Broderick eyes 'Election'

TW's Adler upped to communications VP

Pearson TV Int'l taps Loze

Dodi checks into Ent. Asylum

Fox fights vid exec's defection

Mann ups Davy to sr. VP, head buyer

'Perdita' in San Sebastian lineup

Barrandov ankling distrib biz

Doerges to top Leavesden outfit

All American inks TV deal with Ozma

CBS inks Kellie Martin

PPV glitches worry DirecTV subs

Syndie bench mark

Loews loses Loekses

'Angel' puts $90 mil touch on cable nets

Rosenblum options Rand novel 'Living'

Hal Goodman

Telepiu, Polygram pact

Dividends for ducats

Northam joins 'Gloria' cast

Cash to carry panel word of Web piracy

Fox's 'Ally' debut builds on 'Melrose' momentum

Emmy Watch

Katz, Mouse in battle over 'bifurcation' cheese

Fox TV party's full of 'Hope St.'

Preemgoers get 'Going'

Hoffman tax trial begins

Stroud joins MGM Distrib

Panel to probe Padden, Smith on digital definition

Curly Ray Cline

No Microsoft deal, Sega sez

Canal+ cables up

Cohen reups at MGM TV

Diaz leads KABC race to replace McRee

Edwards checks into 'Hope'

Mandrell gives up song for screen

'Parker' parks Paymer, Henry

Lottery $$ flowing

Lotus Weinstock

Strand eyeing 'Dogs' for stroll around U.S.

Hitched

E! adds feed on West Coast

Todd-AO inks global pact

J.P. Morgan taps Rossoff for media

Dick Clark earnings jump 15% for year

Carville, Matalin stump for talker

Funeral fixes TV nation

Archer lines up leads in 'Wife,' 'Mom'

Quinlan set to join Travolta for 'Action'

H'wood Pix pacts pair

Mann's Village plan

Carsey, Wayans pact

Disney moves to oust Katzenberg's lawyers

The Rupert Report

Medusa Film taps Pedranzini

Spain's CSD, E! launching Euro channel

Births

'Ice Storm' to come to laid-back Mill Valley

Nick extends alliance with 'Kenan' duo

Alliance goes native

Famous, Hugely team up

HBO in the mood for 13 segs of 'Sex'

BMI in cyber-pact

Meredith dies at 88

Tax evasion trial begins for Hoffman

BAFTA-LA funds Bruins in Di's honor

Partyers play 'Game'

Davola tapped to run show on 'Keenen'

Shue joins CAA in film/TV dept.

Hitachi's digital disc packed with memory

Cecchi Gori TV exec shake-up looming

Kopelson honored at Deauville

Chris Eigeman gets 'Disco' fever

Spector to head THX marketing

Brillstein-Grey taps Blume its first CFO

Travel plans change

Master P's 'Ghetto D' tops U.S. album chart

Emmy Watch

Jacor buys 'Dr. Laura'

1st Latin Midem off to good start

Goodman sets feature debut

WB TV closes in on CBS' Selleck sitcom

Westwood developing double multiplex vision

NATAS still aghast

Stern burns up Canucks

MPAA promotes duo

DVD duo team on ads

ESPN, Patrick go extra innings

Medavoy talk turns up Heat

Di-themed 'Datelines' power NBC

Bonton enters Poland

Telcos lobby for cable limits

Regal lowers sights on third-qtr. results

Unapix picks up Italo co-prod 'Love'

Harvey, Saban set new 'Casper'

Roberts, Grant set for Brit pic

Sony picks up 'Marie'

Corrections

AMC's plex reflex

Brillstein-Grey taps Blume its first CFO

Show throws curveball

'World of Sports' wider

RAI, A&E ink for Historia

7 up for Jo'burg net

Favreau, Fox ink deal

WB snares McAlary's 'Murderer'

'Wedding' star Diaz at altar for two pix

PBS, NBC top news Emmys

ABC shelves 'Top,' changes 'Soul' slot

Forget the royals, Di's in loftier crowd now

French confer showbiz nods

UPN pacts with Belo to build affil cache

Hitched

Viacom to shed USA, Sci-Fi

Content law still a draw at HRTS gig

New 'Carnival' wraps prod'n

KLSX KO's Rachtman for fist-fight

Fox buys TV rights to BV trio

Brentwood address poses challenge

Studio district mounts drive for entertainment 'enterprise zone'

L.B.'s little-known legacy: 'H'wood by the sea'

Irregular cash flow factors into industry homebuying

Prisa makes D.C. plea

Mexico's media unites; schedules 1st telethon

DirecTV co-signers seek 91 channels

Short Takes

Young at helm of Dominion

CBS, Emmys reunite

George Schaefer, 'Hall of Fame' force, dies at 76

CBS battles FCC's Stern fine

Touchstone, Foster ink 'Plum' film deal

Corrections

NBC eyes $1 bil Hicks, Muse pact

Mixing business, pleasure

Burns Trust donates to UCLA, USC

'B.H. 90210' preem primo

Miramax picks 'Rose'

Arthouse labels busy at Toronto

Leo hunts Lion's share

Babylon revisited

Players' escape hutch

Kat Valenzuela

Births

'Ma vie' cleans up at Sarajevo fest

Judd, Freeman wow Deauville fest auds

Regal loop growing by 78 screens

New set-top box, partners highlight WebTV's campaign

Streisand, King World pact

Simonian's last straw at WM

Beckinsale eyes 'Palace'

Guber takes TV partner

Liquid landmarks distinguish L.A.

Stars take a shot at paparazzi

Fox's Thursday bow weak

Cinematheque, biz colleagues fete Travolta

Hanky panky' prompts suit over Aqua's 'Barbie'

Dolby taps Pinkston VP, exhib relations

B.O. up in the 'Air'

Euro film acad apes Oscar video push

'Sunday' nabs top Deauville prize

Superhero makes 3-D splash

Tex Avery rides again

'Jay Jay, the Jet Plane' flies to U.S.

Porchlight to turn on 'Jay' to U.S. cable TV

Animated 'everykid' Arthur is poised for global stardom

Star kids: Vincent Berry

Star kids: Mae Whitman

Return of the retro rascals

'Crayon Box' kicks off Polygram's kids slate

Wimzie merch in pipeline

Critter country

WB's "Umptee-3" has Norman Lear's signature

It's fear and loathing time: A WGA election

Williams to be 'The Interpreter'

Iwanyk to WB prod'n VP

Helmers hope to hook distribs

Arenas set for helming debut

A Humongous hit

Fox's Loesch keeps one finger on the future

ABC hopes for virtual success

Pace's challenge

Gameshow hopes to 'Click' with teens

Teuton channels battle

Star kids: Jesse James

Tyke thesps find gigs galore

'Anastasia' kicks off Harper Active imprint

'Time' for Toons

Trio chirps new series

Mr. Joyce goes to Hollywood

Fast Forwarding to Video

The only 'Game' in town

Backstage at the Emmys

Disney bid to remove Katz lawyers nixed

Book buys on the horizon

Beyond maps world rights for Shum pic

Saban to unveil new Kangaroo

Euro toons fit FCC mandates

Circling the globe

Star kids: Natanya Ross

Star kids: Alex D. Linz

Star kids: Meagan Good

'Noddy' comes to U.S.

Nick bows new 3-D technology

Peacock flock made to 'Order'

Instrumental Virgin

Oprah soap opera hits deadline

Valenti: C'right move stuck on music fray

Connolly to host Britannia Awards

Judge rules Yapp can keep his new job

Oz milks 'Passion' for pianists

'Lolita' tryst proves costly

The ins and outs of 'Ellen'

Stars sing for tots

'Anastasia' to challenge the Mouse

Programming power house

Legend leaps to life

Southern Star launches toon startup Down Under

School regs toughen up for kid actors

NBC prefers its block live and educational

Gallic nets sanguine

How to influence casting agents

'Jolly' good move to Internet

WB's "Umptee-3" has Norman Lear's signature

Tooning King's life

Welcome to Variety Junior

Turner buys WB pic pack

Hoofers fete helmer Ross

'Violence' muscles into No. 1 atop exclusives

'ET' parties with Emmy

Polygram's maiden pic lands No. 1

W'house sells unit for $2.56 bil

Clinton set to tap Tristani for FCC

UPN delivers Valentine

Emmycast on CBS slips 6% from '96

Action, romance take world's B.O. by storm

Berger exits MTV, joins Fox Studios

Digital beam to bow

Comics relief: Saban eyes Marvel assets

Auds snared in ratings Web

KW, Sony close to 'Square' deal

Teller slims INDI

Epic eyes Anthony in Sony reshuffle

Oprah keeps talkin'

Tenpercenteries

Emmy attendees party the night away

'Frasier,' 'Dick' & Emmy

Gotham's Gurney has itch to distrib poker pic 'Bitch'

Seagram b'cast ads carry health warning

Gilles A. de Turenne

All American sale

Style & substance

Tool files suit to cut Volcano tie

How King got 'Her Groove'

U's sporting Rodkey's 'Ox'

Milnes in EIDC's affairs

Sony's gene genies irk watchdogs

Slamdance Fest calls for entries

MCA Music mining gold Dust in pub pact

DiCaprio inks 'Bombshell'

Mattlin answers MovieFone call

Exec Shuffle

Bert Gold

JoAnna Martin

Locomotion motors digitally into Spain

BBC's Phillis ankling post for Guardian

World Briefs

John's 'Candle' sells out

WB Stores taps new int'l VP

Luncheon kudos fete femmes

Sat. kidvid bow down in ratings

Valenti: Work together on Net

Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers

Tito Puente , King Chango

Clover

La Boheme

Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers

Paul Bley, Charlie Haden

David Byrne

Tito Puente , King Chango

The Apostle

Kenny Garrett Quartet

Nebraska

The Westing Game

The Weird Al Show

Kenny Garrett Quartet

Nebraska

The Westing Game

The Weird Al Show

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca

The Hanging Garden

The Big One

Michael Hayes

Mrs. Dalloway

Kiss the Girls

Michael Hayes

Chinese Box

One Under

The Game

The Tom Show

Chronicle

The North End

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Hana-Bi

The Edge

Wings of the Dove

The Winter Guest

Gummo

Eve's Bayou

The Children of Heaven

Expectations

The Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Wintersleepers

Gadjo Dilo

Henry Fool

The Accident

The Gregory Hines Show

George & Leo

413 Hope Street

George & Leo

The Kingdom II

Henry Fool

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars Von Trier

Disco Pigs

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hard Times

The Gregory Hines Show

Our Betters

Michael Hayes

Ovosodo

Keep Cool

Suicide Kings

The Locusts

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