March
30, 2000 -
TV BASICS
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© 2000, Television
Bureau of
Advertising, Inc.,
Chronicles of the
first fifty years
of the television
experience...
March
16, 2001 -
London
art gallery
cleared
- By JILL
LAWLESS Associated
Press Writer,
LONDON (AP) - It's
Thursday afternoon
at London's
Saatchi Gallery
and curator Jenny
Blyth is serving
tea and cookies to
a group of naked
protesters. Things
have not been
normal at the
gallery since
police last week
pronounced three
photos in the ``I
Am a Camera''
exhibition child
pornography and
gave Blyth until
Thursday to remove
them...
March
16, 2001 -
Hollywood
writers push for
demands -
By LYNN ELBER AP
Television Writer,
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Contract talks
between Hollywood
producers and the
Writers Guild of
America had broken
off, and union
leaders called a
meeting to gauge
their members'
resolve...
March
16, 2001 -
Napster
use down as screening starts - By RON HARRIS
Associated Press Writer, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The
number of songs being traded through Napster Inc. has
dropped sharply since the company began policing its
system for unauthorized songs, a research firm
reported Thursday...
November
03, 2000 - Ring Lardner Jr.,
screenwriter, dies - NEW YORK (AP) - Ring Lardner
Jr., the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten, a
group of screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted
during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, has died at 85.
Lardner, whose father was the humorist and baseball
writer, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in New York
City. Lardner's satirical screenplays earned him two
Academy Awards, but he was best known for his refusal
to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee if
he had ever been a Communist. Lardner was a Communist
but held that his political views were none of the
government's business. "I could answer the
question exactly the way you want," he said under
questioning in 1947 from Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, a
Republican from New Jersey. "But if I did, I
would hate myself in the morning." Lardner, with
Michael Kanin, won an Oscar for best original
screenplay in 1942 for "Woman of the Year,"
starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In 1970,
he won an Oscar for best screenplay based on another
medium for the movie "M A S H," which was
based on a Richard Hooker novel.
November
03, 2000 - Buffett to open
island-themed eatery - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)
- Singer Jimmy Buffett only needed to look to one of
his most famous songs for the name of his new
island-themed eatery - "Cheeseburger in
Paradise." Buffett is working on the project with
Tampa-based Outback Steakhouse Inc. The restaurant is
expected to open next year. The location has not yet
been selected. Buffett already has based one
restaurant chain on a hit song, "Margaritaville."
He also is opening two Krispy Kreme doughnut shops in
Palm Beach County. "A lot of people are going to
roll their eyes on this one. But that doesn't mean I
won't go there, especially if he can make a good
cheeseburger," said Jean Parker, a member of
Buffett's Island Time Parrothead Club.
