Table of Contents
Week of 05/21/1998

Articles

Disney's Staggs wins CFO post; boss exits

 

Interscope ups Gumpert

 

Carlton 1st-half profit up

 

TW ruling Court TV?

 

ASCAP fetes pop scribes

 

Drummer bummer

 

UTA gala celebrates fall TV season

 

'Fear & Loathing' takes Gotham trip

 

Brooks box still tops

 

Euro 'Gram Prix

 

Jordan & Woolley near D'Works deal

 

'Frasier' wins final face-off

 

UPN shakes up fall sked

 

Bird failure zaps NPR but few syndies hurt

 

Fox fancies 'Hill' for Tuesdays

 

Early 'Godzilla' B.O. giant

 

McCormack adds 'Crime,' 'Crawford'

 

Warner Bros. ups Smokler, Kirsh

 

Tierney toplines Shepard's 'Oxygen'

 

USA buys 13-pic pack

 

Kleiser mad for Muppets

 

WB hires See's 'Handyman'

 

Studios in ABC's vise

 

WGA leaders urge contract approval

 

Ad buyers approve Eye web's moves

 

TenPercenteries

 

Rosenblum on 'Povich' team

 

Cosgrove in Family

 

The Boards

 

Premiere ups Kitchin

 

Poly want a troupe?

 

More cable TV mergers expected trend in Asia

 

StageWest to close after 31 seasons

 

Producers prepare for next season

 

'Beauty' or bust

 

Miramax plumes rights for pair of French pics

 

Urbanworld Fest expands

 

Cage, Scorsese may team: Viggo in 'Psycho'

 

Friends, family recall fond Sinatra memories

 

Fox tops ABC to place No. 2 in demos

 

Cineplex sale set

 

TCI Satellite Ent. quarter loss climbs

 

Bell Atlantic sets BET promo push

 

Clear channel ups More offer

 

SFX Ent. offers 7 mil new shares

 

Nelvana earnings up

 

Miramax inks 'Good' duo

 

Springer gets horse-whipped

 

Celebs support ban on paparazzi excess

 

Davis sells 'Romance'

 

Vessey added to drama starring Beatty, Keaton

 

Vanguard appoints new vice presidents

 

NBC, affils amenable

 

L.A. mag's Buzz buy approved by court

 

Joseph Norden, 84

 

Harry Drucker, dead at 91

 

Gene Fowler, Jr., dead at 80

 

Philip Barry, Jr. dies at 74

 

'Tap' trio enlists in 'Soldiers'

 

Holly joins casts of 'Sunday,' 'Entropy'

 

Thesps reach 'Settlement'

 

Col to fan flames for Besson's 'Joan of Arc'

 

'Corpus Christi' canceled

 

Fox bows 'bold' fall schedule

 

Good news for KNBC

 

Fox, WB tie as top TV suppliers

 

Lizard launch lifts $8.4 mil

 

Par's new 'Passion' for Lakeshore

 

Seagram sings new tune

 

Hicks tops bids for Pulitzer

 

Making a music monolith

 

BT to divest U.K. cable ops

 

Booktalk bridges readers and writers

 

World Briefs

 

Live TV may shut down

 

Azteca, Par to get 'Real'

 

Simon employees reading cliffhanger

 

Dutch ads pay rent

 

Stream, OpenTV in box pact

 

Australis media fini

 

Telecom writ gives Brits fit

 

Hope, Redford get needed R&R

 

FCC cable order overturned

 

World Briefs

 

Asian slump hurts Japan's DirecTV

 

Report cautions Dutch on cutting TV ads

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'Impact' deep o'seas

 

Iwerks appeals Imax ruling

 

Jilted EMI facing future sans suitors

 

Street toasts deal

 

Students in spotlight

 

MGM 'War' pic gets name change

 

San Diego fest will open on 'Evil' note

 

'Mighty' opener for Newport

 

Classics unspool at pic palaces

 

IFP scripting honor makes 'Nice' choice

 

Screenplays, manuscripts win prizes

 

Euro regulators nix Kirch, CLT merger

 

'Oprah' tops sweeps

 

Modern Times to bow Baltic pay TV service

 

Montie Montana, dead at 87

 

'Nazi Gold' preems tonight

 

Scandi TV partnership to expand

 

Frons joins SBS as programming head

 

Byron Allen tapped to host L.A. Emmys

 

McTiernan nears 'Crown'

 

KCAL a sweep sleeper

 

Limpin' lizard takes $55 mil

 

Indie scene turns 'Psycho'

 

DreamWorks off 'Geisha' pic

 

B'way to catch 'Fever'

 

SFX keeps expanding with Oakdale buy

 

Defining 'indie' for overseas market

 

Hicks, Muse spree begins in S. America

 

ABC to stay with yellow ad campaign

 

U needs to chill out on porcine portrayals

 

Russia taps media chief

 

Time Warner trumpets 'NewsStand'

 

It's still primetime for the Gatsby of agents

 

'Prisoner' again tops exclusives

 

Sony Music, Virgin subsid in co-venture

 

Russia's Most buys stake in Israel's Maariv

 

Picture 'Perfect'

 

Prague's Galaxie to add six screens

 

Gov't OKs sale of Asia TV

 

CBS Corp. selling unit for $265 mil

 

Kirch,CLT-Ufa deal unsteady

 

World Briefs

 

Gleeson set to drive 'Limo'

 

O'seas B.O. cools up

 

Tojo biopic scores

 

MGM ready for 'Tea' as Zeffirelli firms sked

 

It's a HighReach for Cinar

 

TW, Liberty make case for Court TV

 

Cinema Expo to fete Cecchi Gori

 

Pix widening aim

 

Shaw claims half of Western Com'cations

 

Gore to give TV a good rating

 

Comcast to leapfrog MediaOne

 

Village Roadshow taps Bierman

 

Italo Cannes due

 

Televisa to divest from Univision

 

Disneys plan station sale

 

Good China on table

 

Shields fights back after faux Mail tale

 

Luketic inks three-year pact with Miramax

 

Woodard inks 'Neat' pact

 

Gibson's new screen appeal

 

U ups Zeier to sr. veep for post

 

Hollywood class action split

 

Launch of Divx discs delayed

 

A&E skeds 'Mysteries'

 

MCA keeps Mancini legacy in the family

 

New Jersey: New bill adds exemptions to taxes on prod'n

 

Pedde segues to Par TV VP

 

Warner music and vid promos tune together

 

Studios spat over

 

TVNZ profits cut in half

 

WB ups Giordano

 

Women's fest panel slated

 

Shakespeare & Co. mounts new season

 

Court rules for RTL in license flap

 

MGM Intl. TV taps Armstrong

 

SF Lesbian & Gay Fest sets sked

 

Seinfeld puts out 'Last' comedy album

 

Reviews

The King and I

Illuminata

Judgment in Flames

Fast Food

Count Me Out

Rhapsody in Bloom

Killer

Beastcops

Pep Squad

What I Did For Love

Titanic Town

August 32nd on Earth

Life on Earth

Of Freaks and Men

Khrustaliov, My Car!

It Came From The Sky

Head On

Astrud Gilberto

Power Plays

Illuminata

Slums of Beverly Hills

Eternity and a Day

Velvet Goldmine

Love Is the Devil -- Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Illuminata - 'Illuminata' Spotlights Love

Goodbye Lover

Melody for a Hustler

The General - Biopic Captures Irish Crime Lord

Tropic of Emerald

Sitcom

The Hole

Slums of Beverly Hills

Hope Floats

The Last Days of Disco - 'Disco' Swings, But with a Few Missteps

Velvet Goldmine - 'Velvet' Mines Glam Rock Era

The Mighty - 'Mighty' Needs No Crutches

Kevin's Bed

The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy

Icarus

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

Godzilla

Van Morrison; Joni Mitchell; Bob Dylan

For You

Unexpected Tenderness

The Last Days of Disco

Test is the Game

A Piece of My Heart

A Bright, Shining Lie

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

Garbage

Bjork

The Real Inspector/Black Comedy

Tiny Alice

Garbage

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

The Mighty


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