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Jul

13 2001

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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Jul

13 2001

Apparently, no matter how hard it tried to spice things up, the German TV network RTL II was unable to persuade viewers that watching contestants lose weight was any more interesting than watching paint dry. The channel announced Thursday that it...

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Jul

13 2001

The Score is scoring some high marks with critics. (How high it will score at the box office against Final Fantasy is another question altogether.) Rita Kempley writes in the Washington Post: "It's smart, sleek and sharply directed. Even if it...

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Jul

13 2001

The venerable media company E.W. Scripps reported lower-than-expected results for the second quarter as a result in the advertising downturn but noted that its cable TV networks, including Home and Garden Television and the Food Network posted...

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Jul

13 2001

While other TV news programs were increasing their coverage of the Chandra Levy story -- NBC's Dateline has been devoting a segment to the case since Sunday -- The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather is continuing to ignore it. The program's producer...

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Jul

13 2001

Justin Sebik, the Big Brother contestant who was kicked out of the house for putting a kitchen knife to the throat of another contestant, Krista Stegall, was arrested in Bayonne, N.J., in 1997 on two counts of robbery but was not indicted, the...

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Jul

13 2001

Humble and sincere Bobby (Favreau) an aspiring boxer and Ricky (Vaughn) his obnoxious loser friend work construction for a two-bit mob boss named Max (Peter Falk). Bobby just wants to make a decent wage to support his stripper girlfriend...

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Jul

13 2001

Screen Actors Guild president William Daniels will step down from his position at the end of his first and only term, Variety reports. "I knew from the beginning that I would only be serving one term. I just never talked about it. I don't have...

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Jul

13 2001

You'd think the cast of The West Wing would rejoice after Thursday's Emmy nominations presentation--as the show was given the best drama nod, yet again. Instead, actors Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford and John Spencer have...

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Jul

13 2001

Rapper Eminem, whose new album Devil's Night with hip-hop crew D12 currently tops the Billboard 200 charts, to Germany's Der Spiegel magazine: "I'm a really nice guy. My rage attacks are obviously symptoms of the so-called Tourette's syndrome...

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Jul

12 2001

Call it the calm before the spinosauraus attack. With Jurassic Park III opening Wednesday, this weekend's box office victor should not make itself too comfortable in the top spot. Next week, it's T-Rex chow. Given its strong but hardly...

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Jul

12 2001

Metallica and Dr. Dre have settled their legal disputes with the controversial online song-swapping service Napster, ending all legal actions between the parties, it was announced Thursday. "It's time to end the court fight and shake hands,"...

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Jul

12 2001

It's 2065. The earth has been taken over by phantom-like aliens against whom the dwindling human population is powerless save for a super-weapon that could destroy the entire planet. But Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na) and her mentor Dr. Sid...

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