ABC News taps McGinty

Burns pulls double duty on 'Ash'

Corrections

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

WGA Focus: Guild talks still in the limelight

WGA fights for writers in more than one arena

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

Babs grabs spotlight

DGA honors Poitier

Imax rock doc preem bigger than life

Seymour Kapetansky

Claudia Roberts

SAG will not extend pact by 4 months

Television takes over Pacific post

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

Oscar intrigue hitting the reality wall

A Look Ahead

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

Canuck prod'n rises

Oscar Watch

FCC chair conducts class drill

Sites set at confab

Strike pessimism lifting as talks enter sixth week

Three toss hat in 'Cat' ring

Propaganda spies prix pic

Len Wayland

CAA's Whitesell eyes a new Endeavor

Comden, Green lauded

Tussling teenagers

Turtles gets Promark coin

Venture closes windows

'Hannibal' gets R in Oz

Stone Stanley to shop 'Girls'

WB pulls out of MIP

'Gladiator,' 'Famous' win Eddies

Oliviers on a 'Roll'

Lit properties are still hottest tickets

Haunted by spirits of '70s

Siegfried & Roy ink life pact

Femme oater Egged on

Dwight Whitney

Charles B. FitzSimons

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'

Thiessen climbs aboard Allen pic

Inside Move: New 'Apocalypse' at Cannes

Genre-bending is new game in town

The write stuff

Guild counts on character

Lumet illuminates snowy Israel film fest

Art Directors designate 'Gladiator,' 'Chocolat'

Beacon elects a helmer for politico pic

Rosemary De Camp

Arlene Stadd

Roger Caras

Letter to the Editor: Gerry Lewis

Timeline: Scribe strides

U Music turns to Fair to bolster A&M roster

Robert Weiskopf

Film Discovery Program gains firm footing

Bush league

Alliance Atlantis revs up money machine

Droll characters earn Willard his due

'Color' coordinated

Aspen breaks out the Crystal

Chi Crix laud 'Famous,' 'Tiger'

Miramax snags 'Tangled'

U, RightsLine pact for online library

Digital Media to open L.A. office

Terra Lycos taps Killeen U.S. prexy

Corrections

Pan-African fest focuses on tech

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

KABC hires Vara to be co-anchor

Malibu toasts honorees

Golightly prod'n prexy

SAG nixes agents' demand

Barbara Hershey

Williams spins 3, ColdPlay 2 at Brit Awards

Prism Awards seek aud's votes

Eye buys 'Ray' stay

Mouse snares 'Bears' scribe for 2 more

Ratings over the rainbow

WB buoys Euro pic plan

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

Televisa quiets talkers

S. Africans hit H'w'd

Film cartoonists' union to organize Bohbot

Messier takes tech seriously

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

Messier eyes red

Kevin Bray

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

Mouse lays off 135

Most TV PR group leaders return

Even Stevens?

Sitcom train goes off its laff track

'Jackass' star takes his act to bigscreen

Broadway B.O. posts a hike over holiday

Biz receives mixed signals

Friendly ankles King World

Murdoch making headway in sat platform plans

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

Critical mass

Brockovich, Lagasse shopping for TV shows

Bush pal Racicot joining RIAA legal team

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

Comcast fast lane

Specter of Lecter

Fest to unbutton Newhart's mind in tribute

Scribes likely to say today if talks will go on

2 pact for Latin lit pix

Waiting for green

Lifetime lifts PR topper

KPE taps trio for Gotham headquarters

BET to bow musicvid program

IFilm to allow databases to operate independently

Artisan grabs Barbie vid

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

'Maelstrom' storms Quebec pic kudos

A Look Ahead

Kennedy Center spotlights Blighty

Goodspeed goes Gershwin

EM.TV-Kirch pact slides off autopilot

Zentropa, DRTV addicted to Dogma

Indie reaches final Destination

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

Gallic sat service up

Argentinean Patagonik pix picked

Tropfest showcases shorts

Telemundo to open office with Pramer

'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

'Traffic' vid speeds up

Craven a classic

King World to be a little less Friendly

HBO Films, Team Todd team

Congloms converge

Music vet to exit as WB trims

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

Oz pubcaster thaws prod'n freeze

Televisa mulls upping share in Univision

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'

Inside Move: Malone plugged in

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

Andrew L. Sarra

Gail Fisher

Irving Lande

Michael Bacall

Venice sets Bard card

Grupo Novo, Apex boost Brazil pix o'seas

Gov't sez play ball

Casting a 'Shadow'

Disney takes stake in US Weekly mag

Clinton urges ratings code

D'Works decks out 'Shrek' at ShoWest

Showtime slates 7

$25 mil for Myers in 'Powers 3' play

Teuton auds tire of reality shows

The full Monte

NBC seeks sporting chance

Above the Line: Peter Scarlet

Hanks a lot: Oscar handicap?

Inside Move: Besson beset

Inside Move: Stock searchers hang tough

Actors union bloc under strain

Radie Harris

Patricia Berlly

Warner LeRoy

Bohbot sees cartoonists elect union

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

Mainframe revs rise

HSX bows market research program

Vartan spies ABC 'Alias'

Icon puckers up for 'Kiss'

Studios USA pilots 2 more shows

Isabella Lorenza Lamas

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

Injury leads 'Producers' to drop Orbach

Striking a chord

XFL sacks Peacock's hopes of household victory

Pop vets sound best to Grammys

Japan, Korea find common ground

Strapped exhibs lose co-op spirit

Top exex widen reign in Spain

Fox in the groove with ''70s'

Richard P. Hazard

Robert Enrico

Lee Davis

Sam Wiesenthal

Canuck web CTV to preem Documart at Banff

'Pianist' keys into coin

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

Eye rides high with Grammys

WGA opts to continue talks

Agents rip SAG on tactics

Marco upped to veep, Sony Digital group

USA, TBS tie for 1st basically in Feb.

Showtime raises Rauch

Shandling signs with Endeavor, Gold-Miller

Words finds West Coast

Hayes-hosted 'SNL' boosts NBC sweeps

Escape lands 'Bermuda'

Oscar Watch

'Matrix' orders Italian

NBC, Eye sweep to wins

Fox puts lock on Lightstorm in 5-year reup

Reminiscing about Robards

Richards Woods

Douglas Rask

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

A fresh face

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

Nominee Closeup: "The Visit"

Nominee Closeup: "A House Divided"

Heavy hits $3 mil in financing

'Mole' not enough to boost ABC

AT&T moves ahead on 2 fronts

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

Farina goes to 'Stanford'

Big-ticket pix link Brit rivals

CNN lineup bows young gabfest, profiler

Telefonica financial bow

'Spot' has its day

Disney characters take a sip of Minute Maid

Writers blocked

Barrington baffled by mystery scribe

Gameshow survivors

Lehman's words etched in celluloid

Oscar fun facts

His own L.A. story

Analyzing voters is a Herculean chore

Clarke M. Schumacher (Clark Evans)

'Hannibal's' big meal in Finland

New MTV Central top

Stone Stanley boosts Friedman

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

Harvey's honor far from common

Amazon joins ranks of online tune distributors

WB Online, AmericanGreetings.com pact

Warner Music names Murphy exec VP-CFO

Vet Zelnick will join Echo board

Shaggy holds No. 1

Star-bucks books

Chrysalis bonding, big-time

Titans give digital the ol' college try

Global Crossing taps Rios prexy

The real '70s show

U opens its heart to Addario, Syracuse spec

'Courage' leads Steppenwolf

Film Society honors Fonda

Partygoers revel in sumptuous soirees

After a yearoff, Cates in charge

Rose Freedman

Martin de Maat

Norway auds love 'Brother'

Moore tapped as Disney's U.K. VP

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

Nominee Closeup: Rachelle Farrell

Storybay bows LiteraryLibrary for scribes

Wilson is Col's 'Spy' guy

'Hannibal' goes maxi for a mini

Fox, Fields fire 'Canon'

Tyro filmmakers project gets Greenlight

'Hell' revisited; Eminem gets $4 mil offer

Oscar Night America lets others join in on fun

Cardiff's voluminous work sees the light

Virginia Mansfield

Charles Trenet

'Pinocchio' plans

Brothers in arms

Scribes share their struggles

Hiring picture fuzzy with new FCC chair

Dual tapings double party opportunity

EBay acts to protect c'right

Oscar Watch

Col TriStar raises distrib vet Zucker

Wolf at bay to direct 'Pete'

Love writes Epitaph as court OKs suit

Quake jolts sweeps

WNBC sweeping to win in 2 key Gotham newscasts

Studios USA dethrones 'Cleopatra'

CBS cheering as laff pilots lock hangars

Evan sues over Hughes pic

Contract talks halted

Oscar's permanent home ready for debut next year

Christopher's sets set his work apart

De Laurentiis not foreign to success

Host controls show's tempo

Voted on the island

Scribe's approach: real, collaborative

Oscar Watch

Mull to host ShoWest fete

CNBC, TF1 in talks on money web

Stars sign on to Declaration reading

Big haul for Gaul

Laemmle skeds Oscar shorts

Trustee after Yorn in Giacchetto bankruptcy

Rupe, DirecTV slip gears

'Regis' rises year to year

Digital-delay fray

IFP/West unveils lab roster

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

Gold Reel kudos fete $100 mil grossers

Young, Dish signals crossed

Coppola back in court

Daniels plays it close to the vest

Endemol taps Teuton unit prez

Classified material

U.K.'s ITV2 inks for H'wood content

Reeve Films takes option on 'Extras'

Katzenberg has mixed hopes for Internet

Maresca rockets out of Pittard

Prisa profits up amid new investments

HBO targets Spears for concert spesh

David Hunt

Beatty to give SAG prize

Frog leaps in demo derby

Miramax inks Good pic pact

Theater nods name co-hosts

Austria sets b'cast overseer

Geocast Network Systems shuttering

Damon, Affleck pick 'Summer'

Mob's northbound

Vet managers make new Career moves

Warners ups Nelson

Intermedia is 'Number One'

Bridges turns 'Normal'

'Mole' finale lifts ABC out of darkness

Doug Hutchinson

Peacock pilots Louis-Dreyfus deal

Collette has closer look at U's 'Boy'

Nexo, New Line ink

Kennedy slates Sondheim

In-Motion buys global rights to 'Wheels'

'Mex' numero uno

Paul Is Dead

Now or Never

Ryan Adams

Stravinsky Festival

Copacabana

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

Saved

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

Luna

Strike Up the Band

Giulio Cesare

Jeff Beck

Nora Roberts' Sanctuary

Dave Frishberg

Some of My Best Friends

Stacey Kent

Bells Are Ringing

High Dive

The Mexican

Mamma Mia!

Unfair Competition

Big Apple

NOFX

Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

Urban Zulu Mambo

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle

The Lone Gunmen

Driving While Black in Beverly Hills

The Sopranos

15 Minutes

The Swamp

Bobbi Boland