Table of Contents
Week of 06/11/1999

Articles

Exec Shuffle

 

James Blades

 

Color TV sales sizzling in India

 

Star, Nat'l Geo pact in India

 

Pirate CD sales up 20% globally

 

AFI ponders future of film

 

Galaxy taps Mexico head

 

'Menace'-ing Japan

 

Team picks Dandelion

 

Enfield to get chummy with movies in 'Kevin and Perry'

 

Surging cablers link up

 

The Nordics window shop at Screenings

 

Scanlon joins Artisan as exec VP of prod'n

 

Yahoo! CEO warns b'casting

 

AT&T wires Peacock

 

EMI, Musicmaker.com ink 5-yr. licensing deal

 

Sony Signatures spins spinoff plans

 

Lewis joins Spielberg as consultant

 

BV names Hontz VP

 

UPN taps England as CFO

 

CBS starts sked shuffle early

 

Dryer hunts indie

 

Players

 

Intel in song for Web site

 

PMK plucks Luchs

 

Col TriStar TV sues Stern over sitcom

 

'Lizard' goes legit

 

Disney to top content at News

 

Ovitz adds Scour to online portfolio

 

Lear toons up for series

 

Mouse goes on the attack in Katz case

 

'Dinner' for three

 

Lyrics escape crime bill

 

More than Talk

 

Turner in on femme net

 

News Corp. set to give ball to Hill

 

Shower of 'Powers'

 

Road to the Emmys: HBO

 

Music branch sets voting precendent

 

Package deal can have make-or-break effect

 

Road to the Emmys: NBC

 

Commercial development

 

Filmmakers find TV alternative medium

 

Road to the Emmys: PBS

 

Dough, Oh Dear

 

Road to the Emmys: Cable Nets

 

Worth shouting about

 

Road to the Emmys: ABC

 

Road to the Emmys: Fox

 

Road to the Emmys: CBS

 

Road to the Emmys: Netlets

 

Drama scribes cut teeth on city grit

 

Dryer hunts indie

 

James Broughton

 

Robert Carr Doyle

 

Robert R. Scherer

 

Hugh T. Shepley

 

Maurice 'Tony' Millard

 

Lonnie McNeil

 

Ronnie Rondell Sr.

 

O'seas spirits rise

 

U will bow pay TV action web in Spain

 

Reprise taps vet Costello

 

TV Azteca buying into telco

 

Exex exit MEG; Packer to up stake

 

Corus lines up behind Canuck Shaw's assets

 

Canucks loosen up

 

Ceska new broadcast provider for Nova TV

 

Russia's TV6 sells off stake

 

Lyle heads Pearson development

 

Telemundo, Azteca pact

 

B.O. soars on 'Powers' trip

 

Par TV taps LaFountaine

 

Virtual Jay set to bow on Tuesday

 

Quaid, Goldberg charm 'Leprechauns' cast

 

Cabler's Web warning

 

Inside Move

 

'Hardball' in play

 

Safer, Stewart bite into Food Net series

 

Ten Percenteries

 

Execs to boost online sales

 

Hood sr. VP, TV Guide Ent.

 

VH1 ramps up Ricky TV pic

 

Glaser drama VP of 20th Century Fox

 

DeForest Kelley dies at 79

 

Cablers limp to NCTA

 

Collins translates for Disney

 

Digital delay for next 'Wars'

 

Promax in line with Web wave

 

FX clocks in 'Millennium'

 

'Ideal' pic for actor

 

Smoke signals bad day for Harvey

 

Drew love

 

Software sees power of 'Austin'

 

'MTV Music Awards' hits ratings high

 

Playboy to go Spanish

 

Movie masetros line up for film music awards

 

Babelsberg revs bubble up

 

H'wood sizzles over rhetoric of violence

 

Two Jacor stations to return Grammy tapes

 

Carpinello, Price to lead B'Way 'Fever'

 

Roman about to 'Freak' out

 

Red now AFT's only color

 

Banff Rockie Awards salute peaks in TV

 

Canuck actors union averts strike with deal

 

Super RTL goes high-profile

 

Confab eyes closer U.S., German ties

 

Regent sees future in 'Nostradamus'

 

Teutonic TM 3 is Champions channel

 

Rupe pulls up chair

 

Link memorial

 

Ibope buys off ratings competish

 

FCC rules for webs in EchoStar battle

 

Big pix plow o'seas

 

Sci-fi acad sends pix into orbit with Saturns

 

Broadbander Arepa.com taps Grosso as chief exec

 

Weighing standards

 

Court boosts subs, rejoins MediaOne

 

Exiting, stage left

 

USA to do windows

 

TVN rings up two buys toward cable commerce

 

Nielsen goes to 'Mars'

 

Col TriStar calls Moyes

 

Las Vegas makes bid for the Boss

 

NBA rating rebounds with Knicks

 

'Today' wakes up ratings with Martin

 

Oxygen cabler, Bergen 'Exhale'

 

'X' marks the Scott for Singer-helmed Fox pic

 

UPN weblet ups Pastoor to sr. veep

 

Regent snares Cates' debut drama 'Spent'

 

Warners reins 'Helldorado'

 

Blake exits KNBC for 'Later'

 

Hayek banner taps Fisher prez

 

Mouse hounds Wolf

 

Oops, uh, we object...

 

Inside move

 

Trauma, Bush settle, ink deal

 

'Blues' star suffers stroke

 

B'way B.O. bounces back with 8% jump

 

Lucas plans $250 mil Presidio arts center

 

Praisery seeks to buy BWR

 

'Eloise' buy a big coup for Itsy Bitsy

 

New script for WGA's leadership

 

Working, Curtis ink 2-pic pact

 

Cable conundrum

 

Frank Kowalski

 

Marv Ystrom

 

Darwyn Swalve

 

Doreen Lang

 

'Beggars' is cold look at network TV

 

ABC lures Jackson back for west coast coverage

 

AFMA aims to support producers

 

NBC scores with NBA but viewership drops

 

Devereux steps into role at Film Network

 

'Jack' in Stratosphere orbit

 

World Briefs

 

Digital bows with 'Mask'

 

Murdoch elected BSkyB chairman

 

Top German pay TV services merge

 

'Center' of change

 

Torneden tops Film Guarantors

 

Movie Tunes up Clearview pact

 

It's a Rio win for Diamond

 

FCC chairman backs free 'Net

 

Polotoco simpatico

 

MPAA sked on hi-def

 

Bressler 'Nets TW

 

Ad-killing TV boxes called big net threat

 

Players

 

Egan script bewitches Touchstone

 

Shadyac's Shady Acres banner taps Brubaker

 

AFI fetes 100 greats

 

Moss grows on 'Crew' pic

 

Cutback to stem runaway prod'n, producer urges

 

'John,' 'Tree' earn '99 Student Oscars

 

Fresh face for History net

 

Litvack attacks Katz's calcs

 

Menella adds sr. VP title at Fox

 

Helmer Kripke bites on 'Munchies'

 

Sense of a 'Woman'

 

Warner fine-toons TV, film under MacCurdy

 

Inside Moves

 

James tops at Bochco

 

Walker wants to walk

 

Producers' directors

 

Marvin Goldfarb

 

Discovery's shark week live

 

'Negotiator,' Gray top Acapulco fest

 

Shooting back

 

Edwards eyes L.A. location

 

Montecito gets new home at Dreamworks

 

Eye sees McCartney

 

Acad changes tune ... and pic eligibility

 

Publisher Planeta bows Spanish TV and film arm

 

Zucker tapped Henson veepee

 

NBC ups Xoom.com stake

 

Leone named WNBC sales VP

 

Turner, Fox compete for South

 

Torneden tops Film Guarantors

 

Golden turning page with Pokemon pickup

 

'Titanic' sails again as DVD

 

James 'Rosy' McHargue

 

Gertrude Gipson Penland

 

Corrado Mantoni

 

Kenneth Glancy

 

Optus to reduce studio fees

 

UIP staying home

 

Mouse exex in park plan

 

Appeals court rules against Plus

 

Publisher Planeta bows Spanish TV and film arm

 

Darrell Sweet

 

Marchand tapped at UPI

 

Japan eyes tube violence

 

World Brief

 

Int'l Emmys to fete Hieda

 

Site officials put location information on the Web

 

Hepburn nabs top spot in AFI legend poll

 

Seagram stox sale sets a share price

 

Murdoch's mission

 

ThirdAge Media latest 'Net gain for Karmazin

 

AT&T seeks fast appeal

 

Chase gets 'Soprano' offer; Gallagher dances

 

Divx hits stop button

 

Lensers focus on strike fund

 

Silver Pics taps Levin prod'n VP

 

Backstreet Boys hold on to No. 1 album slot

 

Apted nabs docu honor

 

AFTRA reps Spanish-lingo thesps

 

Mpath taps E!'s Verba exec VP

 

B'way Video veeps Irwin

 

Tinseltown crew repped by IATSE

 

Mary and Emmy

 

Favorites upset when voters feed underdog

 

Journal gets agent

 

Church urges Disney to jettison Miramax

 

'Rush' is in Material to WB

 

New Line is 'Word' processing

 

U, Jersey Shore near 'Stupid' deal

 

Everett, Bates in 'Love'

 

CTTV upping Michaels to prod'n prexy

 

Allen pumps up $100 mil into Oxygen

 

House dumps violence bill

 

'World,' 'Ocean' top Italo prize map

 

Cullen into CBS sitcom

 

Illsley has a brush with Paramount's 'Baldness'

 

New Dimension for Hunter

 

Fox holds the 'Fight' to fall

 

S.F. opens $85 mil entertainment mall

 

Loaded questions

 

Navigating kudos jam

 

Numbers, not Emmys, line winner's pockets

 

Pseudo Programs interacts with $14 mil capital infusion

 

Miramax taps Wilby sr. VP

 

Cross-pollination

 

Gabbing for gold

 

Two thumbs up for McCarthy on 'Ebert'

 

'General's' five-star cast

 

Armani fetes Clapton for charity guitar fest

 

'Thomas' chugs into U.K. for Icon

 

'Don Juan' tuner has been to Hell and back

 

Cardinal winging to UPN research roost

 

CheckOut chalks Talk City co-deal

 

Arte: Culture knows no borders

 

Kelley wins Astral at TV festival

 

To toot the tube

 

Quality time: '99 Rockie nominations

 

Avid support for TV

 

Short stands tall

 

TV's crown sits well on Kelley

 

Road to the Emmys: Showtime

 

Skip Spence

 

Bob Peck

 

Peter Hurlburt Verity

 

Robert Ringer

 

Enrico 'Henry' Mangravite

 

Ray Russell

 

Stefan Schnabel

 

Reviews

Karen Fineman

Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

New Blood

The General's Daughter

Just a Little Harmless Sex

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

Karen Fineman

Swingstep

La Terrasse

Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving

If Love Were All

The Real Thing

The First Picture Show

The Last Big Attraction

Nothing

The Last Best Sunday

The Corndog Man

Senso Unico

Human Traffic

Creature

Sweet Thing

Final Rinse

The Basement and the Kitchen

Our Island in the South Pacific

My Name Is Sara

Samurai Fiction

Mommy's a Fool

The Mao Game

To Walk with Lions

After the Rain

Tom's Midnight Garden

Love Happens

The Secret Life of Girls

Freak Talks About Sex

La Bomba

Jackie's Back

Beggars and Choosers

The Man Show

Wild Wild Wango Tango

Playboy Jazz Festival, Day One

Best Laid Plans

Dead Dogs

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl

In the 20th Century; Garry Marshall on Marriage

Jackie's Back

To Walk With Lions

Playboy Jazz Festival, Day Two

Tom Waits

Freak Talks About Sex

Catfish In Black Bean Sauce

Let the Devil Wear Black

The Last Big Attraction

The Last Best Sunday

Al Green; Deniece Williams

The Imaginary Invalid; Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Human Traffic

Skunk Anansie

Sonic Youth/New York Art Quartet

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Culture Clash in Bordertown

The Man Show

Pirates of Silicon Valley

This Space Between Us

The Story of Fathers & Sons

Brad Mehldau

Jonny Lang; Patty Griffin


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