Table of Contents
Week of 05/14/1993

Articles

Bowling 'em over for 1,000th time

 

Ratings show Hall has a way with the ladies

 

Rock to rap, music beats path to show's door

 

At the Bowl

 

Shared backgrounds fuse production team

 

Wayans signs on with CAA

 

NBC mulls Mon. move

 

Justice Dept. to hear webs decry decrees

 

'Piano' may be key player at Cannes

 

Cinergi eyes Marshall 'Man'

 

Col & ABCP 'Strand' together

 

AIP pic remakes rebels with a Showtime cause

 

Paramount Interactive makes multimedia bow

 

Universal ad duo upped to senior VPs

 

'Treasure' pic charted for Muppets

 

Family volume at WB

 

Financial Briefs

 

Hollings backs beer warnings

 

Time Warner heeds call

 

Rank says profits up

 

QVC unveils M.O. to SEC

 

ABC blames start-ups for spending losses

 

Showscan, Omni Films ink merger agreement

 

Republic posts profit

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Challenge to WGA ruling on 'Godfather III' denied

 

Fox clears 'Chase' for Sept. 7 bow

 

Hogan is back in 'Jack'

 

Cannes fest opens in typically French way

 

Fox pairs 'Robin,' 'Rising'

 

FCC can't afford cable reg cops

 

Rubin joins evolving 'Street'

 

'GMA' wins 26th sesh; 'Leno' hot

 

Gaden heads BMG Kidz U.K.

 

Dan Dryden

 

Letterman set for Sat. benefit

 

French clear up picture

 

Chargeurs speeds up planned restructuring

 

U.K. star Edmonds talks Stateside TV

 

TVNZ profit up 14% for year

 

Jane Pratt's chat gets axed

 

Short Takes

 

ABC finalizes pact with Arnolds' Wapello

 

'Scooby' to 'Hazel': TV's untapped pic potential

 

'Sliver' among 8 new Rs

 

Harvey Comics plans offering

 

Fox renews 'Married' for two more seasons

 

NBC says it won't give up Hope

 

Par buys Uhls' 'Mace' script for Murphy

 

'Dave' wins in nat'l B.O. race

 

EC talks pan-Euro prod'n plan

 

Kahlo biopic gets new wakeup call

 

NBC sked doesn't pull any punches

 

Fox picks Nick to do family pix

 

Koones gets Variety post

 

ABC seeking Arnold detente

 

N.Y. set in a bidding war

 

Variety Inc., Reuters unveil joint service

 

Financial Briefs

 

HSN terminates Western deal

 

Iwerks Ent. forms prod'n subsid

 

Labels rally vs. IBM-B'buster

 

Winger gets a harder edge

 

'Palms' score a virtual reality

 

Baseball might hit a foul

 

'Proposal' hits jackpot in Euro bow

 

International Briefs

 

Down looks up in France

 

Flextech seeks U.K. Family stake

 

Turner sets pair of titles from 'Pagemaster' prod'r

 

Kern to FBC pub dept.

 

Donner ankles Miramax

 

It's curtains for 'Whoopi' while Group W, Vicki dicker

 

Metcalfe inks pact with WMA

 

Cannes is biz as usual

 

NABET OKs CapCities/ABC contract

 

Forever is ongoing for the Bob and Terry Show

 

Stone moves 'Quick'-ly between pix

 

Affils praise fall NBC sked

 

Smith ankles ICM for CAA

 

Off-net 'Home' to Fox O&Os in top 3 markets

 

'Posse' scripter pacts a pair

 

TW looks West for partner

 

Gladden's back, inks distrib deals

 

Chung will co-anchor with Rather

 

Downey and Tomei to team in TriStar's 'Him'

 

Hewitt inks with WMA

 

Savoy hires Rothenberg

 

WGAW labels suit 'unprecedented'

 

NBC touts sked to affils, advertisers

 

CBS plans safe and same fall sked

 

Variety Inc. taps Vitale veep-G.M.

 

Gersh to flee Geffen -- maybe for EMI

 

MGM doesn't get 'Rich'

 

All American shrinks 1st-qtr. losses

 

Comcast posts surge of 65% in 1st-qtr. revs

 

IFE has record 1st qtr.

 

Storer stake fuels TCI's 1st-qtr. revs

 

'Dave' gets raves from constituents

 

Cannes Notes

 

Egos not only inflated thing on the Croisette

 

Births

 

Ebersol enthused over baseball deal

 

Special events found lacking

 

U.K. cinema tix sales up 11%

 

TW to lose eight cable systems

 

Short Takes

 

'Woman' to bow on vid July 28

 

ABC confirms Fili-Krushel post

 

Thomas J. Aguilar

 

Disney ups Staggs

 

'Nothing' rules in exclu release; 'Heart' bow weak

 

Goss upped to promo VP at New Line

 

Web, cable exex in line to testify on violence

 

Local 16 prez to appeal approval of NABET pact

 

U names Zakim veep

 

Walken leads 'God's Army'

 

Financial Briefs

 

Wherehouse gobbles Record Shop retail chain

 

Falcon sees higher revs, trims loss

 

N.Y. Gay Fest sets slate

 

Action stars come out as Planet rises in London

 

Webs dissent on consent

 

NBC rethinks news lead-ins

 

NBC wins a squeaker

 

Morgan Creek sacks French, will go Dutch

 

McKellen's 'Richard III' to be filmed

 

TW, U S West exex take case to D.C.

 

U buys 'High' for Scorsese

 

Rumors run rampant about CBS, Fox skeds

 

BMI honors go to Carey and Bolton

 

'Cliffhanger' leaves Carolco high and dry

 

Prime Ticket to launch Spanish service

 

Murdoch reps tie Post's fate to a speedy waiver

 

Fox creates one more prod'n arm

 

Judge backs FCC in Stern case

 

3-pointer for Stevens

 

Goldman, Steinberg given full agent status at ICM

 

TV Academy unveils engineering Emmys

 

Carolco net loss deepens

 

Financial Briefs

 

E.C. TV, Fremantle's Talbot buy minority stake in Atlantis

 

Epic's Sarlui, Diamant sue former attorney

 

Blurb-video is on the Horizon

 

NBC O&Os will ask for retrans fee

 

Employees move to buy Graham's concert biz

 

Drama Desk taps 'Angels,' 'Spider'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'Monty' may shift to Fox

 

Short Takes

 

Hitched

 

NAIRD numbers at record high

 

Bowles elevated

 

Griffin blasts 'Jeopardy!' book

 

LWT buys into Tyne Tees

 

Berlin film industry may face subsidy cut

 

Miller to head up Nickelodeon U.K.

 

Polygram subsid bows

 

Robert Becker

 

Daniel Paredes

 

William Randolph Hearst Jr.

 

Quello may talk to Reno

 

Arista promo veep reups

 

The new anxiety: I'm OK, you're a talkshow host

 

Stone woos Rydell for a 'Ghost' pic

 

Fox pushes foot to floor with 'Speed'

 

CBS eyes eight for fall plate

 

Grammys change key award rules

 

Mischer named Emmy producer

 

Basinger levy is lowered

 

'Streetfighter' game to film

 

Viacom sitting on both sides of retrans fence

 

Morehouse sr. VP, ad sales, at WB

 

Cook may withdraw from FCC chair race

 

'I'll Fly Away' to PBS, for 2-hour wrap, reruns

 

Judge OKs Liberty buy of 15 mil HSN shares

 

QVC posts gains in profit, revenue for first quarter

 

Sony multimedia merging

 

H'wood shares in Dow record

 

Hemdale picks up 'Coin' for U.S. release

 

'Deadly' Seagal pic rolling in Alaska

 

LACMA film historian Ron Haver dead at 54

 

Post creditors push Murdoch

 

'Bad' Masterson will mount up

 

PBS president stepping down

 

Santa Monica lights lamp for set decorators

 

Kamen nabs Kirk award at BMI fete

 

Evolution bows with full slate

 

Cannes Notes

 

New Anglo angle for Ariane slate

 

Dokfilm Studios' fate in doubt

 

'Sex' canceled down under

 

On the block: The King, Prince and the pauper

 

NARM sets meets for September, October

 

Bill to alter Agency Act put off until '94 session

 

May sweeps yield flat syndie numbers

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Short Takes

 

Newell is making 'Friends'

 

Youth artist fete hosted by Sony

 

CLT posts solid gains

 

Reviews

My Favorite Season

The Piano

Spic-O-Rama

Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

Madadayo Not Yet

Naked

Bob Hope: The First 90 Years

Arsenio Hall: The 1,000th Show

Faraway, So Close!

Out of Purgatory

Attack of the Killer Connection

Billy Taylor Trio; Turtle Island String Quartet

The Bodyguards

Magnificat

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn -- Parts I & II

Douba-Douba

The Wrong Man

Bradymania: A Very Brady Special

Usa World Premiere Network a Case for Murder

The Baby of Macon

Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

Menace II Society

King of the Hill

Farewell to My Concubine

Mystery! Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole at Sea


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