Table of Contents
Week of 06/04/1999

Articles

Charles Pierce

 

Cablers set kids week

 

Pic tackles public taste for celeb violence

 

Tony time means survival for fittest

 

'Menace' blasts Oz B.O. records in o'seas debut

 

Black Film Fest expands

 

L.A. Gay Film Fest ready for 'Love'

 

SAG to honor McCord

 

Kuras lands Vision award

 

Oz's Prime TV issues stox

 

AT&T's hot rocks

 

Patrizio joins Disney

 

NBC picks Comerford

 

Ratings irk Ukraine TV

 

Shakeup at Egmont

 

Chinese yank CNN's signal as anni nears

 

'Ryan's' vid victory

 

Man taps Skalski for pics

 

Endemol, Hearst co-funding Castro romance 'Assassin'

 

India says no to PTV programs

 

Elise, Manheim sprint to ABC's 'Claiborne'

 

Karlovy Vary taps Eastern riches

 

Roman taps Ramirez VP

 

Players

 

Sneed new Magic Ent. prexy

 

Sighvatsson buys Palomar

 

Cable channels cash in

 

Korris tapped for USC tech post

 

Bills fight prod'n flight

 

CBS panel eyes net-affil model

 

Assembly OKs bill exempting artists

 

SNL Studios names Feldman as president

 

Col, Campbell take O'Donnell to 'Limit'

 

August blossoms

 

'Menace' digital in L.A., N,J.

 

MGM-Coppola deal shifts

 

Fremes ankles Le Monde

 

ABC to offer affils new deals at confab

 

Mas Canosa floats Supercanal

 

Italo Stream picks board

 

Col Int'l taps Bluijssen

 

Cleese voices 'MouseWorks'

 

Telepic 'Bell' rings for Reese

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Downing to lead Times

 

Mouse takes its turn with Katz calculation

 

Shubert has 'Spirit'

 

Jerry Zanitsch

 

Marilyn Jackson Wells

 

Rege Cordic

 

William Arthur Scott Jr.

 

Keith Quigley

 

Jerry Solowitz

 

Vavra tops CME's Nova

 

Hawaii says aloha to record film spending

 

'Phantom' fab o'seas

 

Pandora opens up to rights for 'Fade to Black'

 

CNN goes regional in India

 

MTV Awards like a few things about 'Mary'

 

ABC orders 'Bellevue'

 

'Springer' ratings belted

 

M2 launches pic unit

 

Viacom getting 'Buy' on Street

 

Sony high-def slot to Hopkins

 

Launch, Runner in tune pact

 

Tubbies toy tirade

 

EPT offering nets $21 mil

 

Industry vet Gottlieb named to Harvey board

 

Banister: 'Net will be women's world

 

WGA members ratify Eye web news contract

 

Without U, Pressman to keep 'Crow' flying

 

Shakespeare Fest on the town

 

L.A. bows to 'Clara'

 

Words into violence

 

Jedi's dead-eye at weekend B.O.

 

Griffin inks for 'Sammy'

 

Mel Torme, velvet-voiced singer, dies

 

Morgan Creek ups Martino

 

Henson Pics visits the 'Sun'

 

KCBS big winner at local Emmy Awards

 

Underwood graces 'Angels'

 

Cage strums U's 'Mandolin'

 

Sold on 'Salesman'

 

Violence bill to be heard

 

ABC to punt big costs to affils

 

'Net gets just desserts: 'Banana Splits' returns

 

First run bringing gay 'Bedrooms' to screens

 

After the Tonys

 

Probing 'Phantom' subtext

 

Scottish Media strings Pearl

 

Viewers for Quality TV tap 'Practice,' 'Raymond'

 

Bauer joins Prosieben board

 

'Star Wars' menacing foreign boffo

 

Preems preen o'seas

 

Licensed to grow

 

Berg, Dayton join Replay directors

 

@Home stock builds after ruling-led drop

 

Congress' accusations grow ludicrous

 

Voss boss again of Foreign Press

 

Thompson, Wink ink link for sat service

 

ABC News' Hersh joins A&E as VP

 

AFI cites trio with degrees

 

Without Rosie, Tony takes ratings tumble

 

Producers in Tonys bumped 'Blues'

 

Chen leaves turn

 

Blanchett gets 'Gift'; controversial cannibal

 

Exec Shuffle

 

MK2 buys Truffaut pix

 

Format vs. format

 

Mexican TV star Stanley killed in midday attack

 

'Lost' pair is found

 

Campbell will laugh for WB TV

 

LMN landing on Cox cable

 

ProAct springs up in SAG to counter P.A. faction

 

Underwood departs 'Guam'

 

Baseball toons warm up

 

Techinicolor taps Hummel exec veep

 

Par Classics taps Elzer

 

Fictional pics, series for E!

 

MTV fete flies high at hangar

 

Four Media sets revs record

 

Bonus onus is on expert

 

Disney may net Infoseek

 

Vivendi nabs sat stakes for Pathe merger

 

UA fit for Lion's niche

 

Fox, O&Os make good on threat to exit NAB

 

Warner toons into 'Osmosis'

 

Gabriel best at Spanish Fest

 

Cuts may kill Argentine pix

 

Kinowelt moving into TV production

 

Tony party puts Brits in pits

 

Granada brings biz to Internet

 

'Peter Pan' leads in B'Way's B.O. slump

 

Michigan Waterfront fest lands

 

News cabler set to bow new look, format

 

Cable aig to grow by 2 mil during summer

 

FX toons in 'Dick and Paula'

 

White Way runs red

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Italy's free, pay TV gain for season

 

ACTRA sets up strike fund before final talks

 

Museum unveils new Brit film fest

 

NBC hoops starting to miss Mike

 

'Last Producer' should look familiar

 

Panavision taps Seybold as CFO

 

Box launch for NBC

 

Duo upped at Peacock web

 

Clinton not keen on limiting biz freedom

 

Pearson forms online arm

 

Bill would ban sale of violence to youths

 

Radio satcaster XM tunes in $250 million

 

SBS in strategic alliance

 

Disney's ABC discounts cited

 

'Phantom' pushes Fox to market share lead

 

CNN shock as Dobbs ankles

 

Retail's new song

 

Gen. Washington gets skewered in Stiller pic

 

Acad producers urge Oscar limits

 

H'wood's new age

 

Analysts pan Disney profits

 

USA taking 'Springer' bids

 

Regency taps Panitch for prod'n prexy

 

Costello coasts over to Reprise as sr. VP

 

ABC, affils at 1st Goal on football

 

Gooding salvages 'Diver'

 

'Ideal' gets digital bow

 

Albery ankles film commission post

 

'Epic' bows at Hayes in Sept.

 

April auds dry up in England

 

Fake scenery? Don't Tibet on it, sez Annaud

 

AFC taps Dalton chief exec

 

CEO Procter ankles S. African e.tv

 

U, Jones, Ratner get 'Sticky'

 

Murdoch keeps 'Practice,' 'Ally' reruns in family via FX

 

Coke inks drink pact for U Studios Japan

 

Cox makes music with MP3.com

 

TV revs boost Granada

 

Sinclair opts out

 

Murdoch divorce final

 

KeyFilms unlocks rights to 2 Miramax pics in Italy

 

NTL details digital

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Shaw ponies up for Hong Kong studio

 

Nick U.K. to bow Nick Jr. on SkyDigital

 

Pentafour to go public

 

Senator Film opens new chapter with Pub buy

 

Russian TV fetes Pushkin

 

Global's in at Outfest

 

Ron Link

 

Who's in, out of Emmy running

 

Scribes in spotlight

 

Smits cops starring role in Par's 'Child'

 

Cooper/Hellman nets Slamdunk

 

Odyssey says hello to 'Hollow' in Oct.

 

McCann tops TV for Zoetrope

 

Boys hold on to No. 1 spot

 

Courting world TV

 

Alphabet sets biopic on Ross and the Supremes

 

PubCol

 

Fox 2000 buys 'Sugar' pitch

 

Alliance Atlantis inks for Canal Plus pic libraries

 

Fisher set to exit as Kodak CEO

 

Thornton talking 'Ships,' Gibson eyeing 'Prof'

 

Deadline moved for award entries

 

Winkler nets fest kudos

 

Iglesias, U in tune

 

Beyond the music

 

USA taps TV vet Feldman for COO post

 

Flat ads sales harm Young

 

V-chip TVs arrive early

 

License to cash in

 

Acad solicits sci/tech noms

 

AFTRA pacts with PAX's performers

 

Judge asks for more detail in 'bottom up' bonus model

 

Retails new song

 

'Doom' with a view in Stern toon

 

'Chimp' creator Stern goes ape with lawsuit

 

New Line takes a whack at high school 'Cheaters'

 

PEN stumps for Nigeria's scribe abuses

 

Satcasters seek must-carry delay

 

Touchstone, Shelton on 'Cruz' control

 

Harrelson storms B'way in 'Rainmaker'

 

Shag-adelic time, baby!

 

Human Rights film fest skeds 'Regret,' 'City'

 

Harvey joins Azteca in 'Hot Stuff'

 

PBS welcomes 'Caillou'

 

Rosendahl joins Origin board

 

Miramax has Sale on worldwide promotion

 

Tom Riste

 

Jo Lustig

 

Ernie Wilkins

 

Joseph D. Steuben

 

Kenneth Dodson

 

Reviews

On the Jump

Hurrah at Last

The Death of Cool

Aristocrats

The Death of Papa

Henry V: A Musical Scenario After Shakespeare

Tennessee Williams Remembered

The Winter's Tale

Farewell, Terra Firma!

Throne of Death

La Carnada

Chin Up!

New Dawn

Blindfolded

The Split

Dark Summer

Tarzan - 'Tarzan' Swings Into Nonstop Toon Action

The Trench

The White Suit

Scarfies

Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?

Nadia and the Hippos

Kick

Hometown Blue

Enemy of My Enemy

Janice Beard 45 Wpm

Away with Words

March of Happiness

Beowulf

Route 9

Merci Mon Chien

The Runner

Gideon

The Prompter

Like a Fish Out of Water

The Chimp Channel

Van Morrison

Bayside Shakedown

Tarzan

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards

Old 97's

Ojai Festival

Mary Chapin Carpenter; Shawn Colvin

Farewell, Terra Firma!

Beresina or the Last Days of Switzerland

Crusade

The Chimp Channel

Silent Predators

Tom Waits: Storyteller

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Enemy of My Enemy

The Trench

The Moffatts

Groundlings: A Planned Community

Scarfies

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