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Dorothy Brings the Release Form (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Someone knocked on the half-closed door. "Come in," I said, expecting it to be Meg. I was startled to find that it was someone else. "Hi, Aurora," a middle-aged woman said. "I need you to sign this release form," she said, as she handed me a pen and clipboard. |
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Hessinger on the job (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Business News: AFTRA vet gets SAG card -- Screen Actors Guild's last CEO, Bob Pisano, started his new job on Sept. 10, 2001. Today, AFTRA's outgoing topper, Greg Hessinger, officially assumes Pisano's old office. |
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'Galaxy' flies o'seas; 'Interpreter' holds up (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - International News: O'seas auds OK 'Union' -- "XXX: State of the Union" led a still-mild foreign box office with a moderate day-and-date international opening of $15 million at 4,800 playdates in 64 territories. Also during the Friday-Sunday frame, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" showed spark with $8.3 million at about 1,035 engagement in three English-speaking markets. |
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CBS sweeps to early lead (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - TV News: Eye flush, as its pair beats Peacock's -- CBS opened the May sweep with a winning perf on an atypical Thursday that saw the top-rated dramas and reality shows of the Eye and Peacock webs go head-to-head in much of the country. |
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Composes lauded in L.A. (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - VPage: ASCAP honored at BevHills bash -- The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) feted Hollywood's Film and Television composers with a bash April 27 at the Beverly Hilton. |
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All that jazz. . . (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - VPage: Jazz fest gets going in the Big Easy -- The Big Easy's 36th Jazz & Heritage Festival kicked off April 21 with a gala dinner at the Fairmont Hotel where Natalie Cole was both honored and made her only fest performance. |
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Legit's hot credit rating (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - VPage: Amex opens up new doors for Broadway -- Amex ticket deals have stoked a gold rush on the Great White Way. The company's Gold Card Events program has changed the landscape of Broadway ticketbuying with a growing number of exclusive ducat deals. |
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Party mecca Tribeca (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - VPage: The Muppets take Manhattan, again -- "When you start out in a swamp, you don't expect to end up at the Tribeca Film Festival," quipped A-list amphibian Kermit the Frog April 27at a preem of ABC and Touchstone's "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz." |
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Art of the breakup (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Business News: Clear Channel to spin off live-show division -- No divorce papers have been signed yet, but the trend toward voluntary media deconsolidation is no longer just a trend, it's a full-fledged epidemic. Clear Channel announced Friday it would spin off its live entertainment division and sell 10% of its outdoor advertising business in an initial public offering. |
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CBS, WGA to resume talks (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Business News: Both sides agreed to continue negotiating -- Negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and CBS have resumed their rocky course following a month'ssuspension. After meeting Thursday and Friday, both sides agreed to continue negotiating, but had not settled on a date. |
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NBC U lifts Kelly-Brown (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - TV News: Peacock taps PR topper -- NBC Universal has named West Coast entertainment publicity veteran Kathy Kelly-Brown to take over in Gotham for top corporate PR exec Kevin Sullivan, who has been nominated by President Bush to serve as U.S. assistant secretary of education. |
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Soap creator dies (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Obituaries: Sudser scribe Bell dies at 78 -- Emmy-winning TV soap writer and producer William Joseph Bell died Friday in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 78. |
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Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Day 1 (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Music Reviews: The first day of this year's installment of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was blessed from the beginning, with weather a full 20 degrees cooler than the 100-degree-plus oven that made Indio a West Coast Sahara for last year's fest. But that great weather was only the beginning. |
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AFTRA taps Hedgpeth national exec director (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Business News: Exec takes over during transition period -- Leaders of AFTRA have named veteran exec Kim Roberts Hedgpeth national exec director, a post she had held on an interim basis for the past month since the departure of Greg Hessinger to head the Screen Actors Guild. |
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Turner's reloading (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Film News: Cabler buys 'Matrix,' 'Love,' 'Congeniality' -- Turner Broadcasting will shell out around $50 million for the network premiere of "The Matrix Reloaded," the second chapter of the sci-fi trilogy, and windows to three other theatricals from Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution. |
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Studios on Plus side (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Film News: Brit agencies team up for southeast center -- Film London has teamed with bordering regional screen agencies Screen South and Screen East to launch London Plus. The aim is to provide incoming filmmakers with an accessible production center for southeast England. |
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Tyc talks out at fest (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - Film News: Jury chairman unhappy with state of filmmaking -- Czech film is at a crossroads, according to Zdenek Tyc, one of the nation's first post-Velvet Revolution rebel helmers. Before awarding the grand prize at the Pilsen Finale Czech feature film fest to "The City of the Sun" on Sunday, jury chairman Tyc bemoaned too many films "going the way of Hollywood." The winning film at the 18th Finale, Martin Sulik's timely tale of laid-off workers who decide to go into business, personifies the second approach, which Tyc called "the Czech way." "Czech Dream," a comic lampooning of runaway consumerism that scored a special prize, is another original vision: |
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Azteca's Salinas draws new charges (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - TV News: TV topper faces new charges -- In the latest in an increasingly ugly sequence of events, Mexico's Finance Ministry has filed criminal charges against the chairman of TV Azteca, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, for "unlawful use of privileged information." |
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Altre emozioni di Spagna (May 01 2005 23:37 GMT) - 3 Maggio 2005 - ore 19,00 Slow Food Roma, presso la sua sede in Via Ostiense, 109 bis (ex Mercati generali), presenta: Tesori d'Andalusia: lo Sherry Prodotto nelle vicinanze della pittoresca Jerez de la Frontera, è uno dei vini più antichi e ricchi di fascino al mondo e, ancor oggi, dimostra per intero il suo esuberante vigore e [... |
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