Table of Contents
Week of 10/29/1999

Articles

Diamond Daly

 

Holiday spec aims to help foster kids

 

NATO taps Fithian prez

 

Fox feels the pinch

 

Infinity arm boosts Eye's net income

 

Carey's 'Early' exit

 

Financial Briefs

 

Copycat suit looms

 

Trade talk culture clash looms

 

Duffell downloads digital music deal with TVN

 

Hugh Benson

 

Int'l org battles 'Net music piracy

 

Sweep whiffs NBC

 

Kennedy is named VP Fox B'cast

 

Kids' WB chases Nick in Sat. ayem race

 

The WB picks up 'Popular'

 

Littlefield, NATPE 'Net

 

LaManna will adapt 'Heroes'

 

Press joins Paradigm

 

'Net celeb flap may be int'l problem, says D.C.

 

Par digs Hyams for 'The Core'

 

Fox locks in drama pilots

 

Viacom's spooking regulators

 

Halloween bows tend to be tricky

 

USA to launch or buy new cablers

 

Chase can't refuse Sony's offer to helm

 

Zide back in college with Web site

 

France heads 'East' for foreign language Oscar

 

'Bachelor' helmer Sinyor finds 'Love'

 

Digital dickering

 

UCI to bow Brazil plex

 

Ragtime run comes to an end

 

Arista and Warner Music pact to bring on the 'Hits'

 

Great Scott celebrated

 

Activision tells 'Story'

 

Oxygen exhales info in tank roadshow

 

Franchise taps two exex

 

Japan Digital looks to Mother TSE

 

WNBC tops newscasts

 

Bakula under 'Suspicion'

 

Paper says Cecchi Gori to wrap up '99 with loss

 

EU goes to court over Telefonica exec posting

 

Mouse munches B.O.

 

More ProSieben exex exit in Kirch's wake

 

Mediaset: Bulk of program coin to go to inhouse prod'n

 

BSkyB goal: more soccer

 

TriStar's SuperTV taps Wodtke

 

Dramas top Italo awards

 

Foreign presales to fuel Miracle, Firestorm slates

 

Inside Move

 

A Madden-ing touch

 

MediaTrip.com inks Web distrib'n deals

 

Expanding 'Planet'

 

Financial Briefs

 

Frank DeVol

 

New Line flippin' 'Burger'

 

Kantor has right 'Stuff'

 

'Blair' bewitches license deals

 

Baseball backlash

 

ABC's 'Ophelia' explores adolescent girls' quests

 

ABC sweeps tied to catastrophic results

 

Players

 

McLoughlin tapped for 'Exorcist'

 

Court stays transcript order

 

Studios USA signs scribes

 

B.O. full 'House'

 

Awards click with 'Net users

 

'Haunted' treats Hollywood

 

'Insider's' night out

 

U, Imagine in 'Curious' monkey biz with Bird

 

ESPN joining regional team

 

Eyre to head Pearson

 

'Days' start for Schur, Geffen

 

Flockhart back in 'Bash'

 

Council eyes film loan plan

 

Kudos fete documentaries

 

ABC OKs pilot for 'Holmes'

 

'World' tops AFI Fest

 

VH1 'Music' maker pacts with BGTV

 

Perry to make News as dept. head at ICM

 

Kushner-Locke puts Moos atop prod'n

 

Spanish Acad loves 'Mother'

 

NAACP preps network boycott

 

Christopher Awards call for entries

 

Banking on a star vehicle? Slots of luck

 

Dorothy E. Sharpe

 

Court OKs TV ad limits

 

'Exorcist' sales turn U.K. heads

 

World Briefs

 

Fox upped at Conde Nast

 

Viacom, CBS set date for stockholders' eligibility

 

Sony, NTT bid for sat license

 

Liberty adds Four

 

Miller tapped sr. VP of Disney products

 

China webs toon up WB superheroes

 

Euro helmers' SOS

 

B'casters offer minority $

 

Tokyo pic fest bows with Besson opus

 

Acad to open millennium with Wilder fete

 

Congressional staffs stuck on satcast plan

 

Diamond dogs NBC

 

WB Records drives Bentley

 

'Pie' guys get 'Chef'; Verhoeven takes 'Road'

 

Williams stars at Comedy arts fest

 

Sandler new NARAS veep

 

Steinbrenner bats Schiller into top job

 

New BBC topper orders review of Broadcast ops

 

Dollars & 'Sense'

 

TenPercenteries

 

Seagram shuffle

 

NBC ices 'Cold Feet'

 

NBA.com TV sets anchors

 

'Jeopardy' leads Par to market share win

 

Replay doubles up to vie for holiday sales

 

'Baywatch' buyer

 

Disney, Hong Kong to park it for $3 bil

 

'Friends' scribe Curtis will pal pilot with Fox

 

Miller ankling WB for Bel-Air

 

Floridian wins Final Draft competish

 

'Nukem' pere Chaimowitz game for Auction Channel

 

Par gets peppy with 'Sleepy' online

 

Kinowelt staked with $244 mil cash boost

 

ITV springs for Springer U.K. show

 

Hasbro, Fox tie-in 'Titan'

 

Four bows fail to boost buggy B'way

 

New Yorker teams with Lincoln Center for film fest

 

Consumer segs get test drive by ABC News

 

Eddie Griffin pegged for Pryor biopic

 

High-class Hoyts

 

Judy Schoen

 

Exec Shuffle

 

EMI acquires majority stake of Hit & Run

 

Biz vets tapped to lead Team's new int'l subsid

 

Welch to retire as GE chief

 

Paris mouse trap

 

Japanese cablers log profitable year

 

Ocelot nabs Lion at Cinekids fest

 

World Briefs

 

'Early Show' starts fast but NBC Careys the day

 

Must-see TV falters after short Series

 

Anna Murdoch gets her Mann

 

Fox News Channel beats MSNBC in Oct.

 

ESPN scores with football

 

Popular Oz laffer axed

 

TBS taps two in dept. merger

 

Valladolid crowns O'Donnell's 'East'

 

Enquirer parent buys rival tabs

 

Col gives pitch old college try

 

Propaganda Films taps Walsh

 

Patricof to launch GoodStory.com

 

'Waiting Game' played by Seventh Art in U.S.

 

Players

 

Snegaroff up to E! originals VP

 

Lazarus rises at net

 

Platt, Artists TV Group ink prod'n deal

 

Eschenasy up at USA Films

 

It's Only Money

 

Syndie mags, games grab eyeballs

 

Cable channel pulls seg on Willis

 

SAG vote draws charges

 

Roarke to help 'Mars' talker to get in orbit

 

'Sleuthing' a deal

 

NBC gets onboard for laffer

 

'Rugrats' duo draw 7 figures for the Mouse

 

NBC eyes 'Ellen' vets for laffer

 

Satcasters castigate bill

 

U.K.'s Granada to deliver local programs to Oz's 7

 

MediaOne swings profit

 

Sutherland may cop TV role

 

CBS ups Farr, Eigendorff

 

Cinar gets educational with Lightspan pact

 

Vollack uptempo to sr. VP at Col

 

Noggin hosts 'Street' anni

 

Conde Nast taps Fair publisher

 

Cuomo joins ABC's '20/20'

 

Fox trots 3 to tops

 

News Corp. topper turns 'Net prophet

 

Grace McDonald

 

Cristofer Shihar

 

Dean O'Brien

 

Zevzi Pelman

 

Telesis Prods. enters into development partnership

 

Native Americans feted

 

DeMille kudos to Streisand

 

Eyeing 'Net results

 

Weaver tries to legalize industrial hemp

 

PorchLight taps TV vet Broido sr. VP

 

Vet biz trio to swim in their new River Prods.

 

Discovery's Pet project

 

Site-seeing plans

 

Santana tops for 3rd week

 

Ian Bannen dies in car accident

 

Vidgame Heavy Gear to infiltrate television

 

New Line's Web pact targets niche auds

 

New posts for 4 prexies at Time Warner Cable

 

Fountainbridge to drive golf project for Connery

 

Rudin develops 'Heads'; Tucker eyes 'Soul'

 

Montan's mountain

 

'N Sync counters BMG suit

 

Ellis tapped sr. VP

 

'Kissed' scribes, WBTV smooch deal

 

WB 'Mars' flight way after Mouse

 

WB asks for 'Giant' favor

 

Pirates' booty

 

'Pokemon' pic mania is on

 

India to hold talks on satcasting bill

 

3 digital pix unspool at Tokyo festival

 

Porn-wary pols zap tax-break bill

 

Disney feels some heat from Street

 

CNN to perk with Coffey

 

NBC braces for S.F.

 

Grass gets greener title

 

Fox finance exex ring up promotions

 

'Cheers' duo pacts with Par for 3 years

 

Playboy TV, Comcast ink pact

 

B'casters set up fund for minorities, women in biz

 

Peacock picks McKenna pilot

 

HarperCollins merges sales

 

Sales honcho Lovejoy joins Oz's Beyond

 

Monarch for a day

 

Premiere push pays

 

Hizzoner honors trio of showbizzers

 

Hong Kong defends the Magic Kingdom

 

A ball with 'Mansfield'

 

Banned lifted for benefit

 

'Free' set for Oscar

 

Italy's 'World' joins Oscar race

 

DGA Honors to fete New Line's Shaye

 

Reviews

The Apartment Complex

The Scarlet Pimpernel Meets Madame Guillotine

Anya's Bell

The Music of Hitchcock: A Centennial Celebration

Princess Mononoke (English Version)

Liar's Poker

The Apartment Complex

The Scarlet Pimpernel Meets Madame Guillotine

The Music of Hitchcock: A Centennial Celebration

The Innocent

Finian's Rainbow

Sweeney Todd

A View from the Bridge

House on Haunted Hill

The Water Engine/Mr. Happiness

Running Man

Stars in Your Eyes

Tis Pity She's a Whore

Breaking in

An Experiment with an Air Pump

Hotel of Two Worlds

Suckers

Six Days in Roswell

See You

42 Up

Cosy Dens

Gemini

Evil

Heater

Split Wide Open

Feminine, Singular

Dial H for Hitchcock

The South: Alice Never Lived Here

Perfect Blue

Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

Noroc

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc - Vivid Action Can't Save Miscast 'Joan'

Love at First Sight

Smoking Cuban Style

Audition

The Big Split

The Apartment Complex

Shake, Rattle & Roll

The Servant of Two Masters

Behind the Counter With Mussolini

Talk About Money

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Dracula

Kris Kristofferson

John Paul Jones

Mad Cows

The Fantasticks

At the Mercy of a Stranger

Pet Shop Boys

Shake, Rattle & Roll

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Dennis Cleveland

Yes

The Bachelor


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