Table of Contents
Week of 05/28/1998

Articles

Via Digital wants more exposure with Playboy

 

Merger blocked

 

Italo pic forum set

 

Argentina bans satcaster

 

S. Africa preps new channel

 

Durwoods move forward on AMC stock offering

 

USA sells two S.D. stations

 

Unavision affil tops

 

A&E orders five docus

 

CTW taps Scott

 

EMI may stay solo act

 

Hicks goes Argentine

 

'Manchurian' revolt

 

Gore slams TV for spate of violence

 

'Kurt' to bow at docu fest

 

Encyclopedia kills filmmaker

 

'Sanders' sans post-HBO market

 

Fishburne readies 'Riff Raff'; Sturges returns

 

Mandalay inks deal with Imax

 

Landmark plans 7-screen arthouse in Chicago mall

 

'Godzilla' TV coin

 

NBC's 'Will' takes cue from 'Ellen'

 

'Witches' on White Way?

 

Leo denies Lions' share

 

New Line, Woods in Independent pact

 

Mandel show drops sidekick

 

Eye plucks Peacock

 

'Frank' to tour sans Lavin

 

Ratings expectations not high for CNN mags

 

Windham Hill brands new image

 

Family looks for laughs

 

Debuts rock charts

 

'Dr. Quinn' vidpic healthy

 

Kudrow joining cast of WB's 'Analyze This'

 

WB to cross-promo music on homevids

 

McComb, Cole join 'Clubs'

 

Garibaldi plans three more pics

 

Par ups Heppel to sr. legal VP

 

Forston to Palm Pictures

 

Wolf Mankowitz, dead at 73

 

WB nabs 'Underachiever' for Outlaw

 

Fox Family adopts two

 

Showtime fetes 'Grateful Nation'

 

TenPercenteries

 

N.J. offers prod'n tax lures

 

WMA fetes fall season with a bash

 

Reel Books brings store to theaters

 

Web site books 'em

 

Class is out in Garrison

 

Actor-comedian Phil Hartman, dead at 49

 

'Dr. Quinn' vidpic healthy

 

2-minute warning

 

Booker, Kean to 'Kill'

 

Kirch Group kibosh no minus for Canal

 

Lizard toy sale limp

 

CBS head hints of changes for affils

 

Cadence turns on 'Taillights'

 

Thomas has 'Hearts'

 

Trailers get real in Sony sound spots

 

McNally's 'Christi' is resurrected

 

B'way losing its 'Child'

 

PBS docu series new CAA clients

 

'Zilla' chills exhib stox

 

Cage, Hanson in 'Family' way

 

Buyers balk at Polygram pix price

 

Touchstone prexy will walk De Line

 

Channel says Shalom

 

Canal Plus gets OK for 9 p.m. pic slot

 

H'w'd mourns Hartman

 

Russian ransom revealed

 

Euro pic nods win OK

 

Cable guys' club

 

PPV underdog wins

 

Court rejects 'fair use' defense in c'right case

 

'Moscow' believes in sequels

 

Int'l lenseers guild taps Dibie prexy

 

Alliance year lively

 

'Egypt' inspires 2 CDs

 

Sokurov plans WWII picture

 

At Cannes '98, Dogma 95 has its day

 

The high price of hype

 

Langella joins cast of Polanski's 'Gate'

 

Greenhunt, Ein bridge $ and future foreign sales

 

Lion hikes Gleason

 

'Dr. Quinn' vidpic healthy

 

Smith in dual role at Fox

 

Eastwood pix are family affair

 

Gibson up for pic offers

 

CBS O&Os re-up for Par's 'ET'

 

Telefilm shells out last of grant money

 

German Nick net folds

 

Kushner-Locke in sat venture

 

Deep Int'l 'Impact'

 

Kirch may sell Springer

 

Warner Homevid buoys Sanders

 

C-Span chief pans digital must-carry

 

RAI nets solid profit in '97

 

ProSieben profits rise

 

Daytime downshift

 

'Titanic,' 'Men in Black,' 'Austin Powers' top MTV nods

 

Quake pic shakin' at WB

 

Williams, Patinkin in 'Elmo'

 

KCAL leads local Emmys

 

$20 mil dent in Livent

 

Army to revisit Playa Vista plan

 

Seventh Art nabs 'Nudity'

 

Time mag picks century's top artists, entertainers

 

Aiellos team for 'Dust'

 

Lizard logarithm: hyping equals sniping

 

NBC appoints Nike, Starbucks alum VP

 

Alphabet shuffle

 

High price of hype

 

CTW veepee hired by HBO

 

Lombardo's 'Macbeth' taps Reuben

 

American Oceans fetes Azoff, King

 

Honoring Harry is Shearer pleasure

 

Gotham gets down

 

AmEx inks to sponsor VH1's 'Hard Rock Live'

 

'Slam' stars to take new IFP honor

 

Stone eyeing 'Muse' role

 

Spice Girls sans 1: Halliwell powers out

 

NFL deal set

 

Lizard legs wobbly

 

Wheatcroft exits ShoWest position

 

Rate row

 

FTC OK's Random House sale

 

Japan sets 2003 for digital TV

 

'Disco' bops to top of exclu B.O.

 

Fest goes annual to mixed reviews

 

World Briefs

 

Rio-bound for script lab

 

TV Asahi announces sat investment

 

Brits' Barker call

 

Garabino's Detour

 

Film Roman taps Kaufman

 

Cox closes Long Island deal

 

'99 cable TV confab site set for L.A.

 

TCI Int'l's cable Irish sweepstakes

 

TCI's controller Bracken retiring

 

Lizard mauls Malaysia

 

Ticketmaster and Yahoo! seal deal

 

Reptile, reduced

 

Sony sees big pic on Twain with Imax

 

Polygram a billion-dollar baby

 

Zaloom to helm 'Last Leg'

 

NBC scores an NBA Bulls-eye

 

Ohlmeyer-MacDonald spat getting 'Dirty'

 

Boffo B'way season

 

HBO over the 'Moon'

 

Record roadblock

 

Corrente, Caruso leap to film 'Fence Jumpers'

 

May B.O. up 2% over '97

 

Florida fest to preem 10

 

L.A. Women's Fest opens with 'Dance'

 

Helmers set for SAG docu

 

Coppola-WB faceoff gets under way

 

ABC News taps Coffey

 

UA catches 'Betty' pitch

 

York, Maverick pact on vids

 

Inside Moves

 

'Blind Faith' launches Human Rights fest

 

Web to web: Can't we get along?

 

Sony double-take

 

MGM TV taps Holmes

 

Studios USA Pix ups McBride

 

Greystone unveils unit for history dox

 

Fireworks backs CanWest bid

 

Alliance ups telepic output by four

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Trimark sues over 'Weeks'

 

Howard not sweating 'Ed's' competish

 

Study expects 4-yr Euro exhib'n boom

 

Poland's digital split

 

MTV-Italia on fast track for profit

 

World Briefs

 

Alliance Releasing taps Sherry for VP

 

Star's Ch. V heads for CIS

 

'Sale' sale sails

 

IFP Gotham Award to Lumet

 

Drudge won't budge

 

DirecTV Japan to slash prices

 

MGM's Leo finds his voice

 

Radio signals fade

 

Pre-merger Loews shows net profit off

 

TW's billion $ bond selloff

 

Guess who's coming to Academy tribute

 

KCOP nabs Christmas Parade Rights

 

Peacock slam dunks competish

 

Mouse House bare

 

Upfront increases modest

 

Russo talks 'Daughter'

 

Rosenberg enters management

 

Arnold sports pair of pix

 

Latest round of Don vs. Norm

 

Fox ups Parker

 

London Films heading 'West'

 

Mann plan thinning

 

Cardoso Drissi upped to senior VP at Par TV

 

Ulrich logs on 'Takedown'

 

ABC asks affils to kick in $30 mil

 

Stern on rise at 20th TV

 

George Wright dies at 77

 

Actors' Equity Assn. adds to council

 

MOMA wants to add 200 pix

 

Sony, Loews in Spanish plex pact

 

Col points to 'Fingerpost'

 

Whitfield joining Hamilton in 'Color'

 

'Ashes' courts Richardson

 

Playwright Zimmerman earns MacArthur grant

 

Ward in WB script pact

 

Tony gives 'cow town' theater boost at 20 years

 

Sinatra kids absent from Vegas gala

 

Reviews

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; Four Piece Suit

Ronnie Mack's Barndance: Jimmie Rodgers Tribute

Eric Clapton

Dan Bern

I Got the Hook Up

Eric Clapton

Ronnie Mack's Barndance: Jimmie Rodgers Tribute

West Beyrouth

Thicker Than Blood

Hurrah at Last

A Perfect Murder

Almost Heroes

The Simple Life

Flowers of Shanghai

Pauline and Turgenev

The Fastest Clock in the Universe

Flyovers

The Lady's Not for Burning

Nasty Little Secrets

Tiny Alice

Major Barbara

Love's Fire

By George

Anxiety

For Sale

Enough Already

Bedrooms & Hallways

Pep Squad

Life on Earth

Eternity and a Day

The School of Flesh

Tango

Of Freaks and Men

West Beirut

Last Night

Dr. Akagi - Pic Examines Country Doctor

Class Trip

Island, Alicia

Divine

All for One

Requiem

Miss Monday

Widespread Panic; G. Love & Special Sauce

Heading East: The Musical

Ojai Festival

Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City

Sex and the City

Lawyers

The Seagull

Sex and the City


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