ABC News taps McGinty

Homevideo huzzahs

Napster injunction hearing set for Friday

Uproar gaming site reports loss

Sullivan unveils three-pic slate

Cannes adds int'l pavilions

Gallic Cesar Awards hail 'Harry,' 'Taste'

Burns pulls double duty on 'Ash'

Corrections

Thiessen climbs aboard Allen pic

Inside Move: New 'Apocalypse' at Cannes

Loews: $10 tix (soda extra)

Guild backs TV toon scribes

Eye, Peacock sweeping to victories in key demos

Today's writers still in awe of films of 1950

B'buster eye on Street with run at new tech

Genre-bending is new game in town

WGA Focus: Guild talks still in the limelight

WGA fights for writers in more than one arena

The write stuff

Guild counts on character

O'seas auds lick chops over Scott's 'Hannibal'

Babs grabs spotlight

Lumet illuminates snowy Israel film fest

DGA honors Poitier

Art Directors designate 'Gladiator,' 'Chocolat'

Imax rock doc preem bigger than life

Beacon elects a helmer for politico pic

Rosemary De Camp

Seymour Kapetansky

Claudia Roberts

Arlene Stadd

Roger Caras

SAG will not extend pact by 4 months

Letter to the Editor: Gerry Lewis

Television takes over Pacific post

NBC's Hayes-hosted 'SNL' peaks in ratings

Oscar intrigue hitting the reality wall

A Look Ahead

Timeline: Scribe strides

Comden, Green lauded

Tussling teenagers

Turtles gets Promark coin

Venture closes windows

Sogecable posts profit for first time since '97

Video Business Video Premiere Award winners

ABC vet Lewis joins CNN Greenfield show

DGA to honor vet Van Ry

On2.com reports 4th qtr. loss, revs up

Kirch drives EM.TV, Formula One deal

Ticket price rise pumps Poland B.O.

Zelezny woes rise

'Hannibal' gets R in Oz

Stone Stanley to shop 'Girls'

WB pulls out of MIP

'Gladiator,' 'Famous' win Eddies

Canuck prod'n rises

Oscar Watch

Oliviers on a 'Roll'

Lit properties are still hottest tickets

Haunted by spirits of '70s

FCC chair conducts class drill

Sites set at confab

Siegfried & Roy ink life pact

Strike pessimism lifting as talks enter sixth week

Femme oater Egged on

Three toss hat in 'Cat' ring

Propaganda spies prix pic

Dwight Whitney

Len Wayland

Charles B. FitzSimons

CAA's Whitesell eyes a new Endeavor

U.K. pic censors OK 'Rape Me' after edit

KABC hires Vara to be co-anchor

Malibu toasts honorees

Golightly prod'n prexy

SAG nixes agents' demand

Messier eyes red

Barbara Hershey

Kevin Bray

Williams spins 3, ColdPlay 2 at Brit Awards

Prism Awards seek aud's votes

Smiley furthers the USCAF brand

GoodTimes taking leap on faith pix

Inside Move: Frog croaks at 20th's price

Regent reels in 'Fish' rights

Whitesell exits CAA

Eye buys 'Ray' stay

Mouse lays off 135

Most TV PR group leaders return

Even Stevens?

Mouse snares 'Bears' scribe for 2 more

Sitcom train goes off its laff track

Ratings over the rainbow

WB buoys Euro pic plan

Clark returns to court with 20th's 'Power'

'Jackass' star takes his act to bigscreen

Televisa quiets talkers

S. Africans hit H'w'd

Broadway B.O. posts a hike over holiday

Film cartoonists' union to organize Bohbot

Biz receives mixed signals

Friendly ankles King World

Messier takes tech seriously

Murdoch making headway in sat platform plans

U Music turns to Fair to bolster A&M roster

True story: Lot 47 nabs 'L.I.E.' rights

Robert Weiskopf

Critical mass

Film Discovery Program gains firm footing

Bush league

Brockovich, Lagasse shopping for TV shows

Bush pal Racicot joining RIAA legal team

AT&T to AOL: Pay or we'll sell TWE stake

Alliance Atlantis revs up money machine

Droll characters earn Willard his due

Comcast fast lane

Specter of Lecter

Fest to unbutton Newhart's mind in tribute

'Color' coordinated

Aspen breaks out the Crystal

Scribes likely to say today if talks will go on

2 pact for Latin lit pix

Waiting for green

Chi Crix laud 'Famous,' 'Tiger'

Miramax snags 'Tangled'

Lifetime lifts PR topper

U, RightsLine pact for online library

KPE taps trio for Gotham headquarters

BET to bow musicvid program

Digital Media to open L.A. office

IFilm to allow databases to operate independently

Artisan grabs Barbie vid

Terra Lycos taps Killeen U.S. prexy

Corrections

Fox, Cosby set to bring 'Fat Albert' to bigscreen

Pan-African fest focuses on tech

'Maelstrom' storms Quebec pic kudos

Movie attendance climbs in Blighty

Canada backs locals

Denmark producers ink deal

West's 'Tomb' raids Iceland tax breaks

Escape lands 'Bermuda'

Gringo stars

Nets eye innovations in sports coverage

A Look Ahead

Kennedy Center spotlights Blighty

Goodspeed goes Gershwin

EM.TV-Kirch pact slides off autopilot

Striking a chord

XFL sacks Peacock's hopes of household victory

Pop vets sound best to Grammys

Japan, Korea find common ground

Zentropa, DRTV addicted to Dogma

Indie reaches final Destination

Strapped exhibs lose co-op spirit

Top exex widen reign in Spain

'Folks' finds audiences, but not a lot of hype

Fox in the groove with ''70s'

Richard P. Hazard

Robert Enrico

Lee Davis

Sam Wiesenthal

Canuck web CTV to preem Documart at Banff

Gallic sat service up

Argentinean Patagonik pix picked

'Pianist' keys into coin

BVI heats up Italo summer with June bow for 'Pearl'

Tropfest showcases shorts

Telemundo to open office with Pramer

Eye rides high with Grammys

WGA opts to continue talks

Agents rip SAG on tactics

'Gothicto' nabs 7 drama noms

RIAA waging copyright campaign

Online distribution in tune with reality

Yahoo! nixes confab counterpart to festival

Digital Media looks for big break in H'w'd

Marco upped to veep, Sony Digital group

USA, TBS tie for 1st basically in Feb.

Showtime raises Rauch

'Traffic' vid speeds up

Shandling signs with Endeavor, Gold-Miller

Words finds West Coast

Craven a classic

King World to be a little less Friendly

Hayes-hosted 'SNL' boosts NBC sweeps

Escape lands 'Bermuda'

HBO Films, Team Todd team

Oscar Watch

'Matrix' orders Italian

Congloms converge

Music vet to exit as WB trims

NBC, Eye sweep to wins

Fox puts lock on Lightstorm in 5-year reup

Reminiscing about Robards

Harris links with Donmar

Turner waking up 'Early' for Eye web

Richardson to play 'Melville' Off B'w'y

'Monty' money

'Hannibal,' 'Women' wow o'seas auds

Stage in shrink cycle

Teuton auds tire of reality shows

Oz pubcaster thaws prod'n freeze

Televisa mulls upping share in Univision

The full Monte

NBC seeks sporting chance

Censors chew on 'Hannibal'

Sci Fi show 'Crossing' over syndie barrier

Oscar-nommed trio opens o'seas sails

Dutch pic biz ready for its screen test

U homevid Hitches up 'Window'

Above the Line: Peter Scarlet

Hanks a lot: Oscar handicap?

Inside Move: Besson beset

Inside Move: Malone plugged in

Inside Move: Stock searchers hang tough

Actors union bloc under strain

Lola tunes 'Off Key,' 'Dancer' for Italy

Andrew L. Sarra

Radie Harris

Gail Fisher

Irving Lande

Michael Bacall

Patricia Berlly

Warner LeRoy

Venice sets Bard card

Grupo Novo, Apex boost Brazil pix o'seas

Gov't sez play ball

Bohbot sees cartoonists elect union

Colombian pols view 'Traffic,' 'Mrs. Lincoln'

Casting a 'Shadow'

Disney takes stake in US Weekly mag

Mainframe revs rise

Clinton urges ratings code

HSX bows market research program

Vartan spies ABC 'Alias'

Icon puckers up for 'Kiss'

D'Works decks out 'Shrek' at ShoWest

Studios USA pilots 2 more shows

Isabella Lorenza Lamas

Showtime slates 7

Clinton chides media, nixes career in H'w'd

$25 mil for Myers in 'Powers 3' play

Injury leads 'Producers' to drop Orbach

Rose Freedman

Clarke M. Schumacher (Clark Evans)

Martin de Maat

Norway auds love 'Brother'

Moore tapped as Disney's U.K. VP

'Hannibal's' big meal in Finland

New MTV Central top

Stone Stanley boosts Friedman

SFX allies with Teuton promo firm

Paxson paints brighter outlook amid red ink

Garb guild will dress up, honor Beatty

WGA inks 4 presenters

Peacock, Tribune in pact for 2 shows

Shakin' in Seattle, live Crowe, 'Gershwin' at Hayes

Harvey's honor far from common

Nominee Closeup: Rachelle Farrell

Amazon joins ranks of online tune distributors

WB Online, AmericanGreetings.com pact

Storybay bows LiteraryLibrary for scribes

Warner Music names Murphy exec VP-CFO

Vet Zelnick will join Echo board

Shaggy holds No. 1

Wilson is Col's 'Spy' guy

Star-bucks books

Chrysalis bonding, big-time

Titans give digital the ol' college try

Global Crossing taps Rios prexy

'Hannibal' goes maxi for a mini

Fox, Fields fire 'Canon'

The real '70s show

Tyro filmmakers project gets Greenlight

'Hell' revisited; Eminem gets $4 mil offer

U opens its heart to Addario, Syracuse spec

'Courage' leads Steppenwolf

Film Society honors Fonda

Oscar Night America lets others join in on fun

Partygoers revel in sumptuous soirees

Cardiff's voluminous work sees the light

After a yearoff, Cates in charge

Richards Woods

Virginia Mansfield

Charles Trenet

Douglas Rask

'Pinocchio' plans

EM.TV, Kirch up stake in Formula 1

Koliba ruled free of debt to gov't

Bravo nabs Salter Street satirical series 'Industry'

French cablers, theme channels vie over fee

Brothers in arms

Scribes share their struggles

A fresh face

Image-in that: B.O. gets drawn into the black

Hiring picture fuzzy with new FCC chair

Dual tapings double party opportunity

Nominee Closeup: "The Visit"

Nominee Closeup: "A House Divided"

EBay acts to protect c'right

Heavy hits $3 mil in financing

Oscar Watch

Col TriStar raises distrib vet Zucker

Wolf at bay to direct 'Pete'

'Mole' not enough to boost ABC

AT&T moves ahead on 2 fronts

Love writes Epitaph as court OKs suit

Quake jolts sweeps

WNBC sweeping to win in 2 key Gotham newscasts

Cook, O'Donnell set to climb '29 Palms'

Farina goes to 'Stanford'

Studios USA dethrones 'Cleopatra'

Big-ticket pix link Brit rivals

CNN lineup bows young gabfest, profiler

Telefonica financial bow

CBS cheering as laff pilots lock hangars

'Spot' has its day

Disney characters take a sip of Minute Maid

Evan sues over Hughes pic

Writers blocked

Barrington baffled by mystery scribe

Gameshow survivors

Contract talks halted

Oscar's permanent home ready for debut next year

Christopher's sets set his work apart

Lehman's words etched in celluloid

De Laurentiis not foreign to success

Host controls show's tempo

Oscar fun facts

His own L.A. story

Analyzing voters is a Herculean chore

Voted on the island

Scribe's approach: real, collaborative

Oscar Watch

Mull to host ShoWest fete

Damon, Affleck pick 'Summer'

Mob's northbound

Vet managers make new Career moves

Warners ups Nelson

CNBC, TF1 in talks on money web

Intermedia is 'Number One'

Stars sign on to Declaration reading

Bridges turns 'Normal'

Big haul for Gaul

'Mole' finale lifts ABC out of darkness

Doug Hutchinson

Laemmle skeds Oscar shorts

Peacock pilots Louis-Dreyfus deal

Collette has closer look at U's 'Boy'

Trustee after Yorn in Giacchetto bankruptcy

Rupe, DirecTV slip gears

Nexo, New Line ink

Kennedy slates Sondheim

In-Motion buys global rights to 'Wheels'

'Regis' rises year to year

Prisa profits up amid new investments

Digital-delay fray

IFP/West unveils lab roster

HBO targets Spears for concert spesh

GOP: C'right a priority

Kinowelt on march

Scott Foley

Ronny Cox

Charlotte Ayanna

Timothy Bottoms, Carrie Quinn Dolin, Kurt Fuller, Marcia Wallace, Kristen Miller, John D'Aquino

David Hunt

Gold Reel kudos fete $100 mil grossers

Beatty to give SAG prize

Young, Dish signals crossed

Frog leaps in demo derby

Miramax inks Good pic pact

Coppola back in court