News

Jun
07 2001

Dustin Hoffman: director

By: Jason Alcorn
2:18pm EDT
According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Dustin Hoffman will be going behind the camera for the first time for Disney's upcoming legal drama Personal Injuries, which is adapted from the Scott Turow novel of the same name. The film, which will...
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Jun
07 2001

"Kristen" attracts an audience

By: Jason Alcorn
10:36am EDT
NBC's new summer sitcom Kristen rode Frasier's coattails Tuesday night to a second-place finish in its 8:30 p.m. ET time slot, according to Variety. The new comedy, starring Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth as an up-and-coming actress in...
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Jun
07 2001

Hanks premieres "Brothers" in Normandy

By: Jason Alcorn
10:36am EDT
Tom Hanks, who produced, wrote and directed segments of the upcoming HBO World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, premiered the epic on Wednesday in Normandy, France, site of the D-Day invasion. Hanks told Reuters: "We hope to entertain those...
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Jun
07 2001

Barker staying on "Price is Right"

By: Jason Alcorn
10:35am EDT
Bob Barker, legendary host of the CBS game show The Price is Right, will be sticking around on the show for five more years. Variety reports that Barker, 77, signed a contract with CBS and Pearson Television to remain host and executive producer of...
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Jun
07 2001

More Eminem controversy

By: Guylaine Cadorette
10:17am EDT
In a decision that may come as a surprise to many radio stations that assume a label's edited version is broadcast friendly, federal regulators fined a Colorado radio station $7,000 for playing an edited version of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady...
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Jun
06 2001

TV politicians: on the rise

By: Jason Alcorn
2:08pm EDT
A new trend in TV viewing and network programming is currently begging the question: are American audiences getting smarter...or simply more impatient? A study released Tuesday by the Partnership for Trust in Government suggests both TV...
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Jun
06 2001

Napster/MusicNet team up

By: Kit Bowen
2:01pm EDT
Popular music-swapping website Napster is seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Having spent the last year in court battling an injunction filed against them to remove copyrighted songs from their site, Napster is moving ahead to provide their...
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Jun
06 2001

WGA okays contract

By: Guylaine Cadorette
2:00pm EDT
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted in favor of a new contract, reducing the likelihood of an industry-wide strike. According to the Associated Press, a landslide 92 percent of the record 4,128 votes was cast in support of the May 4 agreement...
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Jun
06 2001

Cruise files $100M lawsuit

By: Erika Gimenes
12:10pm EDT
Tom Cruise has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit on Monday against a man known as Michael Davis, who allegedly offered to sell nonexistent homosexual tapes of the actor. In the lawsuit, Cruise said Davis sent e-mails to several U.S...
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Jun
05 2001

Four fresh new faces for "Ally McBeal"

By: Noah Davis
3:05pm EDT
A major cast makeover is in the works for David E Kelley's dramedy Ally McBeal. Four new faces are set to join the cast full time--Josh Hopkins (The Perfect Storm), Regina Hall (Scary Movie), James Marsden (X-Men) and Julianne Nicholson (The...
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Jun
05 2001

Ratings hit flat note for Tonys

By: Noah Davis
3:01pm EDT
The ratings for Sunday's Tony Awards on CBS barely beat out last year's record low, despite all the hoopla and hype surrounding the landslide of awards given to The Producers. The Tonys grabbed a share of 6.4, just up from last year's dismal 6.1...
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Jun
05 2001
Rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs is being sued for more child support by model Kim Porter. Porter, who is the mother of 3-year-old Christian Casey Combs, is asking a family court for the maximum allowed by law--17 percent of Combs' adjusted gross income...
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Jun
05 2001

DreamWorks signs De Luca

By: Noah Davis
2:54pm EDT
DreamWorks has finalized negotiations with Michael De Luca. The recently fired studio chief of New Line Cinema was named head of production at Spielberg's DreamWorks, says the Associated Press. "I'm extremely excited to join this distinguished and...
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