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...exploited her troubles by putting her on the cover of its current issue, running old nude photos of her inside. The magazine is also releasing the upcoming video The Complete Anna Nicole Smith: A True Rags to Riches Story, which, to add injury to insult, is hosted by E! channel's A.J. Benza. And we're pleased to report that last week a California judge upheld the $475 million award she received from a lawsuit against her late husband's estate, allowing her to drop her case in Texas. We will, however, run this photo...
...doing something right. It's just this understanding of the connection between people and animals that has made Emergency Vets and the rest of the addictive fare on Animal Planet into a cable success story. In just over four years, the network, a spin-off of the Discovery Channel, has become available in 66 million homes; it's opening a stage show at Universal Studios this spring and sells a line of toys; and, analyst Derek Baine of Paul Kagan Associates estimates, it had revenue of more than $100 million last year...
...DIEHARD CHANNEL SURFERS RENDERED CATATONIC by the pabulum served up by the networks and basic cable channels have always known that the most vibrant, unpredictable entertainment can be found on the foreign-language channels, particularly the three Spanish networks. Those of us who studied the language in school but get lost when people begin to hablar rapidamente (talk quickly) can still follow and become absorbed by Spanish-language telenovelas, variety shows and music programs. Fans of vintage movies and TV shows will find formulas they recognize, but the passion and spontaneity with which they are carried out makes one thing...
Traffic, a $46 million movie based on a British Channel 4 mini-series, bounced between studios after Douglas originally passed as the drug czar and Harrison Ford expressed interest. Although screenwriter Stephen Gaghan rewrote the script to accommodate Ford's concerns (Soderbergh says the character was originally "extremely passive"), the star ultimately opted out. Before Douglas, pleased with the rewrites, came aboard and Traffic landed at USA Films, the project nearly went under. Soderbergh kept it afloat with $100,000 of his own money. "I just felt like this was the time to make this movie," says the director...
...faith with the public. But if there ever really was one, it was shot long ago, as much because of audience sophistication as because of any failings of the media. The new-media-era covenant goes like this: we'll gratify you instantly--would you have kept watching a channel that waited half an hour to report anything?--and if we get it wrong, well, whoops!, stuff happens. In exchange, you get a new transparency: unfiltered access, not just to source material (like the Starr Report, the decision almost immediately went online) but to the journalistic process. Viewers Tuesday...