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Fall TV Season
TV's New Season - The New Shows
SUNDAY
ABC
'Alias'
(secret agency spies)
CBS
'The Education of Max Bickford'
(Richard Dreyfuss as a college professor)
NBC
'Criminal Intent'
(The 3rd layer of 'Law & Order')
'UC: Undercover'
(More crime-fighters)
WB
'Lost in the USA'
(Reality show)
'Men, Women & Dogs'
(Stars Bill Bellamy)
'Off Centre'
(A buddy comedy)
MONDAY
NBC
'Crossing Jordan'
(Jill Hennessy as a medical examiner)
UPN
'One on One'
(Flex Alexander as a sportscaster)
TUESDAY
ABC
'Bob Patterson'
('Bob Patterson' is Jason Alexander)
'Philly'
(By Steven Bochco)
CBS
'The Guardian'
(Corporate lawyer busted, must serve children in trouble)
NBC
'Emeril'
('Emeril' is Emeril)
'Scrubs'
(Hospital humor)
Fox
'Undeclared'
(College comedy)
'Love Cruise'/'24'
('Love Cruise', reality, runs for 6 weeks, then will be replaced by '24', Kiefer Sutherland heading a CIA team)
WB
'Smallville'
(Clark Kent at 17)
WEDNESDAY
ABC
'According to Jim'
(Jim Belushi as a 'dad')
CBS
'The Amazing Race'
(Reality show)
'Wolf Lake'
('Wolf Lake', where many citizens can become wolves, stars Lou Diamond Phillips)
Fox
'Bernie Mac Show'
(Bernie Mac as a single dad)
UPN
'Enterprise'
('Star Trek' prequel with Scott Bakula)
THURSDAY
CBS
'Survivor 3'
(Reality, self-explanatory)
'The Agency'
(More CIA intrigue)
NBC
'Inside Schwartz'
(Another sportscaster comedy)
Fox
'The Tick'
(Patrick Warburton [Puddy from Seinfeld] is the 'Tick')
'Temptation Island 2'
('Temptation Island 2' reality, pretty self-explanatory)
WB
'Popstars 2'
(Fairly self-explanatory)
'Elimidate Deluxe'
(a reality 'dating' show that seems to be 'screw 'em, then skew 'em')
FRIDAY
ABC
The Mole 2'
(Why?)
'Thieves'
(John Stamos as a secret agent)
CBS
'The Ellen Show'
(Ellen is 'Ellen', again)
'Danny'
(Another single dad dramedy)
Fox
'Pasadena'
(Prime time soap opera)
WB
'Maybe It's Me'
(15 year old girl with a 'wacky' family)
'Reba'
(Reba McEntire as a soccer mom)
'Raising Dad'
(Bob Saget, again as a single dad)
SATURDAY
CBS
'Citizen Baines'
(James Cromwell is a defeated senator who returns home)
OK, there's the line-up
Do we have any volunteer viewers?
(Hint, Hint)
Technical Emmy Awards #1
'The West Wing' Wins 4
``The West Wing'' got another head start in the annual race for television's top
awards Saturday, winning four prizes at the technical portion of the Emmy Awards.
In doing so, NBC's acclaimed White House soap vanquished Mafia drama ``The
Sopranos ,'' which picked up just one prize (for makeup). ``The Sopranos,''
which airs on HBO, leads the overall Emmy field with 22 nominations, while
``West Wing'' has 18.
Emmys in 58 craft and technical categories were handed out at the Pasadena
Civic Auditorium. The main Primetime Emmys ceremony, honoring the top shows
and actors, will take place at the Shrine Auditorium Sept. 16.
Saturday's results could pave the way for a rerun of the 2000 Emmys, when
``West Wing'' and ``Sopranos'' led the overall field with 18 nominations each.
``Wing'' also went into last year's main ceremony with four technical awards
and added five, including top drama. ``The Sopranos'' scored just one prize
last year, for lead actor James Gandolfini.
While most of the categories announced Saturday covered such fields as costumes,
casting, makeup, cinematography and lighting, actors nominated for guest roles
got a chance to shine.
NBC hospital drama ``ER'' landed only its second acting Emmy win in seven
seasons. Sally Field won the dramatic actress race for her turn as a bipolar
sufferer, the second Emmy win of her career after 1977's ``Sybil.''
``Oh my God! I love being an actor,'' an overwhelmed Field, 54, told the
black-tie crowd. ``I'm so goddamn grateful I still get to work.''
Stage actor Michael Emerson won the male dramatic category for his guest role
in the ABC legal drama ``The Practice,'' playing a psycho killer he described
backstage as ``calm and craftsman-like.''
In the comedy race, veteran comedy ``Frasier'' landed both awards. Jean Smart
picked up her second consecutive Emmy for playing a paramour of Kelsey Grammer's
title character, while British actor Sir Derek Jacobi was honored for his
depiction of a bad actor.
``Frasier'' picked up three Emmys in all, taking the NBC show's lifetime haul to
27, just two short of the record held by ``The Mary Tyler Moore Show.'' It could
surpass that benchmark next Sunday when it competes in three categories,
including top comedy.
The ``West Wing'' victories were for editing, casting, cinematography and sound
mixing.
The veteran Fox cartoon ``The Simpsons'' was one of 10 shows to win two
awards: animated program (less than one hour) for the second year in a row, and
voice-over performance.
Actor Hank Azaria, who voices many of the characters, won the latter award for
an episode in which he played the unnamed ''comic-book guy.'' He said backstage
that one of the episodes in the show's upcoming 13th season would depict Homer
Simpson getting stoned on medicinal marijuana.
NBC and Fox shared network honors with 11 wins each, followed by HBO with eight
and ABC with seven. Including the main ceremony, HBO received 94 nominations, a
record for any cable channel, followed by NBC with 76.
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Technical Emmy Awards #2
'The Tribe Has Spoken'
CBS' back-stabbing, pig-skinning reality smash may now be referred to as
CBS' Emmy-winning, back-stabbing, pig-skinning reality smash.
Mark Burnett's hit series Survivor picked up its first Emmy award Saturday, one
of two new trophies capitalizing on TV's reality-show craze.
Survivor won for Outstanding Non-Fiction Program (Special Class), a category
honoring "reality" shows with a game-show element. The hit series was nominated
alongside VH1's Bands on the Run, USA's Eco-Challenge: Borneo, TLC's Junkyard
Wars and MTV's Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour. The show also picked up a
second trophy for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Non-Fiction Program.
American High, R.J. Cutler's critically hailed cinema verité series about an
Illinois high school, took home the night's other new reality-show trophy, for
Outstanding Non-Fiction Program (Reality). The series, which was canceled by
Fox and later picked up by PBS, was nominated alongside E!'s True Hollywood
Story, Bravo's The Awful Truth With Michael Moore, HBO's Taxicab Confessions
and TLC's Trauma: Life in the ER.
For a bit more, Tech Emmy's #2
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In The News
Bob Dylan Hates Modern Music
Bob Dylan hates most modern music and fights with his teen-age daughter about
her musical tastes.
``The radio makes hideous sounds,'' the 1960s pop culture icon tells Time
magazine in its Sept. 17 issue out on newsstands Monday.
In an interview to promote his 43rd album ``Love and Theft,'' Dylan comments
on some modern musicians and their work.
He says he hasn't really listened to controversial rapper Eminem, but adds,
``I almost feel like if anything is controversial, the guy's gotta be doing
something right.''
He says he can't discuss music with his daughter. ``I get in fights with her
if I talk about music.''
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Film News
Ben Stiller Prevails
Ben Stiller has emerged victorious in a ratings-board battle over a wacky orgy
scene in his upcoming film, ``Zoolander.''
The scene includes Stiller, a Maori tribesman, a midget, Owen Wilson and
Stiller's wife, Christine Taylor.
The Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board insisted on an
R rating even after Stiller - the film's star, director and co-writer - sent
the board recut versions five times.
In the end Stiller convinced the board the scene was more silly than sexy, and
the film received a PG-13 rating.
For a bit more, Ben Stiller
Music News
Buddy Holly Symposium
A four-day Buddy Holly symposium concluded with a record-breaking sing-along to
the 1950s rock legend's hit ``Peggy Sue.''
Nearly 49,000 people attending the Texas Tech-New Mexico football game sang the
song at halftime Saturday night, setting a world record for the largest
sing-along, school officials said.
If accepted by Guinness officials, the halftime sing-along will beat the record
set in Scotland in 1999 when 15,352 people sang in unison.
For more details, Buddy Holly
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In The News
Anthony Hopkins
Had he not asked actor Richard Burton for an autograph many years ago, Sir
Anthony Hopkins is convinced he would be living a limited life in South Wales
where he grew up.
``I look at my life with a sense of great wonder because where I came from and
my internal landscape when I was a child was just so bad. I had no future at
all,'' Hopkins said at a news conference promoting his film ``Hearts in Atlantis.''
``I remember meeting Richard Burton, who is from my hometown, and I remember
asking him to sign an autograph for me. I remember thinking on that day, when I
went back to my father's house, I wanted to be just like that. I wanted to get
away from my own limitations,'' he added.
But, he says acting is ``just a job.''
``I learn my lines, show up ... it's nothing to be taken seriously, or have any
significance. I'm just a stupid actor,'' he said.
For more, Tony Hopkins
Film News
Steve Martin
Actor Steve Martin turned a press conference into a 40-minute comedy show on
Sunday at the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival.
Martin, who was promoting the world premiere of ''Novocaine'', had reporters in
stitches with a steady stream of one-liners.
``I don't like to work with unpleasant people,'' he said. ''That's why I never
want to work with myself.''
Sitting next to him, director David Atkins and co-star Helena Bonham Carter
were unable to control their laughter.
As the press conference began, Martin posed for photographers, calling out
instructions to Atkins and Bonham Carter to pose with him.
Martin also fielded questions about rumors on his personal life.
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In Memory
Daniel Carlin
Daniel Adrian Carlin, an Emmy-winning music editor who worked with soundtrack
composers Lalo Schifrin and Ennio Morricone, died Aug. 14 of complications from
lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. He was 73.
Carlin edited the music for "Scorpio," "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "Ghost,"
"Gorillas in the Mist," "Dead Poets Society" and "Cliffhanger." He won a
music-editing Emmy in 1987 for his work on the miniseries "Unnatural Causes."
He was founder in 1972 of La Da Music. Now known as Segue Music, it is
considered the leading film and television editing company.
Daniel Carlin
In Memory
Julie Bishop
Julie Bishop, an actress whose career stretched from silent films to the early
days of television, has died. She was 87.
Bishop, who also acted under the name of Diane Duval and her birth name of
Jacqueline Wells, appeared in 84 movies, beginning with the silent film
"Children of Jazz" in 1923 and ending with "The Big Land" starring Alan Ladd
in 1957.
Bishop appeared with Humphrey Bogart in the early World War II film "Action in
the North Atlantic," with John Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima," and with Bob
Cummings in the television series "My Hero" in the early 1950s. She also acted
in films starring Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
Bishop was a licensed private pilot, an accomplished painter and was active in
charitable work, beginning with entertaining soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen
during World War II.
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