Table of Contents
Week of 10/15/2005

Articles

Tom Hanks awarded

 

L.A. Fashion Week kicks off

 

Denver mounts summit

 

Fest outgrows turf

 

Watering holes dry up

 

B.O. up; 'Pan' takes flight

 

Fancy footwork can't save 'Dancing'

 

Webs tune back in to scripted fare

 

Ten takes the knife to drama

 

Exec's eclectic mix puts the plus in Canal Plus

 

Williams phones it in as concert goes mobile

 

BBC's fee stinger

 

Skedding laffers is a serious biz

 

Five bets on Yank fare

 

TV watches as games take heat

 

Nets face gray matter

 

Morocco jumpstarts genre pix

 

Owen stacks her bookshelves

 

Spies investigate showbiz treasures

 

Scribes find 'Grace' in revival

 

A very fashionable rollout

 

Gambling with the movie god

 

Warner rides pricey pic tide

 

Hampton heatwave

 

Biz up; 'Couple' 876g

 

Return to 'Piazza' sheds more light

 

Court convenes 50th

 

Discovery goes local in Latin America

 

In Dutch over pubcasters

 

Cable finds cachet in catchy pix

 

Brazil hosts Yank shoot

 

TV Globo turns skeins to features

 

'Wallace & Gromit' animates o'seas auds

 

Intimate fest leaves good impression

 

Coronation was a royal challenge for nets

 

UIP claims no funny bunny in U.K.

 

'Kong' towers over Gotham confab

 

BMG's big Lack attack

 

Jolly Roger's grand plan

 

Helmers in a daze

 

Talking the lingo

 

Expired slanguage

 

Snoopy

 

Popeye

 

Felix the Cat

 

Betty Boop

 

Jack Warner

 

Harry Cohn

 

Samuel Goldwyn

 

Michael Balcon

 

Clint Eastwood

 

Alexander Korda

 

Dino De Laurentiis

 

Val Lewton

 

David O. Selznick

 

Family trees

 

Collective memories

 

The ripple effect

 

Letter from the editor

 

Letter from the president & publisher

 

Stevie Wonder

 

Oprah Winfrey

 

John Wayne

 

Shirley Temple

 

Elizabeth Taylor

 

Quentin Tarantino

 

Barbra Streisand

 

Jimmy Stewart

 

Tupac Shakur

 

Will Rogers

 

Sidney Poitier

 

Edith Piaf

 

Pac Man

 

Paul Newman

 

The Marx Brothers

 

Edward R. Murrow

 

Steve McQueen

 

Madonna

 

Sophia Loren

 

Little Richard

 

Bruce Lee

 

Gene Kelly

 

Janis Joplin

 

Michael Jackson

 

Harry Houdini

 

Billie Holiday

 

Audrey Hepburn

 

Katharine Hepburn

 

Woody Guthrie

 

D.W. Griffith

 

Clark Gable

 

Aretha Franklin

 

Federico Fellini

 

Clint Eastwood

 

Bob Dylan

 

Kirk Douglas

 

Marlene Dietrich

 

Bette Davis

 

Bill Cosby

 

Kurt Cobain

 

Johnny Cash

 

Lenny Bruce

 

Chuck Berry

 

Jack Benny

 

Brigitte Bardot

 

James Dean

 

Marlon Brando

 

Humphrey Bogart

 

Here, there & everywhere

 

Mr. Magoo

 

The Simpsons

 

Arthur Miller

 

Cole Porter

 

Edward Albee

 

Neil Simon

 

Ira & George Gershwin

 

George Abbott

 

August Wilson

 

Agnes de Mille

 

Bob Fosse

 

George S. Kaufman

 

Harold Clurman

 

Helen Hayes

 

Ethel Merman

 

Alfred Drake

 

Mary Martin

 

John Hammond

 

Shoot the messenger: Robert Evans

 

Rising above celebrity: Warren Beatty

 

Rising above celebrity: Lionel Chetwynd

 

Sahl's dissentury: delusion vs. reality

 

Pop pabulum: We're so sorry, Doctor Albert

 

Army Archerd: Top L. A. hot spots

 

Hollywood eatery still tasty with biz hot shots

 

Everybody's in on the act

 

Pop! goes the culture

 

Grant Tinker

 

Ted Turner

 

Sylvester Weaver

 

The Apollonian spirit of the Beatles

 

You ain't seen nothin' yet …

 

Sam Phillips

 

Goddard Lieberson

 

Alan Livingston

 

Florenz Ziegfeld

 

Roger L. Stevens & Robert Whitehead

 

George M. Cohan & Sam Harris

 

Marcy Carsey & Tom Werner

 

James Burrows

 

Desi Arnaz

 

Roone Arledge

 

Lorne Michaels

 

Roger King

 

Garry Marshall

 

Geraldine Laybourne

 

Rod Serling

 

William S. Paley

 

Shoot the messenger: Norman Brokaw

 

Fred Silverman

 

Shoot the messenger: Harvey Weinstein

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

Dick Clark

 

Noel Coward

 

Has showbiz changed the world?

 

Porky Pig

 

The Flintstones

 

Bugs Bunny

 

Darryl F. Zanuck

 

Lew Wasserman

 

Hal B. Wallis

 

Irving Thalberg

 

Marcus Loew and Nicholas Schenck

 

Louis B. Mayer

 

Everyone's an expert

 

Pierre Braunberger

 

John Houseman

 

Henry Blanke

 

Sam Spiegel

 

Arthur Freed

 

Affairs to remember

 

Hank Williams

 

Mae West

 

Orson Welles

 

Rudolph Valentino

 

The Supremes

 

Igor Stravinsky

 

Steven Spielberg

 

Frank Sinatra

 

The Sex Pistols

 

Mickey Rooney

 

The Rolling Stones

 

Rodgers & Hammerstein

 

Robert Redford

 

Mary Pickford

 

Laurence Olivier

 

Jack Nicholson

 

Marcello Mastroianni

 

Bob Marley

 

Jerry Lewis

 

Laurel & Hardy

 

Lassie

 

Grace Kelly

 

Al Jolson

 

Robert Johnson

 

Bob Hope & Bing Crosby

 

Alfred Hitchcock

 

Jimi Hendrix

 

Edith Head

 

Vaclav Havel

 

Cary Grant

 

Greta Garbo

 

Judy Garland

 

Duke Ellington

 

Miles Davis

 

Walter Cronkite

 

Gary Cooper

 

Ray Charles

 

Johnny Carson

 

Maria Callas

 

James Cagney

 

Irving Berlin

 

Josephine Baker

 

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

 

Pedro Almodovar

 

Woody Allen

 

Elvis Presley

 

Mickey Mouse

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

Charlie Chaplin

 

Lucille Ball

 

Louis Armstrong

 

Icons of the Century

 

The Pink Panther

 

It's character that counts

 

Leonard Bernstein

 

Eugene O'Neill

 

Tennessee Williams

 

George Balanchine

 

Stephen Sondheim

 

Michael Bennett

 

Elia Kazan

 

Jerome Robbins

 

Hal Prince

 

Laurette Taylor

 

Bert Lahr

 

The Lunts

 

Zero Mostel

 

Paul Robeson

 

The Barrymores

 

Clive Davis

 

Ahmet Ertegun

 

Leonard & Phil Chess

 

Berry Gordy

 

Shoot the messenger: Jack Valenti

 

Shoot the messenger: Bob Shaye

 

Rising above celebrity: Ben Affleck

 

Back to the future

 

In Barnum's footsteps

 

Influence peddlers

 

Brandon Tartikoff

 

Aaron Spelling

 

Best of the best

 

Mo Ostin

 

Russell Simmons & Rick Rubin

 

Cathode galaxy's riches

 

Joseph Papp

 

David Merrick

 

Cameron Mackintosh

 

Therese Helburn & Lawrence Langner

 

Charles Frohman

 

Kermit Bloomgarden

 

David Belasco

 

Steven Bochco

 

Norman Lear

 

David Sarnoff

 

Leslie Moonves

 

Shoot the messenger: Jeff Zucker

 

Shoot the messenger: Sherry Lansing

 

William Hanna & Joseph Barbera

 

Leonard Goldenson

 

Most likely to succeed

 

Andrew Lloyd Webber

 

Fred Friendly & Don Hewitt

 

James L. Brooks

 

John Osborne

 

Harold Pinter

 

NBC U numbers take a fall

 

Conan cozies to Young

 

Wolverine on a world tour

 

Par hits home with original DVD preems

 

'Surface' gets more air

 

USA explores 'Virgin' territory

 

'Chief' chief chooses team

 

iPod lightning rod

 

Rocky's still fighting for respect

 

Mart on a tech trek

 

No guarantees for New Montreal FilmFest

 

Pix, doc greenlit with Swedish coin

 

Kudos for Elvis songwriters, Badalamenti

 

AFI awards move to Nine

 

China film fests announce entrants

 

Like two peas in a 'pod

 

Aussie 'Boy'

 

A new reign in Spain

 

'Live' wins Vancouver fest award

 

Web man for Dimension

 

Sony exhib relations unspools senior VP

 

Stephen Adly Guirgis

 

Sarah Lancaster

 

Alan Ritchson

 

Billy Drago

 

Michael J. Fox

 

Eddie George

 

Superheroes, space supreme at kid mart

 

Baton will be passed at Hollywood Bowl

 

'Gromit' gets a leg up on o'seas competish

 

Roadshow delays 'Wolf'

 

Pusan fest balloons

 

E! signs off on vidgame skeins

 

Digital Media Group, Miditech ink deal

 

Reveille sounds for execs, deals

 

Domino lives on

 

'Country' time

 

Brit pix cross the Channel

 

'Nanny' lends a hand

 

'Flight' night

 

Italo fest honors Clooney

 

'Les Mis' hits a milestone

 

Planning guide

 

Will D'Works deal get a second wind?

 

Par sends Dunst to Iraq

 

Poker in the cards at AOL

 

'Zone' finds syndie sellers

 

ABC Family a real circus

 

Strike shuts Italo exhibs

 

Toronto transactions

 

London's sales shingles shuffle

 

Bazaar spinoffs

 

Fortress, Imaginarium plot horror heist

 

Col moves on 'Manny'

 

Rudin making 'Beauty' mark

 

Swinging back to TV

 

Kennedy remixes reality

 

Mexican pair line up TV skein, doc

 

Bridges spans Bollywood pic

 

Denver tuner goes Gotham

 

Noah Aaron Winters Morley

 

Going ape for 'Kong'

 

Majors and minors mob Mipcom

 

Peron pic prized at Canary fest

 

Docusoap zooms in on Russia's rich

 

F&M rides to RTV's rescue

 

Hot albums buoy EMI

 

Canal Plus, RAI buy 'Dresden'

 

Alphabet rolls on Sunday

 

Herb Rogers

 

David Case

 

Verna Chilton

 

Fiennes a 'Constant' gentleman

 

Neil sets sights on rights to Brit TV

 

B'way B.O. slides but 'Wicked' reaps green

 

Regal adding to board

 

BSkyB logs on

 

'Night' moves

 

Comings and goings

 

Cuban revolution

 

'Elizabethtown' Premiere

 

Inside Move: Lunch with Rupe's on the auction block

 

Fox leaps into digital dimension

 

Atkins in for Jones without 'Doubt'

 

B'way tix prices on the rise

 

'Pierrepoint' hangs at IFC

 

Jack Peter Goss

 

Mouse roars at Croisette

 

Pubcaster ARD tops Teuton TV nods

 

'Sueno' bueno at Mexico's Morelia

 

Sony calls 'action' on Sky channel

 

Col, MGM film rights in the Zone

 

Media, TV fests skedded for June

 

Al-Jazeera Intl. taps journo Ibrahim

 

Clinton, Mirren to present at I-Emmys

 

Eyeworks reclaims stake from RTL

 

Reveille beefs up int'l side

 

Jewish fest seeks youth

 

Inside Move: Go right ahead - order the lobster

 

Exec to try shingle life

 

Two for the money

 

Court TV rules o'seas

 

Baldwins jazz up Ephron's 'Sunday'

 

Funny femme finds a home