

World African cabler to launch

Skip Young of 'Ozzie & Harriet' dies

German university buys 700 DEFA pix

Stone giving berth to Tarantino 'Killers'

Lavoise runs for IA VP

AIDS auction on 63 cablers

LACRA OKs prop buy

Syndication Briefs

Exec Shuffle

House high onTBS Sat signals

Hitched

Jackie Barnett

Lynette Williams-Jones

Ellen Abrams

John Horn

Giovanni Testori

Short Takes

Bullock in for Petty on 'Man'

'Penal Colony' rolling

'Preston' drafted for WB/Renfield

Reel life

Roberts once again working, in 'Trouble'

U.S. box office report

Gov't b'cast reform urged

Disney exec funs spread

'Sonic' is the top hog on DIC toon slate

Sinatra, Reprise part ways

'Turtles' back at b.o.

Jackson, Kirschner talk pix

'Dateline' exec prod'r, 2 more axed

BAFTA can't decide between 'End,' 'Game'

'Father' adopts Miner

'Deadfall' dispute has plot twist

H'w'd labors to change work rules

NBC firms lineup for Sat. a.m.

Oscar watch

Samples expected to take reins at TPE

Cablevision revs, subs up

Clouds part for troubled SkyPix

Financial Briefs

CNBC pulls plug on new show

Island's Blackwell feeds Video Jukebox

New Disney titles fuel hot sell-through week

Fox rules kids, CBS day reign holds

Pic, TV pub noms unveiled by Guild

Music News

Depeche has faith in new 'Songs'

Births

CFC boasts boost in use of pic resources

APA/UCLA Awards set in memory of Klein

Claster has 'Courage' to help kidvid law

Six b'casters elected to NAB TV board

Discovery set for Japan launch

Michael Maslansky

Donnie Cohen

Joyce Carey

Hitched

H'wood Blvd. security

Prism suing ABC over 'Amy'

FoxTV station buy challenged

Short Takes

4th GLAAD Awards take political turn

Curb countersues MCA

Dion sweeps Canada's Junos with four prizes

Cook seen chairing FCC

International Briefs

WB romances int'l b.o.

Pix tied to centenary of MaoTse-Tung

WB leading foreign film distrib in Japan

Canadian webs fight for hockey

E! has solution to Stern rift with NOW

Exec Shuffle

Trustman nabs Casey's 'Spartina'

DAILY VARIETY VIDEO RENTAL REPORT

Lowest common denominator doesn't work anymore

TV return in Tartikoff's future?

Who was that masked man?

Simon & Schuster releases Anson

Stern, KLSX no longer numero uno

Oscar rivals top MPSE nods

Austin music Confab a hit

Hammer picked for Fox/TriStar pilot

Oscar watch

Image slices work force

Times Mirror gains Insight stake

Marvel-ous bid ups ante

Miramax rules L.A., Gotham B.O.

WISB honors Barbara Sinatra

Arlen revue set at La Jolla in fall

With Peacock on board, BVTV firms 'Crusaders'

Rowe Wallerstein

Stephen J. Sapuppo

Cox confirms realignment

Short Takes

Exec Shuffle

M.D. ankles troubled German sports channel

Tartikoff lauds CBC exec

Looney Tunes lead WB's Asian invasion

German upstart VTO is hot and bothered over regs

B'caster ZDF trims o'seas news bureaus

'Bet,' 'Call' swap slots

'Turtles' fans shell out

Numbers Box

Carolco Pictures buys sci-fi 'Carnival Earth'

Judge drops ICM from 'Helena' suit

Silverman, Hargrove add Van Dyke to slate

Capitol layoffs reportedly include acts

'Homefront,' 'Broken Cord' take TV honors

Farrow ankles 'Wolf'

NBC report rips 'Dateline'

DAILY VARIETY FILM BOX OFFICE REPORT

'Demolition' injury sidelines Sly

ABC plans strong race

Numbers Box

Cable rates draw Hill fire

WB fetches Hughes to walk 'Dog'

Fox $1 mil deal is 'Child's' play

MCA, Motown settle

Eye sights on Thurs.-Sat.

Guber: Don't let technology take over

Eley sr. VP marketing, Motown

Council meet to decide fate of Oscar fee waiver

IFP/West takes aim at MPAA ratings board

CBS stuffs foes, extends streak

Russell is tapped biz VP at SPE

Cannell nixes 'Viper' title

Age bias decried at WGA fete

HBO Pix to make mini of 'Kentucky'

Oscar watch

AMC to buy back theaters

Financial Briefs

Adelphia posts 3rd-qtr. net loss

Exec Shuffle

Kahane, H'w'd Records form label

WCBS tops N.Y. local Emmys with eight wins

Savage's DiLeo goes out on own

RHI, ABC make Magic mini

Downey gears for another shot at a syndie talkshow

Atlantic brings rooArt to U.S.

WGAE tribute to a Salesman

Brand consciousness raised

Fear freezes creativity, exex assert

Microsoft VP details digital revolution

Quello makes case for fin-syn repeal

Panel raps cable expansion

Music confab focuses on globalization, technology

BVTV promotes Packer to VP

U.K. 'Orange' screening in violation

Cabler to spend $ 200 mil to produce original dox

William Howard

Ed Jurist

Mildred Collins

Jergen Nash

Burdette Bullock

Jay Raeben

Larz E. Bourne

Edgar Nelson Barclift

Today's TV greats should be so lucky tomorrow

Marie Saxon Silverman

Current nominees, past winners at N.Y. Oscar fete

Short Takes

It's TV time for 'Clock'

People power fuels ad-blurb drive, grind

Paying the hyper

Producers told to 'adapt or die'

Infomercials hit world stage

Commercials' production sold on new technologies

Top infomercial categories

New dance, old song

Decentralization catches on, catches fire

'Helena' costs Kim arm and a leg

H'w'd's case of the shakes

Numbers Box

Disney plans hour of kid TV

NBC seeks young and the rest

Fox wants to expand audience

Hancock, WB in 3-script deal

'Dead' role rewritten for Seagal

ABC, Acad ink Oscar deal

Webs decry Par's use of ratings ads

Dingell sends a 'cablegram'

Staffers say rival 'Inside Edition' stole footage

Greenberg expected to head Jackson label

Werber now Fox veepee, acquisitions

Oscar watch

Promo to 'Celebrate B'Way'

John Hersey

Allan Cross

UCLA, Kagan seminar team

Org to urge limit on TV violence

Syndication Briefs

Exec Shuffle

Court launches co-prod venture

Oz studio boosts U.S. prod'n slate

Who's Where

MPAA backs off Italians

Nadir hit for Zenith staff

Cecchi Goris buy 5 theaters in Rome

Short Takes

TRADEMARX; Pinkerton chips in to pick Oscar security candidates

Specials beat post-sweeps syndie blahs

Sony takes up Met baton

'Dracula' tops Saturn contenders

Cable Briefs

Location News; Mexico's Cine South looks to branch out

Huston award created

McCartney back at Bowl

Births

Sting, Turner, Kenny G dot Greek Theatre sked

Correction

Financial Briefs

Interactive TV boon for advertisers, report says

Live out of bankruptcy

D.C. threat hangs over confab on film labeling

'Times' getting special Spirit

Brooks crusades vs. tix scalping

City foots traffic bill for Oscars

Live sets first five 'Theater' titles

PG rating assigned Col's 'Lost in Yonkers'

Astaire estate dances around clips issues

Point of No Return

Without a Kiss Goodbye

Parker Lewis Parker's Got a Brand New Car

A Year in Provence Winter

Kevin Eubanks; James Williams; John Clayton

Challenge Two Miles Down

The Sisters Rosensweig

Aventure Malgache

Bon Voyage

Sex and Aids in Russia

The Wild West Cowboys; Settlers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III the Turtles Are Back ... in Time

Stefano Quantestorie

Tuck & Patti; Paul Ubana Jones

Tribeca the Box

Cbs Tuesday Movie Sworn to Vengeance

Falsettos

American Masters D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

You Could Be Home Now

Cold Storage

Culture Clash Unplugged

Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz

Lifetime World Premiere Movie Stolen Babies

Isn't It Romantic

Fiorile

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