News

Jul
15 2001

Movies coming to ESPN

By: Lew Irwin
8:26am EDT
Cable sports network ESPN is expected to announce Friday that it will produce its first made-for-television movie and make other alterations to its programming in an effort to regain viewers, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. ESPN President...
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Jul
15 2001

ESPN news to look like ESPN.com

By: Lew Irwin
8:26am EDT
ESPN is planning to revamp its cable news channel on Sept. 7 to resemble its appearance on the Internet, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Video news footage is expected to occupy a window on about a third of the ESPNews screen, while the...
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Jul
15 2001
When News Corp Deputy COO Lachlan Murdoch learned that a championship rugby match being held in Brisbane, Australia on July 1 was not being televised in the United States -- after he had already invited friends to his New York apartment to see it...
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Jul
15 2001
The Hollywood-based Film and Television Action Committee is circulating a petition urging the U.S. government to impose tariffs on films that receive Canadian tax breaks. As reported July 8 by the Canadian Press wire service, members of the...
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Jul
15 2001

Sony announces flat-screen TV

By: Lew Irwin
8:26am EDT
Sony has launched its flat-screen wireless TV and computer monitor, the Airboard, in Japan, beating out other manufacturers who have similar products in the works. Users can watch over-the-air television programs on the 10-inch screen or use it...
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Jul
15 2001

Readers furious over critic's review

By: Lew Irwin
8:26am EDT
New York Daily News film writer Jami Bernard, who slammed The Fast and the Furious in her review, only to see it become perhaps the most profitable movie of the year, printed some of the responses Monday to her review -- grammar and spelling left...
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Jul
15 2001

He Said, She Said: Video Game Movies

By: Noah Davis
8:26am EDT
By Kit Bowen & Noah Davis Hollywood.com Staff Two celebrated video games have just been released as movies, Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We sat down with our intrepid reviewers Kit Bowen and Noah Davis to...
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Jul
15 2001
Comedian Roseanne, to Esquire magazine, about the multiple personality disorder that has afflicted her since childhood: "It's like living in a maze. It's like that old woman who keeps adding on to her house ... But the parts don't get along...
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Jul
13 2001

Napster timeline

By: Guylaine Cadorette
3:41pm EDT
Here are some highlights from the Napster saga: · May 1999: College dropout Shawn Fanning, 19, and some friends start the Napster Inc. file-sharing service, which gains overnight popularity on the Internet. · Dec. 7, 1999: The recording...
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Jul
13 2001

Hollywood.com Sounds Off: Napster

By: Guylaine Cadorette
3:41pm EDT
Things always seem to come out even-stevens for Napster, the peer-to-peer, song-swapping service. Where is Napster headed? With each new judgment against it, a new deal is inked somewhere else. On Wednesday, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel barred the...
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Jul
13 2001

News Roundup: July 12

By: Robert Sims
2:19pm EDT
In Court A Buffalo, N.Y., grand jury indicted rapper and aspiring actor DMX on a charge of failing to appear at Cheektowaga Town Court to begin serving jail time for a traffic conviction last year, The Associated Press reports. DMX...
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Jul
13 2001

Movie reviews: "Legally Blonde"

By: Lew Irwin
2:16pm EDT
The Toronto Star assigned Daphne Gordon, its "Totally Blonde Entertainment Reporter," to write its review of Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon: It begins: "I've decided that while it's fun being beautiful, and it's fun being smart...
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Jul
13 2001

Comedy writer Goldman dies at 81

By: Lew Irwin
2:16pm EDT
Veteran TV comedy writer Hal Goldman, whose credits were featured prominently on the Jack Benny television show, died on June 27 at the age of 81, the Associated Press reported Thursday. He won three Emmys -- in 1958 and 1959 for the Benny show and...
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