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When singer-actress Aaliyah died in a plane accident in August of 2001, fans and entertainment insiders wondered what would become of "The Queen of the Damned," a Warner Bros. movie in which she was cast in the title role. "The Queen of the Damned," it turns out, will make it to the big screen after all, and it is currently set for a release in February of 2002 - with a little help from her family. TIME has learned that Aaliyah's brother, Rashad, recorded some of Aaliyah's dialogue in order to see the film to completion...
...trailer for "The Queen of the Damned" is already showing in theaters and is also available to watch online at queenofthedamned.warnerbros.com. (Warner Brothers is owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME). Aaliyah, at the time of her death, also had a role in the sequel to the hit sci-fi movie "The Matrix," but hadn't done much filming for the project yet, so it seems unlikely that her work can be salvaged. However, a spokesperson for Warner Bros., which is also behind "The Matrix," says there's no official word yet on whether Aaliyah will appear...
...kids' channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have given their animators the freedom of auteurs. Smarter and more idiosyncratic, these animators have created shows like Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls that have become not just hits but cultural icons. "It harkens back to the old days at Warner Bros., when guys were creating Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, and they had free rein," says Powerpuff creator Craig McCracken. There's still plenty of toy-driven junk, particularly in the anime-action category, but cartoons have also become more diverse (with new entries like Disney Channel's African-American...
...post at a $2.5 billion company that beams its signal in eight languages to 53 countries ("I don't think TV gets harder than STAR," says chief programmer Steve Askew). Yet Rupert Murdoch chose his youngest son as his lieutenant in Asia, just as giants such as AOL Time Warner, Sony and Disney came rushing in. This office?sensible, austere, pragmatic?speaks not of transformation, but of evolution: from Harvard dropout to committed corporate man, from (sort of) outsider...
...after his failed U.S. presidential campaign, to devote time to ministry; in Virginia. Recently Robertson fueled controversy following the Sept. 11 attack when he espoused televangelist Jerry Falwell's accusations that liberal groups were partly to blame for the tragedy. RETIRING. GERALD LEVIN, 62, the ceo of AOL Time Warner (Time's parent company), after 30 years as a top corporate executive and a mastermind behind Time Inc.'s transformation into the world's No. 1 media company; in New York. Richard Parsons, the co-coo, will succeed Levin as the head of the company in May 2002. ARRESTED. CLAYTON...