Table of Contents
Week of 02/12/1994

Articles

Potter's new wheel

 

NBC: Signs of 'Life'

 

Harbert tells IRTS that a TV kiss is still a kiss

 

Tonya a hit for CBS

 

QVC lets curtain fall on bidding

 

Mercurio dances into 'Beyond'

 

Par fills 'Cupboard'

 

MCA gets 30 days on subway stop

 

UCLA taps 7 screenwriters

 

Is a remake just what the 'Doctor' ordered?

 

Attacks on rap spawn album-rating debate on Hill

 

Havas tightens Canal + grip as Rousselet walks

 

'List' wows in Aussie bow

 

Berlusconi pol foes: no equal time

 

Polstein New Line prod'n VP

 

'Third' makes the grade at U

 

'River' tops in Aspen

 

Agenda full for ASCAP meet

 

Short Takes

 

DiCaprio scores in 'Diaries'

 

The nitty-gritty of reinventing the action picture

 

Virus pic fever infects Fox, WB

 

'Today' wins again; late shows rising

 

Death of a salesman

 

Valenti aims to make up with Europe

 

Great White North merger bid begins

 

Carrere Star of Tomorrow

 

A better Berlin market

 

Tori, Tori, Tori: back in 'The Pink'

 

'Detective' aces 'Getaway'

 

Valenti added as Oscar presenter

 

Correction

 

Clarifications

 

Cokie faux pas upsets Arledge

 

Roger Rabbit creator Wolf nears deal with Time Warner

 

Lee latches on to 'Jungle' role

 

Bravo targets Oscar surfers

 

PGA honors Archerd

 

People choose 'Park,' 'Firm,' 'Mrs.'

 

S.F.'s KPIX to bump 'CBS This Morning'

 

Allen top terper for Oscars

 

NBC re-skeds 'Blossom' to Saturday night lineup

 

Producers Guild nod to 'Schindler' team

 

Canal+ topper exits pay-TV'er

 

NBC to air ice follies spec

 

Paramount taps Blachman sr. VP

 

Jackson gives his 'Dangerous' testimony

 

Sorrell Booke

 

Marvin Miller

 

Feltheimer tops new Col/TriStar TV entity

 

DeCamillo joins United Talent

 

Correction

 

ABC News report draws reprimand

 

Expo moves to Burbank

 

Edgar Joseph Dobbs

 

Weiner tapped New Regency legal VP

 

Britton tapped G.M. of Creature Shop

 

Houston tops honorees

 

'Hoop Dreams' hotshots bounce into bidding war

 

Wallace eyes 5 more years

 

Cinar profits jump by half for fiscal '93

 

Viacom likely Par winner

 

'Papaya' still firm, 'Cement' strong in exclusives

 

Weather storms B.O.; 'Ace' detects success

 

Richardson set for 'Nell'

 

Pic permit plan near

 

Roadshow ups Barlow to prexy

 

Short Takes

 

Rabin ankles Morgan Creek

 

Cablers on offensive

 

Butte ankles 'Crusaders' exec post

 

Turner seals deal for 'Andre'

 

'Schindler' bow strong in Oz despite exhib gripes

 

Oracle bows its tech for infopike paving

 

U hangs tough on vid window

 

V-chip 'fine' with Hundt

 

Inouye urges cable rate cuts

 

Brownstein to Levine/Schneider

 

Jazzing up cable

 

Lescure to top Canal+

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Olympian rates give CBS a win

 

Springsteen on Oscars

 

ABC, CBS ink college gridirons

 

So. Cal's new permissiveness

 

Crystal's Face taps Boyarsky

 

Jackson wins copyright case

 

Financial Briefs

 

Rogers bid rejected

 

Viacom wraps Par marathon

 

Two join Visual Prods.

 

Editors to honor Allen, Ruggiero

 

Lawrence blasts 'Crazy's' NC-17

 

BBC to b'cast U.S. channel

 

New Line vid sales hit $ 170 mil

 

Primetime baseball hits NBC, ABC weak nights

 

Hopkins gets presenter nod

 

WB plans new tech facility

 

Merger moves Par into new era

 

Gifford services

 

MTA's Kelly goes to Gersh

 

Eustis ankles Taper for Rhode Island's Trinity

 

Women's Film Fest debuts in Berkeley

 

Par players eye future

 

France's MK2 creates production coin co.

 

'Schindler' off Swedish kids' list

 

Murdoch talks tough

 

Swiss judge eyes Lyonnais exex

 

Eye sees 'Traps' at 10

 

NBC prayers answered? No comment from God

 

Dolgin to Fox Sports

 

Snyder eyed for post-Dave perch

 

'Homicide' gets new life at NBC

 

Sawyer stays put

 

Lescure in at Canal +

 

Samantha Elizabeth French

 

'Fish' cooks in Berlin

 

HSN posts losses

 

New Line wins next Woo pic

 

Boyle & Taylor ride 'Rocket' to multimillion-$ financing

 

Cineplex back in black

 

Merger debt monitored

 

K-Tel victor in catalog suit

 

Tomei, Huston in 'Family'

 

'Front Page' unfolds plan to move to N.Y.

 

'Oprah,' 'Maury' up in syndie sweeps

 

Street high on Viacom, Par pact

 

Reitman has TV 'First'

 

Hawn joins Acad cast

 

Heller new TV prexy at Lee Rich

 

British vid-on-demand tests to begin in March

 

Obituaries

 

Austrian 'List' bow emotional

 

BSkyB in pic pact with U.K.

 

Zenith HDTV standard

 

'Honeymooners' highlights, '60s rock on CD-ROM

 

ShoWest taps O'Donnell

 

Hitched

 

Sinatra on Grammycast

 

The neverending 'Deal From Hell'

 

Thompson inks for U's 'Junior'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Asian pix hit it big at Berlin fest

 

Short Takes

 

'Fugitive' vid beats Oscars

 

Stone Stanley inks for firstrun with Nick, ESPN

 

Oscar gig no go at Spago

 

WB's million-dollar 'Matrix'

 

MPAA, telcos in infopike fray

 

Correction

 

Coppola to produce 'Don Juan'

 

Muse buys 2 Thompson tomes

 

Jacobson takes Delphi VP post

 

'Fresa y Chocolate' is Berlin's tasty treat

 

Change for Canada coin

 

Sony Classics picks up rights to Berlin fest hit 'Window'

 

TV Acad sets student nods

 

Consumer org urges FCC to cut cable rates by 20%

 

Karz Agency opens

 

Miramax acquires film history documentaries

 

Turner, Pollock at ShoWest

 

New Yorker's 'Doubt' bought by United Artists

 

Sony posture mimics Japan economic woes

 

Prod'n for 'Smilla' thriller a $ 25 miller

 

Diller regroups

 

Short Takes

 

Buena Vista Intl. ups Hyson

 

B'casters' 'wish list'

 

Third Decade reunites 'Midnight Cowboy' crew

 

Pic print stolen in Hollywood

 

Distribber aims at studio product

 

New York politics bring Castle Rock to 'City Hall'

 

'Conan' in at KRON

 

TriStar acquires female bounty hunter project

 

Sheehan exits KNBC

 

Anna Morales and Thomas L. Rhodes II

 

Skouras gets distrib rights to Oz family pic 'Brumby'

 

Goldwyn buys 'What Happened'

 

Showbiz forges plan for new fire-safety regs

 

Flextech move latest in Brit TV upheavals

 

Paris getting PPV in May

 

Director Davis wants to sell

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Tiger Haynes

 

Gould to exit ASCAP post

 

With Par score, Redstone barges into 'The Club'

 

Konrad to top Woods

 

CBS takes a shot with assembled 'Earp' pic

 

ABC to air 'Roseanne' seg with warning label

 

Berlin at midgame

 

Walt Disney Co. cruising into new business area

 

ABC moves back on top in ayem

 

Braxton reaches pop top

 

Wink gets nod

 

Tampa affil brings Par's total to 26

 

Cablers see roadblock in rollbacks

 

'Band' author Shilts dies of AIDS

 

Author adds cover-ups to mysteries

 

Reviews

Hoop Dreams

A Body of Water

8 Seconds

Zone

Seinfeld the Marine Biologist

Fresa Y Chocolate Strawberry and Chocolate

Body and Soul

State of Emergency

Once in a Lifetime

The Getaway

You So Crazy

Fire Eyes

Time Is Money

I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore

Bad Apple

At Ground Zero

Domenica

Dezerter

Vrijeme Za...

Neues Deutschland

Verlassen Sie Bitte Ihren Mann

Mestem Chodi Mikulas

Three Birds Alighting on a Field

Three Tall Women

Death of a Salesman

Tangents

Frontline Tabloid Truth: The Michael Jackson Scandal

Roseanne Don't Make Room for Daddy

Nbc Movie of the Week Danielle Steel's Once in a Lifetime

Federal Hill

Blue Chips

An Off Broadway Cabaret

New Explorers Special in the Footsteps of Dr. Livingstone

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit '94: The 30th Anniversary

Unfinished Stories

Teenage Fanclub; Yo la Tengo

Mr. a's Amazing Maze Plays

Elektra

Which End's Up?

Caribbean Romance

Nbc Sunday Night at the Movies I Know My Son Is Alive

The Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Nbc Movie of the Week Moment of Truth: To Walk Again

Inevitable Grace



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