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

Tarzan

On the Jump

Hurrah at Last

The Death of Cool

The Death of Papa

Henry V: A Musical Scenario After Shakespeare

Tennessee Williams Remembered

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

Aristocrats

The Winter's Tale

Van Morrison

Bayside Shakedown

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards

Crusade

Farewell, Terra Firma!

Beresina or the Last Days of Switzerland

Old 97's

Ojai Festival

Mary Chapin Carpenter; Shawn Colvin

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The Chimp Channel

Silent Predators

Tom Waits: Storyteller

Groundlings: A Planned Community

The Moffatts

Enemy of My Enemy

The Trench

Scarfies

The Sex Monster