Table of Contents
Week of 11/26/1998

Articles

5 get Franco-U.S. culture scholarships

 

Short fest bestows kudos

 

UCLA offers sitcom forums

 

Theater concern

 

IFP extends Berlin deadline

 

'Prince' of a plan

 

Breaking barriers

 

Carlton calls on Cain

 

Senator Film going public

 

Exex upped at 20th TV

 

High Spanish honor goes to Armendariz

 

Hicks Muse to invest in Europe with $1.5 bil fund

 

Granada grinning about performance

 

Growing pains

 

New day dawning

 

Korean distribs set to reinvest in pics

 

U.K. pols give up plan for voluntary film levy

 

Victory for cable news

 

Flip Wilson dies at 64

 

Harry Fox Jr.

 

East West Players to 'Dance'

 

McCormick exits as Lifetime prexy

 

Eye, Peacock top narrow sweep

 

MGM Distrib ups Lomis

 

Deadline looms for NABET strikers

 

Radio City kicks up cable heels

 

ABC sibling grabs 'Hercules'

 

'3rd Rock' duo pacts with C-W

 

Rosen on board at Broder

 

Miramax taps Gruenberg

 

Spikes sees pic future in Urbanworld

 

TW announces split amid soaring stock

 

Super CD week

 

'Oprah' sweeps past 'Springer'

 

Sandler signs New Line pact

 

Bonham-Carter to talk 'Dirty'

 

Davis Panzer gets Advance for 3 pix

 

Fierce competition marks O&O skeds

 

Bugs leave bacon achin'

 

Theater Wing giving grants

 

'Rosie' kicks off Belgian film fest

 

Exposing the cable fable

 

William P. Gallagher

 

Valerie Hobson

 

Lonnie Pitchford

 

Hope Cameron

 

Marie Louise Beverly Miller

 

Sabbatini killed in car crash

 

'Bee' flies in Turin

 

World Briefs

 

Channels ankle start of Swedish digital

 

Handicap increase

 

Controversy dogs 'Rizo'

 

'Elizabeth' reigns in niche B.O.

 

Exec Shuffle

 

CNN/SI finds home on DirecTV

 

Creatives fete Merchant, Ivory

 

Gijon fest adopts 'Orphans'

 

'Babe' brings home bacon o'seas

 

Stars eyeing Havana

 

Bows set for 2 new VH1 series

 

Ex-manager hits Jewel, mom with $10 mil lawsuit

 

Nippon ISPs, org ink music royalty pact

 

Legit 'In and Out' planned

 

It's curtains for Livent workers

 

News Corp. sells sats

 

SAG awards noms' deadline Wednesday

 

Carlton to nab PFE's ITC library

 

Miramax, Imax may mix

 

MSNBC will re-ink Imus

 

Eye, Peacock sweep sweeps

 

NABET picks up health care

 

Inside Moves

 

TenPercenteries

 

CBS buoys McKairnes

 

Becker shareholders OK infusion of cash

 

Kirch bows pay TV firm

 

SFX closes the Door

 

Hill ankles Clein + White

 

Peacock takes stake in Internet's iVillage

 

HSN goes network shopping in Italy

 

Owning the street

 

Peacock's 'Passions' set for July

 

'Bicentennial' rebounds while Carr rallies

 

Gregorian upped at WB Int'l TV

 

No more Silver lining at U

 

Telepiu buys pic pack

 

'Bloopers' moves to ABC

 

Murray ups exex

 

B'Way's full table

 

U.K. pols give up plan for film levy

 

Dye hosts 'Heroes' for military cabler

 

Writers Bloc presents Boyle reading

 

Oscar Credits

 

Miami biz mints $2.3 bil

 

TV Land hit by crime wave with 30 series

 

Karen Hale Wookey

 

NAB, news directors fight rebuttal rules

 

Silence lands e.tv in trouble

 

MTV India chooses base

 

World Briefs

 

Berlin fests fetes MacLaine

 

Gaumont surprise

 

EU drops probe of state aid used by pubcasters

 

Venevision nabs Manchete library rights

 

Exec Shuffle

 

DGA, Sundance team on TV specials

 

'Dance card full

 

Digital TV launch cuts into Carlton's profits

 

EIDC taps Wells

 

L.A.'s smart move

 

Viacom seeks to redeem $1.5 billion in public debt

 

Cine Mag moves, expands

 

Broadcast.com, Amazon link Web sites in marketing plan

 

Supercanal expands overseas operations

 

FCC vs. Congress

 

Livent lists loans

 

Thomas rehabs with Col's 'Days'

 

Showbiz lawyer Groman dies

 

Phillips to bedevil Dietrich on B'way

 

HBO enlists for WWII mini

 

'Forgive' sees second season

 

Katz set to preside over MSNBC's 'Judge & Jury'

 

'Dancemaker' gets picked up

 

China cheers 'Ryan'

 

Miramax scales 'Everest' for TV, video

 

Fitzgerald upped at WB Records

 

Bening talks 'Sex'

 

Bates on Acad governors board

 

'Waterboy' buoys Nov. B.O.

 

Fox in turkey trot

 

SAG/AFTRA merger foes fire salvos

 

NBC shuffles sitcoms

 

Turner twins pay big bucks for pic packs

 

Toback finds 'Love in Paris'

 

Trimark buys 'Happiness'

 

DeGeneres, Heche: Are they staying or leaving?

 

Calfo to head new arm as BVTV works on body

 

MTV greenlights a slate on wilder side

 

Mouse nibbling away pacts

 

Chernin to be honored as Caucus exec of year

 

R&B org to honor Hooker

 

'Generation X' author turns to Pantheon

 

Scottis take run at 'Skins

 

WB ups Nesic to strategic VP

 

Faves for the ages

 

Ovitz's new biz AMG ready for unveiling

 

USA, Seder ink for comedy

 

Italo digital TV bloc stalls

 

Anthony Salvatore

 

Jack Haskell

 

Arnold Jacobs

 

Arnot E. Walker

 

Gene Page

 

Sally Cobb

 

Anne Simons

 

Reviews

A Bug's Life

Understanding Jane

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

Love Fools

In All Innocence

Boomtown

Only a Kingdom

Britannicus

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick

See Julie Again

Anna Magdalena

Pain Is ...

An Affair

Nothing in the Fridge

The Deer's Room

Jinnah

The Fishing Trip

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

The Phantom of the Opera

In All Innocence

Understanding Jane

Shot Through the Heart

Love Fools

Beyond Paradise

Xi'an's Finest

Day of the Full Moon

Death on a Full Moon Day

An Evening of Shakespeare

Ali

NYPD Blue: Danny Boy

Before He Wakes

The Candyskins

Stefon Harris

Houdini


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