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News, May 6: "Frasier" May Be Nearing Its End, Al Pacino Voted Greatest Film Star, Oprah Winfrey Looks at Two More Years, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey. Harrison Ford Jack Nicholson Eric McCormack Tina Fey Oprah Winfrey Cedric the Entertainer Omar Epps
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Miramax Films announced Tuesday that Chicago, which last month picked up six Academy Awards including Best Picture, is now the highest domestic grossing film in the studio's history. Also: Bob Hope Steven Bing Melissa Ethridge Tammy Lynn Michaels Debra Messing Eric McCormack Megan Mullally Sean Hayes Will & Grace TNN Spike TV Paula Zahn Bob Dylan The Dead Martin Scorsese St. Agnes' Stand Charles Randolph Jennifer Aniston
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Emmy nominations for 2001-2002
Eric McCormack Jennifer Aniston Bernie Mac Martin Sheen Matt LeBlanc Jennifer Garner Allison Janney Laura Innes Keifer Sutherland Sarah Jessica Parker
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The only thing bigger than the show itself is the bevy of parties that follow the Academy Awards. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Ed Burns, Mel Gibson, Oprah Winfrey, George Lucas, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, the Backstreet Boys, Ben Stiller, Tobey Maguire
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Jennifer Lopez returned to the top of the charts Wednesday with the debut of her third album J to Tha L-O! The Remixes
Jennifer Lopez Gwyneth Paltrow Meg Ryan In the Cut Cuba Gooding Jr Fighting Temptation Snow Dogs 2 Adam Sandler Winona Ryder Mr. Deeds Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines NYPD Blue Futurama Matt Groening Miss America Katie Harman Erick McCormack Janet Holden Johnny Depp Vanessa Paradis Al Roker Deborah Roberts
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Dave Matthews Band Bon Jovi Richie Sambora Lenny Kravitz Mick Jagger Gwen Stefani at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the second annual My VH1 Music Awards
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Sean Combs premiered his new collection of men's underwear, pajamas and robes on Wednesday at Bloomingdale's.
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HOLLYWOOD, May 24, 2000 -- It’s the kiss that’s on everyone’s lips this week. After a season of teenage angst and longing, tonight’s season finale of “Dawson’s Creek” (8 p.m. EDT/PDT, WB) features the first passionate homosexual kiss between two men to ever take place on primetime television. In the episode, titled “True Love,” Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith), who came out last season after briefly dating Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), shares an onscreen kiss with friend-turned-boyfriend Ethan (Adam Kauffman).
No less than the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has branded the smooch "historic." And while the kiss between Jack and Ethan might indeed be primetimes's first romantic kiss between two men, it's hardly the first gay kiss on the tube.
Herein are some examples of primetime television’s gay and lesbian smooches:
"Melrose Place": On May 18, 1994, Matt (Dou
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28, 2001 -- Grace is getting a new boyfriend.
Emmy-winning Woody Harrelson has signed on to do four episodes of the NBC hit sitcom "Will & Grace," playing the boyfriend of Grace (Debra Messing).
Everyone on the show is very excited about Harrelson joining the cast. "[We] here at "Will & Grace" had a woody over Woody," said series creator/executive producer David Kohan. "It feels like a real coup."
Harrelson will play a new resident of Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace's building, who at first antagonizes Grace but eventually forms a romantic attachment.
The role wasn't initially written for Harrelson because the producers held out little hope of landing him for the part. Now it is being tailored specifically for him, and writers are adding more sex appeal. "[Harrelson] can generate heat between himself and an actress without even trying," said K
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PASADENA Calif., July 20, 2000 - Substance reigned over style as NBC unveiled its new Fall lineup to the media this week. Gone were the matching color schemes and meals by the pool that ABC employed to fete reporters just a few days ago; in their stead, there were neon peacocks and buffet trays with sternos. And the consensus among critics at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel was that ABC surely hung window dressing on everything because it only had four new series to pump. NBC, on the other hand, needed no frills to roll out seven new series and two miniseries.
Not surprisingly, the Q-and-A sessions were shorter, with less time for breathing in between. Trashy dramatist Aaron Spelling unveiled his high-camp "Titans," a Dallas-for-the-millennium evening soap with vixens, sex and greed, and starring Yasmine Bleeth, Casper Van Dien ("Sleepy Hollow") and Victoria Principal. Critics broke into
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14, 2000 -- You loved his cameo-filled opening sequence, the side gags, his effervescent personality and, most of all, the way he made the usually tedious Oscar telecast fun and fast.
So who isn't going to miss Billy Crystal just a little bit at this year's Academy Awards?
"I like Billy Crystal. I know [he won't be hosting], but I'd like to talk to him about that because he is my favorite. I think he is the best," Jennifer Love Hewitt told Hollywood.com at the Fire and Ice Ball for cancer research on Tuesday night.
Crystal said earlier this month that he absolutely, definitely and positively would not return to emcee the Academy Awards this year due to scheduling conflicts.
And if that's not enough, previous host Whoopi Goldberg has given her "no, thank you" to the hosting job.
So what is the Academy to do for a suitable replacement
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24, 2000 -- Will Will Truman get lucky? Will Chandler and Monica tie the knot? Will Dawson and Pacey make up? And what's up with "Popular"?!
Those are some of the questions that have been posed and that will be answered during the fall season of television.
Herein is a critique of the fall seasons of 10 TV series that Hollywood.com staffers watch on a weekly basis:
"Will & Grace," NBC, Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET
Is "Will & Grace," the as-of-late-sometimes-hilarious sitcom about a gay man named Will Truman (Eric McCormack, who looks tan and really sexy this season), his best gay friend Jack McFarland (the always funny, over the top Emmy winner Sean Hayes), his best female friend Grace Adler (Debra Messing), and her lush of a socialite "employee" Karen Walker (Emmy winner Megan Mullally), falling from, er, grace this season? "Will & Grace" sadly ha
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 3, 2000 -- Star of The Practice, Camryn Manheim, will be a special guest star on an episode of NBC's Will & Grace this November portraying Will's (Eric McCormack) crazy psychic.
In the episode titled "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed," Will, against his better judgement, uses a gift certificate from Grace (Debra Messing) to seek a psychic about his future and runs into Manheim, an absent-minded psychic who works from her beat up living room and whose predictions leave him reeling.
This isn't the fist guest appearence on a TV series for the Emmy Award winner. Manheim has also been seen on Ally McBeal, Touched By an Angel, Chicago Hope, and Law & Order. It probably won't be her last either.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 10, 2000 -- The crime spree is over. "The Sopranos" will have to kiss someone else's ring -- namely, the big boss man's, the president of the United States of TV America.
"The West Wing" was named Best Drama Series at the 52nd Annual Emmy Awards, capping a night wherein the political drama dominated, save for one major setback when James Gandolfini of "The Sopranos" bested Martin Sheen in the competition for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
"I think the Academy has an affinity for slightly overweight bald men," Gandolfini quipped onstage.
Gandolfini's win was the lone bright spot for "The Sopranos," which otherwise got whacked -- like when Sela Ward of ABC’s "Once and Again" beat both Edie Falco and Lorraine Bracco for the Best Actress in a Drama Series Emmy. "The Sopranos" came into the night with 18 nominations.
Hollywood.com's Sandy Kenyo