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Following Saturday's space shuttle Columbia disaster, Paramount Pictures has decided to pull its trailer for its sci-fi thriller The Core because it shows the space shuttle in jeopardy. Also: Paula poundstone Michael Jackson Mondays in the Sun Fernando Leon de Aranoa Danny DeVito Jersey Films Beatrice Welles Citizen Kane Dawson's Creek

What will September bring? Plenty, say the major TV networks as they begin their weekly series of meetings in New York known as the TV "upfront," hyping their 2001-02 TV schedules to advertisers. As much as 80 percent of next season's ad inventory is bought during this time. NBC and the WB have announced their lineups, with ABC scheduled to make its presentation Tuesday. NBC NBC will shake things up a little. It has lessened its sitcom load by scheduling only eight comedy series,

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 12, 2000 -- You can just imagine the meeting of NBC executives as they contemplate making a dent in the game-show-fueled ABC juggernaut: "What can we do to really lay the 'Smackdown' in the ratings? Who or what is big enough, tough enough, 'electrifying' enough to send Regis Philbin into the kitchen to open up that fridge and pour himself a nice tall glass of SHUT-UP JUICE?!" The answer? "Freaks and Geeks" is back Mondays! And The Rock is hosting "Saturday Night Live