Table of Contents
Week of 03/19/1994

Articles

'Oprah' fit for King for 5 more yrs.

 

Gallup rolls pic poll

 

Smoking 'Gun' hits $ 13.5 mil

 

'Seinfeld' L.A. strip to KTLA

 

NAB opens on record high

 

Oscar vs. the odds

 

Bamboo curtain rises for H'wood

 

Fleet of pilots ready

 

Publicists honor Archerd

 

Cost control: Making H'wood's tough calls

 

Barrymore mulls $ 1.5 mil 'Love' offer

 

New Regency buys 'Empire'

 

Gabor seeks Chapter 11

 

KABC first on air with quake coverage

 

Pic panel frets about senator

 

Mai Zetterling

 

CBS Sports prez Pilson exits

 

FCC's Barrett blasts Quello's stern warning

 

Spotlight catches short, foreign pix

 

NTN, ABC in Oscar pact

 

Summer kickoff planned for 'F'ball'

 

Indie Spirit raises Altman's 'Cuts'

 

Roller-coaster B.O.

 

Malaysia's Muslim gov't bans 'List'

 

Canada Junos a Rankin affair

 

Berlusconi calls Mafia rumor 'lies'

 

Pubs rule at German TV awards

 

Schulhof reassures record retailers

 

Short Takes

 

Spielberg pix sound great at MPSE's Golden Reels

 

Mega-managing

 

Aftershock adds to f/x at Oscar rehearsal

 

Nick to spend $ 30 mil in bid for preschoolers

 

Gates, McCaw launch satellite data system

 

MGM distrib'n cuts staff by 20

 

Big deal for Roddenberry

 

'Gun' fires weekend to '94 high

 

Arledge touts webs, criticizes tabloid TV

 

Exex skeptical of Pac Bell pix

 

Dack Rambo dead at 53

 

'Jurassic' rumbles to vid in October

 

'Paper' chases good numbers in bicoastal bow

 

Lena Olin and Lasse Hallstrom

 

Macdonald Carey

 

Alain-Fabien Delon

 

Sweet success for Spielberg

 

Bell won't hang up on showbiz

 

BBC, Star TV to split in parts of Asia

 

Viacom ups Horowitz to New Media chief

 

Israeli pay TV service challenged

 

Ten Group's profits up over six months

 

S. Africa pic fest touts liberty

 

Time Warner's mogul operandi

 

Fritts predicts at NAB meet: b'casters here to stay

 

Prelude to the Oscar prosaic

 

Hanks lauds films touting tolerance

 

Gothamites talk up town as alternative Oscar site

 

Paquin 'old' for moppet Oscar gold

 

'Schindler's List' likely due biggest B.O. boost

 

Cates awaits numbers before he'll re-up

 

Leguizamo inks for 'Pyro'

 

Whoopicast Holds with '93 Ratings

 

Richter hooks whale of a payday for 'Willy II'

 

PTAR war of words expected

 

CBS shoots, but it's ABC that scores

 

KTTV makes Kaplan's 'Day'

 

'Houseguest' makes room for Hartman

 

Pioneering animator Lantz dies

 

Streisand makes it official

 

Orion distrib'n closing in on Renascence pact

 

Col inks Sarandon for 'Women'

 

Cooper tops Par Parks

 

Televisa renting satellite transponders

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Street calm as rate inches up

 

Telemundo income up for fourth quarter

 

Info highway to make inroads into TV contracts

 

TW Cable defends net delay

 

FCC pair relax on regs

 

Manulis exits Chestnut Hill

 

Silicon Graphics, Sprint set service

 

August to Ziffren

 

Stones, Dead, Traffic unveil discs at confab

 

Cash steals Southwest music fest

 

TV shop net Maxmusic to bow

 

Goeckner joins MPAA anti-piracy unit

 

VSDA names Eves president

 

Par, Xiphias ink CD-ROM distribution

 

Decoder line forming

 

Cabler Thai Sky TV in talks with Star for joint venture

 

France debuts new Jobs TV

 

China OK's cable TV

 

TNT, Cartoon Net Belgian ban backed

 

Hong Kong to test phone vid-on-demand

 

AstralTech unveils new video plant

 

Webs are alive, well and spending (too?) freely

 

'RoboCop' nabs big ratings

 

Judge dismisses ex-Peppers' suit

 

GE eyeing cable connection

 

New Line hit by Outlaw suit

 

Par adds 2 more affils to fifth-network stable

 

Pension suit could cause rift at DGA

 

Fox & NFL team up for World League

 

Fox's WFLD to strip 'Seinfeld' in Chi

 

Saban creates prod'n arm

 

Oscar boosts Oskar

 

'Executive Privilege' to Kopelson

 

Alphaville's Albert goes indie

 

Eagles confirm tour for high-flying summer

 

Lorre signs deal with Carsey-Werner

 

'Sign' Aces on pop chart

 

Simon, 'Saigon' set for Ahmanson season

 

Corrections

 

CapCities/ABC earns 'buy' from Bear Stearns

 

TV sales surge limited

 

Smith, Boyce assume new Viacom-Par duties

 

Heated NAB panel sesh sparsely attended

 

FCC boss to protect free TV

 

Hundt: NAB absence due to 'patriotic duty'

 

Syndies slip after sweeps

 

CD-ROM rental: fine idea, not so simple

 

Getty fest looks at urban life in movies

 

Jackson and Pearl Jam register with merchants

 

So's advice to the West

 

Music industry trumpets 1994

 

Star to re-launch pay-TV in Taiwan bow

 

Radio JFK begins its b'casting day in Berlin

 

'List' ban may be reviewed

 

EC threatens action vs. U.K. over quotas

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Amblin exec cops top PR award

 

Coelho named to TCI board

 

Fox Sports taps Jones exec veepee, biz ops

 

Giulietta Masina

 

Bill Harp

 

Frances Guenette

 

Samuel Albert

 

First Media wins PTAR hearing

 

Falcon fears FCC rollback

 

New World Inc. bows on Nasdaq

 

L.A. to consider joint city-county permit board

 

Syndication Briefs

 

Short Takes

 

USC, NYU reel in top ranks

 

Candidate Stern vows to quit

 

Propaganda taps Green to top business affairs

 

Satellite biz launches war on wire

 

Medavoy, pals might make movie money move

 

Inking artists of the future

 

Draw by numbers

 

B'casters sketch cartoon criteria

 

Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert

 

License to draw money issued in merchandising

 

Superheroes battle on small screens

 

Familiar stories gracing big screens in '94

 

Brits find a pot of gold in clay

 

MTV, NMTV, Nick butt heads with the cutting edge

 

Q&A with Spumco's John Kricfalusi

 

'Magic Bus' series hits the road at PBS

 

Barrymore weds bar owner in small ceremony

 

Par hitches trailer to fiber-optic highway

 

CL books: Sacre bleu!

 

Firm hauls ABC's butt into court

 

Turner sees competish for Star TV

 

Douglas, Reuther shingle up

 

Tartikoff in deal with E!

 

Holy roller! TW bows Batman ride

 

Oz does deal with Disney

 

B'ball can't bounce day regulars

 

ESPN leads field with 19 bids for Sports Emmys

 

Fox firms 'Mantis,' suspenser

 

Teller in MCA elite

 

Carolco, Live remarry

 

Cinar seeks Nasdaq listing

 

Short Takes

 

Restaurateurs sued over TV City name

 

Carey memorial

 

Harold Myers

 

Hughie Wallis

 

Lili Damita

 

Paul Cavanagh

 

SAG names Medved communications chief

 

Org fetes femme b'cast themes

 

City folk learn ropes

 

Polygram gets biz in Russia

 

EC previews Green Paper

 

Euro Disney banks show concern

 

Krost, Chapin ankle org

 

Big numbers for KMEX assassination coverage

 

Matsushita sets 3DO tech

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'House' preem benefits Cinematheque

 

Are you Reeling in the years, stowing away the time?

 

Reynolds baffled by new o.j. spokesman

 

Reviews

The Flowering Peach

Mother's Boys

Tv Reviews; Against the Wall

Thunder in Paradise

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Above the Rim

For the Moment

Mona Must Die

Wundbrand: Sarajevo, 17 Tage in August

Dahil Mahal Kita

Le Voleur et la Menteuse

Todos a la Carcel

Below 30/ Above 10,000

L'Orso Di Peluche

High Boot Benny

Perdiamoci Di Vista

La Naissance de L'Amour

De Eso No Se Habla

Ram Csaj Meg Nem Volt Ilyen Hatassal

Du Pappa ...

Baltic Love

The Flowering Peach

Marathon Dancing

Stomp

Peer Gynt

False Admissions

The Price

Eclipse

Somebody Else's House

Full Moon

The Pool of Bethesda

Brutality of Fact

The Girl in the Watermelon

Crowded House

Laughing Matters

The Fourth Wall

Wild Hearts: A Woman's Western

Thunder in Paradise

The 66th Annual Academy Awards

The Oresteia

Liz Phair; The Spinanes

A Musical Affair to Remember

Yo-Yo Ma

Jimmy Hollywood

D2: The Mighty Ducks

Search and Rescue

Abc Theater the Yarn Princess

Against the Wall

Mysteries of the Bible Moses at Mount Sinai

Carousel

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992


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