Word: cbs
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...Cuba. It's a terrific story... Imagine 70 soldiers attacking a home to capture a little boy." Thus ran the probable Hollywood pitch by legendary schlock producer Menahem Golan for his Elian Gonzalez biopic, currently in production in Cuba and the odds-on favorite to beat rival projects from CBS and the Fox Family Channel onto screens...
...CBS had been first out of the gate in April, initiating a two-part movie to air sometime in November, and Fox moved to scoop them by planning a project to air by September. But Golan, better known for such cinematic gems as "Death Wish" and "Raid on Entebbe," is notoriously quick at rushing stories to screen - his most recent effort was a low-budget screamer about the Miami shooting of Gianni Versace. So although Golan promises to be first and claims to have presold "Elian: The Gonzalez-Boy Story" (yes, that's the title) in five countries, including Germany...
...House, a fascinating British show that made its debut last week on PBS. "[Celebrity] does become quite addictive," she says. "But you have to realize it's not your whole life. We don't do this for a profession." In VTV-crazed Europe, where Survivor and CBS's forthcoming voyeur game show Big Brother originated, ex-contestants have become pinups and pop stars...
Thus far, though, TV's voyeurism has not met the organized moral outcry that European groups--religious, political, psychological--have directed toward the Continent's reality freak shows. (Although People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has protested against CBS because the Survivor contestants monstrously killed animals in order to eat them.) But Americans have not yet met Big Brother...
...MOONVES Soul Survivor: CBS big finally gets a hit for viewers younger than Angela Lansbury...