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That SPIKE LEE--everybody wants a piece of him. First the cable channel TNN tried to change its name to Spike TV. Lee (actual first name: Shelton) saw that as an infringement on his personal Spikeness and slapped TNN with a lawsuit. A judge has agreed to hear the case, but Lee has to post $2.5 million to cover the cable channel's losses if the verdict doesn't go his way. (Spike Jones Jr., son of the famous bandleader, is taking TNN's side in the case.) But the madness did not stop there: there's a canine conspiracy...
Studios are speeding to build more car movies and inject car chases into other action films. It's more than a trend; it seems to be a rule. Says Ron Shelton, director and a co-writer of the new Harrison Ford--Josh Hartnett action comedy, Hollywood Homicide: "Car chases have become an obligatory part of the genre for summer movies or cop movies...
...MOVIES ARE THE NEW WESTERNS. "There were a million westerns with chases on horseback," says Shelton. "In our iconography, cars have replaced horses." There are a few differences: a city street holds more concentrated peril than the open prairie, and drivers can go way faster than cowboys. The horsepower under John Wayne...
Lavietes grew up in New Haven, Conn. His family owned a basket-making company in nearby Shelton...
...memorial service for Lavietes will be scheduled at the Boys and Girls Club in Shelton, and his wife said she plans also to hold a ceremony in his honor in Memorial Church...