News

Jun
25 2001

"Hard" decision for Majors series

By: Guylaine Cadorette
10:41am EDT
New Line Television has pulled the plug on an upcoming fall action show starring Lee Majors and Thomas Calabro, Variety reports. Hard Knox had been cleared on TV stations in more than 90 percent of the country but the company cited difficulty with...
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Jun
25 2001

BBC to recreate life in the trenches

By: Guylaine Cadorette
10:40am EDT
The BBC is planning a documentary that will attempt to recreate the atrocities of the World War I trenches, the BBC news reports. The show will follow 25 young men in a trench, where they will be exposed to tear gas, sleep deprivation, rats and...
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Jun
25 2001

"Mummy" star goes undercover

By: Guylaine Cadorette
10:40am EDT
Actor Oded Fehr, who played Ardeth Bay in The Mummy films, will join the cast of the new NBC drama UC: Undercover, Variety reports. Fehr will play Donovan, a strict FBI agent heading up the show's unconventional undercover unit. Fehr will...
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Jun
24 2001

Robinson's Welsh "Link" showdown

By: Jason Alcorn
10:05am EDT
The Weakest Link host Anne Robinson cannot simply say "goodbye" to the Welsh. Robinson, who still hosts the BBC version of the popular game show, will host an all-Welsh version of Link in an effort to calm relations between her and the Welsh...
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Jun
24 2001

Rich's estate drums up lawsuit

By: Jason Alcorn
9:54am EDT
The family of the late drumming legend Buddy Rich filed a lawsuit Friday against RCA Records and its parent company, BMG music, alleging charges of fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and intentional misrepresentation of royalties...
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Jun
24 2001

Garcia's guitars strike legal chord

By: Jason Alcorn
9:48am EDT
They could be worth millions to die-hard Grateful Dead fans-but, for the time being, they're staying in the hands of the man who built them. According to The Associated Press, five guitars owned and played by the late Jerry Garcia are in the legal...
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Jun
24 2001

Aimster wins legal victory

By: Jason Alcorn
9:45am EDT
Score one for Aimster. An Albany, N.Y., judge has ruled that the Internet song-swap service has a legitimate reason to file a copyright infringement suit against the major record companies. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn refused pleas from...
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Jun
24 2001

Wells out as WGA president

By: Robert Sims
9:44am EDT
The current president of the Writers Guild of America, ER and West Wing producer John Wells, will not seek re-election in September. Likewise, the WGA's current vice president, Dan Petrie Jr.--who himself once held the position of president--will...
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Jun
24 2001

Game shows to double their pleasure

By: Noah Davis
7:02am EDT
The show that reinvigorated the primetime quiz show genre and its most recent, well-hyped competitor will now duke it out in syndication. Buena Vista Television's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and NBC's Weakest Link are poised to start their...
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Jun
24 2001

Russell Crowe to rock Texas

By: Jason Alcorn
7:02am EDT
Russell Crowe's rock band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, has scheduled their next gig: at a Texas girl's birthday party. The Oscar winner and his band will perform at Texas Gov. Rick Perry's celebration of his daughter's birthday, to be held Aug. 18...
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Jun
24 2001

Keaton gives up on romance

By: Jason Alcorn
7:01am EDT
Diane Keaton--who is currently directing pilots for Fox Television--has given up on the notion of "till death do us part," The Associated Press reports. In the July/August edition of More magazine, Keaton said she no longer believes that she's...
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Jun
24 2001

New York's top 100 single women

By: Jason Alcorn
7:01am EDT
An eclectic group of women top New York entertainment magazine Manhattan File's list of the Big Apple's 100 most eligible New York bachelorettes, which will be released next week. Hip-hop vixen Li'l Kim and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky...
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Jun
24 2001

Zoo contradicts Stone's husband

By: Jason Alcorn
7:01am EDT
The Los Angeles Zoo has contradicted an account given by Sharon Stone's husband, Phil Bronstein, that he fought off a attack by a 7-foot Komodo dragon without the help of zoo officials, according to Saturday's Los Angeles Times. A zoo...
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