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Is 'SmackDown' enough for MyNetworkTV?
Tribune NewspapersHOLLYWOOD—Once upon a time, pro wrestling helped save UPN. And now it's serving largely the same function for its successor network, MyNetworkTV. A couple of years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. launched MyNetwork with a full slate of low-cost...Tags: CBS Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Movies, News Corp., Wrestling
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MyNetworkTV looks beyond 'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'
Once upon a time, pro wrestling helped save UPN. And now it's serving largely the same function for its successor network, MyNetworkTV. There's a larger message here somewhere, and it's not just that a lot of young men like to watch beefy guys in posing...Tags: Television, Satellite and Cable Service, Movies, Wrestling, Television Industry
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When it comes to horsing around, Joe Torre's kid beats pops
I'm sure the kid goes to school, and it was a Saturday, but as good a horse racing handicapper as 12-year-old Andrea Torre proved to be, they might be breaking ground today on a new wing at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA.
Instead, we got her father...Tags: Jonathan Broxton, Pablo Ozuna, Barbaro, Andruw Jones, Frank McCourt
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Hitchhiking on the Straight Talk Express
I got an interesting e-mail Monday afternoon. Sen. John McCain had extra room on the Straight Talk Express bus Wednesday afternoon. ''You want in?'' my editor asked. ''If they'll have you?'' Of course. I called a guy on McCain's advance team, gave him...Tags: John McCain, Government, Davy Crockett, Elections, National Government
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Live: George Michael
Times Pop Music CriticGeorge Michael really knows his crowd. When he gave some grief to talk-show shrink Dr. Phil McGraw midway through Wednesday's show at the Forum, it seemed like simple celebrity-on-celebrity taunting. In fact, Michael was nodding to some of his most...Tags: Popular Music, Television, Kanye West, California, Same-Sex Marriage
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Tiger mauls caretaker at actress' animal sanctuary
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA tiger living at actress Tippi Hedren's wildlife sanctuary mauled a caretaker Monday afternoon, leaving the man in critical condition with multiple bites, a Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman said. The incident occurred about 3 p.m. at Hedren'...Tags: Nature, Tippi Hedren, California, Covina, Fires
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A seaside stronghold
Special to The TimesJACK LaLANNE was already famous by the time he visited Los Angeles in 1939. He'd set records by doing 1,000 push-ups without stopping, and had founded the first modern health club six years earlier in Berkeley. But he almost certainly wouldn't have ended...Tags: Television, Mario Lanza, Wrestling, Physical Fitness, Jane Russell
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Sex! Heavy breathing! Bad dialogue!
Newsday Staff WriterIf it never really was quite clear what the suddenly defunct UPN network was all about, its ostensible replacement wastes not a second tonight making its intentions clear. MyNetworkTV debuts with two hotties in bed, quickly followed by gunfire,...Tags: Ethics, News Corp., Morgan Fairchild, Values
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Fairchild Dresses Up MyNet's 'Fashion House'
Zap2It.comCatfight alert: The scheming fashion mogul played by Bo Derek in one of MyNetwork TV's telenovela-like shows will have an equally devious rival. Morgan Fairchild, the '80s icon and former star of "Falcon Crest" and "Flamingo Road," has joined the cast of...Tags: Matthew Perry, Movies, News Corp., Morgan Fairchild
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My Network TV Takes Telenovela Approach
Zap2It.comIs America at large ready for the telenovela? A new network is staking its fate on it. The decision of The WB Network and UPN to merge into the soon-to-debut CW orphaned many stations that mainly were UPN affiliates. 20th Century Fox then revised its...Tags: Popular Music, Television, Television Industry, Literature, Celebrity
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'The 4400' Counts on Tippi Hedren
Zap2It.comAlthough she's in her 70s and has done dozens of movies and TV projects, actress Tippi Hedren is hardly lounging on the porch, sipping tea, like some would advise a woman her age to do. "I'm not real good at listening to advice," Hedren says. "I think...Tags: Kiefer Sutherland, Tippi Hedren, Animals, Television Industry, Melanie Griffith
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