Table of Contents
Week of 05/07/1993

Articles

Streep going for thrills with role in 'River Wild'

 

Beacon commits to Sony Pictures

 

MGM isn't buying PPV preems

 

Brokaw, Couric get 'Prime' slots

 

Health care reform hot H'w'd topic

 

Seven set for induction in ATAS Hall

 

More channels, less quality, Stringer says

 

Mahoney inked for 'Frasier'

 

Cablers deny Post story

 

WMA signs Jakoby

 

Grode signs on at Kaye, Scholer firm

 

'Love' coming early to KCBS

 

Devine new U veepee of acquisitions

 

NBC spec to go 'Inside KGB'

 

NBC names Schultz media relations VP, West Coast

 

Murphy MTV's man

 

'Tonight' looking strong

 

Short Takes

 

Pubcaster RTVE bids for Spain satellite slots

 

Hardy headed to Oz's Ten Net

 

Kirch eyeing RTL share

 

NBC pulls 'Cheers' promos

 

INS hits Disneyland with fine

 

Levitt memorial

 

Mankiewicz memorial

 

Vincent Rao

 

Bloom joins SPE as veep

 

TW launches alternative music distrib'n company

 

100 films in three days: Trials of a jury member

 

Bankruptcy judge OKs SCI plan to escape Ch. 11

 

Playboy posts lower 3rd-qtr. net on 18% rev increase

 

Financial Briefs

 

Exec Shuffle

 

RHI revenues climb, net droops in quarter

 

ABC eyes 'Live' support system

 

MacMurray Center set

 

Redford almost came 'Clean' for MGM

 

ABC sked full of in-house shows

 

'Dragon' has chops; 'Dave' solid in 2nd

 

FCC reverses rule, bans TV 'warehousing'

 

Par makes 'Bogus' deal

 

Managers are making a move

 

It's no joke: Germans seek sitcom writers

 

FBC to launch cable channel via TCI

 

Kidvid orgs urge one educational hour daily

 

Welch to address NBC meet

 

TV violence hearing set for May 12

 

Silver joins Variety Inc. in sales director post

 

A film script to 'Die' for

 

Emmy noms due Tuesday

 

Cineplex Odeon 1st-qtr. operating results gain ground

 

Carolco's year is 'Basic'

 

MacAndrews & Forbes wraps Marvel tender bid

 

Disney book inaccurate, kin charges

 

Miramax hears Duigan's 'Sirens'

 

D.C. raid nets 50,000 tapes

 

'Deux,' 'Bopha!' nab PG-13s

 

ABC, NBC mull MLB pact

 

Katz/Rush forms TV round table

 

Academy picks up 'Jamon' for theatrical

 

Westinghouse out of film distrib'n biz

 

Music exex turn up volume up in SoundScan row

 

Gill hopes to provoke a change in perception

 

Short Takes

 

International Briefs

 

'Point' has few returns overseas

 

Mogul seeks Antena stake

 

UIP seeks 'Jurassic' perk

 

Kaza new UIP Pay-TV prez

 

Arab court pans play, jails actor, director

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Kushnick warns grads of resistance to women

 

WMA inks Cannon

 

It's MGM's land grab, but Carolco also gains

 

Ann Todd

 

Francis X. Murphy

 

Robert De Niro

 

Liberating Hollywood from its D.C. misconception

 

'Men' offers Matthau lightweight comic role

 

'Saved by the Bell' actor hit with date rape charge

 

New film toon for Batman

 

ABC slate features 11 new series

 

Gralnick tops 'Nightly News'

 

Blockbuster, IBM eye electronic inventories

 

Tony bids: 'Tommy,' 'Kiss' 11; 'Angels' 9

 

New guys tops as B.O. drops

 

WGAW to host film, TV meet

 

Par casts its vote for 'Party' script

 

Family playing Games

 

MGM exec Dingilian dies at 60

 

CEMA hikes McFadden

 

Scripter Mattson signs at UTA

 

FBC two-times '90210'

 

Ivory to get Pioneer nod from alma mater

 

Gotham makes big to-do over exclu 'Much Ado'

 

B'casters decry 'indecent' procedures

 

Cone named R&C veep

 

Nest not empty with new units

 

Harold and Sue Watkins

 

Joseph Berg

 

Alwin Nikolais

 

Nancy Quinn

 

Donald Randolph

 

German TV ad spots increase

 

Oz authorities look into pay-TV bidder

 

Greek statesman resigns over TV flap

 

German music-TV channel still begging for backers

 

'Proposal' keeps up steam in Italo bow

 

Odyssey o'seas for HBO

 

Eagles sans producer as Nosotros faces suits

 

ACLU blasts Ky. vid case

 

H'wood's strange love affair with mysterious Mr. K

 

Blackfriars headed way off Broadway

 

ARD, ZDF talk sports rights

 

Financial Briefs

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'X' marks July vid bow

 

Short Takes

 

Smith stays strong thru cancer surgery

 

Top markets bid on syndie 'Home'

 

Annaud inks pact with Sony

 

CL, guilds pact against Hemdale

 

Fox goes for pair of pilots

 

$100 mil for Showtime originals

 

'Tommyknockers' makes ABC's week

 

Disney taps Wainwright for 'Blank'

 

Acad honors Trumbo for 'Roman Holiday'

 

N.Y. Crix pick 'Angels'

 

West, Oracle plan 'highway'

 

Cobain nixes reports of disc trouble

 

Antonowsky ankles SPE

 

Dozen movies and trio of minis on ABC sked

 

Capella nabs 'Singer'

 

Nickelodeon makes Epic deal

 

Murdoch deal draws fire

 

Reed Elsevier bids for airline, legal pubs

 

Musicland expanding

 

Analysts boost 2 stocks

 

Blockbuster exex pledge readiness for future tech

 

Brooks, Gill lead nods from ACM

 

Cable viewers: free b'casting

 

SESAC on track with computer rights plan

 

Canada's Movie Network finds multiplexing's a hit

 

Talent set for People's Comedy fest

 

Fox ups three in int'l TV division

 

Britain drops HDTV protest

 

MCA fills key o'seas job

 

The danger-fraught world of web programming

 

New Line Distrib'n taps Levy Western manager

 

Vidmark ups Siebert

 

'90210' finds enthused auds in far-off zip codes

 

News Corp.'s 3rd quarter BSky-rockets

 

WCBS may bump net's Sat. lineup

 

Violent TV takes hits on the Hill

 

Bond set for 0017th

 

Hagman, NBC huddle over series, telefilms

 

Fox weaves cable web with TCI

 

Rudolph films to beef up CapCities/ABC Video larder

 

Fili ankles Lifetime for ABC daytime slot

 

Fine Line buys rights to Taviani pic

 

ITC rides 'Buffalo' toward big screen

 

Amblin Ent. Flirts with 'Doll's Eyes'

 

Loews circuit names two film dept. exex

 

Turner posts surge in income

 

Handleman trading heavy, price drops

 

CBS' Tisch crows, calls for b'cast deregulation

 

CapCities/ABC, Fingerhut in direct marketing venture

 

Mantello, Dowd tabbed new talents

 

Exec Shuffle

 

NAACP opposes Murdoch's Post bid

 

'Damned' airing heats up debate

 

Coming soon from MCA: interactive software

 

Preems pervasive at Seattle Film Fest

 

Golenberg joins Levine/Schneider

 

Lipstone forms vid production outfit

 

Syndies sink in year-to-year race

 

Country winners shoot the breeze backstage

 

Lewis, Frances form indie record label

 

Penelope Gilliatt

 

Chargeurs buys stake in Tobis

 

Polygram, Meteor pact

 

Animation center eyed for Dresden

 

SAT 1 deadline nears

 

Brit producer Baker joins U.K. Nickelodeon

 

Canadian cablers urged to fight TV violence

 

Whitaker in line to drive TriStar's 'Number Four'

 

Short Takes

 

RCA prexy gives Nipper something to bark about

 

Helmer takes fragrant furlough for blurb

 

Reviews

Aretha Franklin: Duets

Masterpiece Theatre Doctor Finlay--Parts I-Vi

Daybreak

Abc Miniseries the Tommyknockers -- Parts I & II

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story

Lost in Yonkers

For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story

Playboy of the West Indies

Sting

And Baby Makes Seven

Grandma Sylvia's Funeral

Wild Men!

With Hostile Intent

1968: 25th Anniversary

Understanding Northern Ireland

Usa World Premiere Movie Sex, Love, and Cold Hard Cash

Wild Justice

Educating Peter

Wild Palms

CBS Sunday Movie There Was a Little Boy


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