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Wednesday, August 12, 1998 5:57:20 PM
Today's buzz stories:
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Jane Seymour and co-star Joe Lando
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- CBS has taken its lumps for canceling "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," but the network is going to court to claim that the emerging network PAX-TV, which bought the rights to air reruns of the series, is going too far -- and too long.
PAX-TV is producing a tribute to "Medicine Woman" and its star, Jane Seymour, saying it's a good way to promote the show. CBS says their contract forbids the use of more than two minutes of clips for promotional purposes.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Craig Kilborn may be leaving Comedy Central, but some of the comic's best-known material may be staying behind. Executives of "The Daily Show," which Kilborn is leaving at the end of the year to move to CBS's "Late, Late Show," say some of the bits that Kilborn used regularly "are the intellectual property of Comedy Central."
"Five Questions," in which Kilborn quizzed celebrity guests on arcane and useless information, was one specific feature that Comedy Central claimed. With Jon Stewart signed on as host of "The Daily Show," Comedy Central finally agreed to let Kilborn out of his contract several months early. Despite the tensions between them, the cable comedy channel and CBS currently have their spokespersons saying things like, "Reasonable people will reach reasonable solutions."
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Bryant Gumbel
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Bryant Gumbel still gets his estimated $5 million a year from CBS, but about 40 staffers of his newsmagazine, 'Public Eye,' are out of work. CBS News president Andrew Heyward gave them the official word Tuesday: The newsmagazine is going out of production, and the staff will be gone before the last scheduled broadcast on September 16. Gumbel, the long-time host of NBC's "Today" show before signing a five-year contract with CBS, said he doesn't yet know what his next project will be. "I won't be focusing much attention on it until mid-September," he said Thursday. "After that, it will consume me."
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Frank Sinatra Jr. objected to three men who kidnapped him in 1963 making money from a movie about it, and a court has agreed to stop Columbia Pictures from paying the kidnappers for the story, at least temporarily. Sinatra, 54, sued Barry Keenan, Joseph Amsler and John Irwin - who were convicted of the kidnapping -- and writer Peter Gilstrap, Columbia Pictures and New Times Inc.
Sinatra wants the money that would go to the kidnappers put in a beneficiary trust. The California legislature passed a law in 1986 to prevent felons from profiting from their criminal activity, but Columbia Pictures contends the law is unconstitutional, Sinatra's lawyer said. Sinatra was released unharmed in 1963 after a ransom was paid.
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A pair of Baldwins putting for charity
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The dashing Baldwin brothers -- Daniel, Alec, Billy and Stephen -- played golf with their fellow actors recently to raise money for a cancer research fund named for their mother.
Carol Baldwin, an eight-year survivor of breast cancer, played a round with the wild boys. "You drive for show and you putt for dough, Carol," said Stephen. The boys' friend and fellow actor, Edward Burns, said his participation in the charity golf event was a "no-brainer" since "you get to play golf with your friends, hang out in the sun, and at the same time you're raising money for a good cause."
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