News

Jun
01 2001

Cahners pink slips employees

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
Cahners Publishing, whose trade publications include Variety and Broadcasting & Cable, said Wednesday that it is pink-slipping 140 employees, representing about 3 percent of its work force. The company also eliminated an honor-system policy of...
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Jun
01 2001

"Star" offers Blake $100,000

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
Supermarket tabloid The Star has offered actor Robert Blake $100,000 to take a lie detector test in connection with the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Neither Blake nor his attorneys have responded to the offer. In an interview with...
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Jun
01 2001

"Big Brother" censored

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
The live daily telecasts of the hit reality show Big Brother on the U.K.'s digital channel E4 have easily become the most censored shows in TV history, the London Daily Mirror reported Thursday. Broadcast on a 10-minute delay to allow the station...
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Jun
01 2001

Porn site pays Anderson and Michaels

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
The Internet porn site Internet Entertainment Group has settled a lawsuit brought against it by former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Bret Michaels, the lead singer of Poison, for "a seven-figure sum" for attempting to sell video of the couple...
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Jun
01 2001

No "Survivor" backlash

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
Following the release of a deposition by Survivor contestant Dirk Been in which he acknowledged being influenced by producer Mark Burnett to change a key vote during the production of the show, CBS has received no letters and only two email...
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Jun
01 2001

Smiley to land at ABC

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
Former BET talk-show host Tavis Smiley, who was fired by the black cable network last March after he sold an interview to ABC's PrimeTime Thursday, is close to a deal that would see him hosting a daytime talk show on ABC as well as contributing to...
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Jun
01 2001

ABC's Brown joins CNN

By: Lew Irwin
7:17am EDT
ABC News veteran Aaron Brown, familiar to many as the anchor of the Saturday edition of World News Tonight, has been nabbed by CNN, which is expected to feature him in an hour-long evening newscast beginning next fall, according to published...
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Jun
01 2001

Today's quote: McCartney on Lennon

By: Erika Gimenes
6:38am EDT
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, to Reuters, about the death of friend and bandmate John Lennon. "Since John died, the natural thing--and it is exactly what he didn't want to happen--is that he has become a bit of a martyr. You cannot help it."
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May
31 2001

Double Take Review

By: Mauricio Minotta
3:11pm EDT
There's nothing more annoying than watching a film and realizing you've already seen the best scenes in the trailer. Daryl Chase (Jones) is a stand-up banking professional who enjoys his fine Italian suits and his Perrier. But his world gets...
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May
31 2001

Spears and the Pope, finally together

By: Guylaine Cadorette
11:52am EDT
Britany Spears, 'N Sync and Faith Hill will be among several artists to read prayers by Pope John Paul II on a spoken-word CD due out at Christmas. The CD will serve as a companion piece to The Private Prayer Books of John Paul II, a seven-volume...
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May
31 2001

Bruckheimer inks TV deal

By: Noah Davis
10:59am EDT
Jerry Bruckheimer isn't content on ruling the big screen. Now he's set his sights on the small screen, as well. Fresh off the blockbuster success of Pearl Harbor, Bruckheimer has signed an exclusive two-year TV production deal with Warner Bros...
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May
31 2001

Lieberman signs book deal

By: Robert Sims
10:58am EDT
Hollywood watchdog Sen. Joseph Lieberman will pen a book about his failed 2000 vice presidential bid for Simon & Schuster, a corporate sibling of the Lieberman-attacked MTV, Variety reports. The Connecticut Democrat continually denounces MTV's...
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May
31 2001

Hill, McGraw expecting

By: Robert Sims
10:58am EDT
Country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are expecting their third child in January. Married for four years, Hill and McGraw have two daughters, Gracie, 4, and Maggie, 2. "Gracie and Maggie can't understand why they have to wait until January to...
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