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Networks and cable channels are moving cautiously ahead. CBS, the HD leader, records almost all its prime-time shows in high def, and ABC about half. NBC lags far behind. Entrepreneur Paul Allen has his own high-def channel, ASCN, based in Portland, Ore. HBO (owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner) and Showtime provide high-def programming to satellite-TV subscribers...
...Dunne for his St. Martin's Press imprint. It's the work of photographer Stephen Mosher, who spent six years collecting the hundreds of celebrity pictures from which those in the book will be chosen, including Alec Baldwin, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Dominick Dunne, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Harris, Kathleen Turner, Angela Bassett, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and many others. A substantial portion of Mosher's royalties will go to AIDS charities. Dunne aims to publish for Christmas next year...
...WOODY ALLEN finally become a party guy? The reclusive director, who has always kept away from award shows, made his first appearance at the Oscars last month when he introduced a montage of films shot in New York City. Now he has announced that he will attend the Cannes Film Festival in May to premiere his new movie, Hollywood Ending. His films have been at Cannes before, but Allen has not. "The French people have been so supportive and so nice to me over the years, and I've been invited so many times that I wanted to give something...
There are still some old-school holdouts--Woody Allen, for one--but much of the rest of digital-age hollywood is eagerly embracing alternate endings in feature films released on DVD. Basically, it's a way to get you to rewatch a film you've already seen. But which new climaxes are worth your while? We rate the new endings of five DVDs...
...business; how's the food? For the most part, it is both ambitious and good. But restaurant critics have pretty much ignored this in-store phenomenon - Le Chênevert, which has been awarded high marks by reviewers, and Harvey Nichols' Fifth Floor being the exceptions. Harrods chef Chris Allen, who learned his trade in some of London's most prestigious eateries, can't get anyone to review his Georgian Restaurant. "We are doing an incredibly high level of food," he says, as he gently stirs a lobster sauce for a salmon en croute dish. "I think critics just...