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JAMES GANDOLFINI has made HBO an offer it apparently can refuse. Gandolfini wants his Sopranos salary bumped up from its current rate--a Dickensian $400,000 an episode--to more than $1 million, and to tighten the screws, he sued HBO over an alleged contract violation. Not only would HBO's brass not budge, but they countersued Gandolfini for $100 million and delayed the March 24 start of production of the show's fifth season. HBO lawyer Bert Fields dismissed the actor's attempt to hold a gun to the network's head: "It's really a water pistol...
Selection of the finalists will be made by members of the Department of Afro-American Studies and the ultimate grant recipients will be chosen by a panel of both CNN and HBO executives, as well as such notable film experts as Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, and Shelby Stone...
Richard D. Parsons, CEO of AOL Time Warner, approved the idea after Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. first proposed it to HBO...
Gates, cofounder of Africana.com, a website which focuses on African American culture and is now part of AOL Time Warner’s media network, has worked in conjunction with HBO on programming projects in the past...
...similar competition sponsored by HBO and the American Black Film Festival, the HBO Short Film Award, seeks to recognize talented young black filmmakers, but focuses on short fictional pieces, rather than documentary works...