Table of Contents
Week of 04/02/1994

Articles

South Coast sked has 'Heart,' 'Wit'

 

'D2' slides into 2nd; 'Gun' 3rd

 

Scott tapped to run NYC film office

 

Hedman ankles Guild Ent. post

 

March milestone makes B.O. a-'List'

 

China multiplexing

 

'List' hits $ 73 mil in o'seas B.O.

 

CBS pilots course in Carter's 'Honor'

 

NCAA tournament off '93; 'Sister' nice twice for CBS

 

Correction

 

Disney prexy to lobby FCC

 

Parsons bonds with Int'l Film

 

Bernsen in Disney pilot for eye web

 

Syndie 'Grace' period

 

Rysher Ent. lands 'F/X,' will produce 2 web pilots

 

KCBS-TV's hires draw minority ire

 

Financial Briefs

 

Viacom sells stations

 

All American posts a record year

 

Canal+ cheers year

 

Par nabs 'Badger' rights

 

Sony taps Fleming as Game Show net prexy

 

2 law firms merge onto superhighway

 

UA circuit beefs up Philly/N.J.

 

Networks rev upfront with Sat. kidvid rollout

 

Toon takes Peabody

 

Noriega haunts CNN

 

Wilson seeks China copyright help

 

Former Hemdale unit settles Guild/Bank suit

 

Lucci unlucky as Emmy non-nom

 

ABC Network prez to retire

 

Upcoming Greek season features new, old blend

 

'GMA' hot, A.M. 'CBS,' 'Leno' up

 

Betty Furness

 

Pearson bids to play

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Short Takes

 

Heed Warner's warning: Get them a rewrite

 

'Specialist' Weintraub gives WB 5 more years

 

Par Interactive signs pact

 

Who's the Italo boss? B'sconi, Bossi bicker

 

correx

 

Albert Goldman

 

Onnie Morrow Drucker

 

Tom Frandsen

 

Vincent Pelletier

 

Bill Travers

 

Merrill Panitt

 

Lydia Lane

 

Janet Chandler

 

Hitched

 

'Jack' bow: Hogan still a hero in Oz

 

Mode member makes a switch

 

'Grief' good; 'Winter' warms; 'Sirens' seductive

 

Births

 

Allen named VP at Disney-MGM

 

PBS' Duggan plans election blitz

 

Col picks Schlesinger for acquisitions

 

First Media seeking speedy ruling on PTAR

 

Spielberg, Lucas top rights sesh

 

'Thumbelina' payroll

 

Czech pic production biz looks to Western markets

 

Gibson's co. to back 'Selection'

 

Wells recalled as exec sportsman

 

Sequels sink at B.O.

 

Disney's day of recovery

 

Exec shuffle

 

5th net gains ground as WB tunes in Miami

 

Short takes

 

Gaylord in Nashville NBA bid

 

Scripps finishes buy

 

Disney stock steady

 

Court denies TW appeal of reinstated fraud suit

 

Home Shopping adds credit card

 

Benedik said to be exiting Fox

 

Kingstone VP of Baldwin's prod'n company

 

Vet set to pass $ 100 mil; Cher gets 'Faithful'

 

Classic Sports Network steps up to cable plate

 

Eric Eisner to ankle Island post

 

Indies are pilot light

 

Ritzer senior VP at Davidson firm

 

Himelfarb heads to CBS

 

Olympian Moe picks pic pact

 

Obst taps Hooper VP

 

Mann prepping De Niro-Pacino pic

 

Daily Variety Film Box Office Report

 

Friends mourn Wells, others after chopper crash

 

Fox Kids Net flush with ad $

 

Warners rekindles Arc tale

 

Cox, S'west Bell call it quits

 

Alphabet wins 4th in a row

 

FCC won't take blame

 

Universal buys spec 'Mad City'

 

GoodTimes in movie biz

 

Par files Buchwald appeal

 

Media Vision's Yee exits for indie route

 

FCC bars cable ops from basic scrambling

 

FX talker taps Wallace

 

Datebook

 

Showbiz stox sizzle

 

Humanitas deadline April 15

 

N.Y. smash 'Stomp' hits UCLA Sept. 30

 

correx

 

Exec shuffle

 

NCAA lifts CBS to early ratings lead

 

AT&T/McCaw bid blocked

 

Financial briefs

 

Landmark ups Jones

 

Par affils at 36 as 3 more jump on 5th web wagon

 

To the point ... sports b'casting ... no good!

 

Birth

 

TV violence monitors asked for their plans

 

Oz report eyes Asia

 

Reuters joins Russian web

 

Cavada head of class

 

Malaysia may review sat ban

 

WB gets ready to play it again

 

Willis finds new script to 'Die' for

 

Hollywood Bowl offers Salonen, Weill, Bugs

 

CBS, ABC tap 'Beethoven,' 'Willy' for kidvid skeds

 

Bowl sets jazz slate

 

Producer Lurie buys Eagles team

 

Lollapalooza hitches ride on superhighway

 

Fox mulls 'Soup' lite, says it's not hot

 

County locates liason

 

John-Joel tour sets stadium stops

 

Exec shuffle

 

Financial briefs

 

AT&T hopes to save McCaw merger

 

TCI plans 2-way net

 

Q2 news boosts QVC stock 11%

 

'List' tops $ 100 mil overseas

 

Valenti hails ratings veto

 

Internet now your one-stop promo shop

 

AFI benefits from 'Entertainment III'

 

Raitt's 'Longing' tops music charts

 

Heartland Fest seeks entries

 

Hollywood TV production chart

 

Sundance does Tokyo

 

Madonna show hits homevid

 

Torstar hopes cablers will eat up Popcorn

 

'Flintstones' PG; 'Girls' earns its R

 

'Lions' to race from TV to vid

 

Marlon Riggs

 

Pat Harper

 

Ginny Simms

 

Tass to helm cyclist biopic

 

Walk noms sought

 

Datebook

 

ABC warns its affiliates to toe line on football

 

'Iron' hot; Kopelson strikes

 

Lawmaker's infopike view focuses on entrepreneurs

 

Numbers box

 

Actors Studio, New School team

 

Bossa dances to Signboard

 

Telefilm Canada budget still steady

 

FX buys Oz 'Home' serial

 

New Oz TV Star is born

 

Russian vid exec murdered

 

KCBS, KNBC set for Martin bidding war

 

Golly! A 'Gomer Pyle' movie

 

'Halcyon Days' for Polygram

 

Notaro makes Tristar move

 

Reiser says hello to 'Love' pic

 

Euro film/TV revamp looks good on paper

 

New Line taps Abell-Venit

 

Actors check in to 'Hope'

 

Short takes

 

Danson on hiatus after wrapping 2 pics

 

'Lies' lags

 

correx

 

CBS, Fox in scrimmage

 

Lifetime spaces out N.Y. studios

 

TCI opens new digital TV facility

 

Cannell seeks sugar daddy

 

Braun pumps up TV prod'n slate

 

UK/LA art fest gets royal opening act

 

UIP to fly 'Ladybird' in U.K.

 

With 'Rivers,' Caledonia goes on expansion track

 

Sternberg moves to Daybreak

 

Genii nods April 29

 

Emmys mail changes

 

'Thunder' crashes choppy syndie party

 

Acclaim makes two deals: arcades, comics

 

Film 'Homage' names cast

 

Lenfest settles copyright suit

 

Slater adds reps

 

NBC, Fox map out sweeps

 

TW audio slate has sci-fi slant

 

Exec shuffle

 

U.S. fuels Bertelsmann

 

Lee, Sayles pix to world preem at S.F. Fest

 

Madonna's material boost for 'Late'

 

Richard Davies

 

Nizaemon Kataoka

 

Joe Mays

 

TCI plans global musicvid channel

 

Shochiku's dueling pix

 

Malaysian official slams Spielberg stance

 

Carlton ups Walmsley

 

'Rolonda' first talker to nab Tonya interview

 

Tony splits revivals

 

KCBS taps Navarro editorials chief

 

Short takes

 

Noir-crazy helmer John Dahl keeps genre alive

 

Eastwood to rejoin 'Stars' after Wells funeral

 

Reviews

The Abc Monday Night Movie Beyond Obsession

The Counterfeit Contessa

Abraham

Revolutions

Christy

Royce

South Central

Spoils of War

Second Cousin, Once Removed

Cultivating Charlie

See You Tomorrow, Mario

Good Night, Irene

Nina Darling

Just You & Me

Beyond the Sky

The Hands

The Scent of Yvonne

King of the Airwaves

Monkeys in Paradise

The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed

Tarch Trip

The Sorrow, Like a Withdrawn Dagger, Left My Heart

On Tour

Crazy for You

New York Rock

The Tragedy of Richard II

Brothers of the Brush

The Scarlet Letter

Us3

South Central

To Save the Children

Boris Godunov

Frontline the Kevorkian File

Craig Chaquico

Hugh Masekela; Miriam Makeba

James; Texas

Van Halen; Collective Soul

The Scent of Yvonne le Parfum D'Yvonne

Lifestories -- Families in Crisis a Body to Die for: The Aaron Henry Story

King of the Airwaves Louis 19, le Roi Des Ondes

The American Experience America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

The Night Angel

The Tragedy of Richard II

The Session

David's Mother

Spoils of War

Shadow of Obsession

Doc's Full Service

Second Cousin, Once Removed

A Business Affair

Holy Matrimony

Medea

The Wood Demon

Thicker Than Water

Alma's Rainbow

Middlemarch


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