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Week of 05/14/1999

Articles

Witt to address USC grads

 

U applies for 2nd German web

 

Divorce Italian style

 

Gates eyes Telekom stake

 

U balms enigmatic Brit hero of WWII

 

Springer grabs GRB

 

Crane's, Coen's 'Epic' tale eyes Broadway

 

McLean voted Writers Guild exec director

 

Cablevision posts net drop in quarter

 

Int'l multichannel ad revs up 23%

 

'Nanny' exits winner

 

Britton joins Replay as EVP

 

Tabloids, docs raise Andrews' ire

 

Sitting pretty in Hollywood

 

Bill banning violent TV during kids hours fails

 

'Victim' nabs Zeta-Jones

 

Shandling suit sees a setback

 

Seagram to raise $2.5 bil

 

Hiring freeze part of ABC cost-cutting

 

From Herc to Kirk

 

Tonys taps thesps twice

 

Inside move

 

TV exex ready to change channels

 

WMA inks shock comic Green

 

Encore, Goldwyn Films ink cable TV output

 

NBC ready to wrap fall sked

 

Woody and Mickey still sport kid power

 

'X' marks McKellen's spot

 

WB may shift 'West'

 

Icon to guide Three Stooges biopic for ABC

 

MTV pins down 'Tag' spec

 

'Menace' maneuvers

 

Eureka goes Wild

 

Hall, Egan will say hello to 'Cabaret'

 

Kinowelt profits soar

 

The birth of Orpheus

 

LNT mulls Scandi partnership offer

 

'Powers' shag is shorn

 

Shinker quits Broadway

 

'Stupid' spec to warners

 

Marriage expected

 

Big Thursday widens NBC's sweeps lead

 

Castle Rock will use Jamie Foxx as 'Bait'

 

Berg says 'So' for Fox, Conundrum

 

Lefante ankles Fox for stork

 

Discovery draws up giant plan for 'Wings'

 

MP3.com uploads IPO

 

MGM's new CEO, COO give stock, speeches

 

Starcare sports 'Primetime'

 

Oxygen entices two ad execs

 

AMPAS awards German student

 

Awaiting spring zing

 

Seagram stox walk

 

AT&T buy helps TW revamp accounting

 

Exhib UA losses triple

 

Radio rides wave of ad revenue gains

 

Harvey takes big rev hit

 

Spanish telco marches into pix, TV

 

Motion, M5 ink distrib pact

 

Poulin bridges gap unit

 

Spanish helmer Trueba prepping four projects

 

Rupe's BSkyB puts Ball into play

 

Warners hopes to open 'Eyes' with clips, Cruise

 

Zeitgeist spirits rights to Riker's 'City'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

'Mum's' the word

 

Emmy's 'Rosie' glow

 

Kubrick remembered

 

Eagles' Staples tix fly

 

NBC tries to pacify affils

 

WB net shifting sked, expanding to 6 nights

 

NBC to cut the laughs

 

USA whips up 'Marquis' for Van Sant to direct

 

ABC abandons attempt to extract show stakes

 

Kelley, Fox net weigh second, thinner 'Ally'

 

Encore Media ups Bauman to prexy

 

Ex-beauty queen washes up on soap

 

'Letter' perfect

 

Episode I: the preems

 

H'wood kicked in the assets

 

ASCAP cites Warren, Martin

 

Telemundo sked to lather soaps again

 

Canter to referee 'Feud'

 

USA B'casting ups Sloan

 

Halsted homestead

 

Tozzi inks Medusa prod'n pact

 

Telco delays Rupe's plans for Italo TV

 

Sarkissian 'Rushes' to NL

 

Tusk to remain at New Line

 

Canada won't regulate internet

 

Fox aims to bolster Netherlands

 

Shooting Gallery aims Given at new prez post

 

Encore Group ups Leighton to prexy

 

Sound investment

 

L.A. Film School to offer tech courses

 

EchoStar's net loss doubles

 

Prez lets H'w'd off the hook, targets guns

 

Viacom ups bid for Spelling

 

A dramatic change

 

Sony denies plan to sell ops

 

MGM sets up loan facility

 

Nick adds Gas to sports deals

 

McTiernan eyes UA's 'Rollerball,' 'Quiller'

 

Inside Move

 

Spring has sprung

 

Jackson's ratings good at KRLA-AM

 

Skyline's limit: four-pic slate

 

'Storm' snares Clooney; Molina joins 'Rangers'

 

ABC spins 'City' to Tuesdays

 

Mann owner mulls management deal

 

Whitaker set for 'Falconer'

 

'Arc' de triomphe

 

CBS schedule puts inhouse in order

 

'Smokey Joe's' B.O. sizzles with Knight

 

Foglia to helm Tolin's 'Memory' on Off B'way

 

B'way PR vets set own shop

 

Lucas, Spielberg team up -- on vacation

 

Chinese exhibs yank U.S. pix to protest bombing

 

World Briefs

 

CME reports 6% tumble in net revs in 1st quarter

 

Distrib goes Dutch

 

AMC in post-boat dip as net loss rises

 

Shaw seeks boost in stock selloff

 

Matthews posts qtr. rise

 

Reciprocal racing

 

Mergers up NTL numbers

 

Gates makes move on Teuton cable net

 

MTG sales up as losses cut

 

Miramax buys 'Bowl' rights

 

Kimmel to produce digital films

 

Warner Music ups Vidich

 

HBO ups programming vets to senior veep slots

 

Disney ups Lofaro to sr. VP, prod'n

 

'Arc' lights up Eye

 

Bulls-deprived webs bullish on NBA playoffs

 

AT&T's deep pockets only go so far

 

Pols targetting TV

 

TV vets tackle ethical risks about content

 

Pitt, Aniston may be 'Waking Up in Reno'

 

Inside Move

 

Canton grows 'Rose' by Besson's Seaside

 

Peacock may leave NAB's nest

 

WB accent on drama

 

Imagine, Weitz bros. go 'Nutty'

 

Phoenix, Nolte's Kingsgate team

 

Fox Family has eyes for 'Ally'

 

Judge boots out writer bias case

 

Nick picks new telepix strategy

 

'Hope' floats at CBS

 

Biz's old hands stay idle

 

Darth mauls theaters

 

Fox locks on Peacock

 

WB grows teen sked

 

VH1 taps Sarnoff for exec VP post

 

Van Dien, Bell will shift for TBS pic

 

NBC might ankle NAB

 

Small frosh class makes ABC's grade

 

Fox taps Katz for research

 

Oscar winner nabs Tisch's Riese Award

 

Shoring up int'l

 

Look, ID ink online pact

 

U.K.'s OR has 'Soul' for pix

 

Singaporeans entitle Powers to 'shag'

 

Zeffirelli, Frost go to opera

 

Kushner-Locke losses up

 

Viacom's shareholders meeting has global look

 

CMC goes online, plans name change

 

Less is more for webs

 

TNT promotes Long to sr. veep, prod'n

 

CBS 'Falcone' on hold

 

Eye takes steady sked route

 

Reiser 'Mad' for series finale

 

Few H'w'd screenings

 

CBS' 'Joan' arcs down for wrap

 

TV web Pax them in

 

Univision's visin

 

Martin's English debut disc No. 1

 

Shadyac, U get 'Cross'

 

Indie Shooting Gallery aims pics at Starz net

 

Vinton ups Myhre

 

Seventh ups Holocaust pic

 

TA calls boycot

 

'Phantom' flubs with guilded cages

 

No urge to merge

 

'Lois and Clark' star Cain in Col/TriStar deal

 

Spelling buoys Shae to sr. VP

 

Lions Gate makes date with 'Mr. Death'

 

Editel to shutter; 85 will lose jobs

 

EchoStar goes into orbit

 

Donald and Mickey set for video games debut

 

Oprah on top as yakkers shine

 

Edmund Gilbert

 

Roundabout to launch season with 'Answer'

 

Variety fetes pic guides

 

BMI fetes tunesmiths

 

Swing time

 

WWF to get into ring with Wall St.

 

Katz gets Mouse

 

UPN pins its sked hopes on wrestling

 

Fandom 'Menace' hits $7.5 mil in first 6 hrs.

 

AMC scales back plexes in turnabout

 

Kilmer suits up for 'Mars'

 

Jerry Wunderlich

 

Thomas Kellard

 

Rosalyn Fishman

 

Timothy Alan Burris

 

Deborah Ann Hebert

 

Donald E. Stewart

 

Reviews

Mascara

Heartbreak House

Heartbreak House

Out of Depth

The Golden Ass

Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight

La Dispute

Mother Russia

Missing Footage

The Winter's Tale

A Saint She Ain't

Vicki Sue Robinson -- Behind the Beat

The Pajama Game

Very Heaven

The Importance of Being Earnest

The First Time

Hold Back the Night

Trippin'

Pola X

The Barber of Siberia

The Other

Money Buys Happiness

The Settlement

Snapped

Tales of Kish

Paths in the Night

Ratcatcher

Bellyfruit

Sometime in August

Better Living Through Circuitry

Existo

Jump

Outlaw

The Love Machine

Sweet Underground

Hit and Runway

Prince of Central Park

The Soul Guardians

The Lake

Sacred

Down with Death!

The Jesse Ventura Story

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Tales of Kish

Throne of Death

Ratcatcher

The Carriers Are Waiting

Half a Dozen Babies

MacArthur

Wonderland

The Limey

Evita

So Close to Paradise

Cradle Will Rock

The Importance of Being Earnest

Bells Are Ringing

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Jimmy Cobb's Mob

Love Will Tear Us Apart

The Five Senses

My Best Fiend

Humanity

On Board

Voyages

East Is East

Time Regained

Darkness and Light

Charisma

M/Other

The Passengers

Beautiful People

No One Writes to the Colonel

Garage Olimpo

Felicia's Journey

The Cup

Genesis

South

Bootleg Film

Nadia and the Hippos

The Nanny

Harem Suare

The Virgin Suicides

The White Suit

The Last September

Hometown Blue

Flowers From Another World

7/25

Siam Sunset

Cleopatra

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Fever


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