Longtime MTV newsman Kurt Loder's Manhattan crib is located three blocks from where the World Trade Center's Twin Towers once stood, and he admits his neighborhood has been transformed into a "horrific, terrible" mess. What's more, as a result of his pad's proximity to the crime scene, he's only been allowed to return once since last Tuesday.
"I can't get home. I'm sort of locked out and I just don't know what's going on," he sighs to TV Guide Online. "I was back once Friday night for 15 minutes and gathered up some clothes and then I had to leave again." Miraculously, Loder adds, his apartment escaped with little damage. "But there's like a half inch of dust over everything because we left the windows open," he explains, adding that the inconvenience is but a small price to pay. "I feel very, very fortunate."
As it is, Loder probably wouldn't have been spending much time at home this past week anyway. The author and former Rolling Stone editor is b
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As the nation struggles to come to grips with last week's devastating terrorist attacks — the worst in U.S. history — artists such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Britney Spears are stepping forward to lend some much-needed support.
Jackson currently is writing and producing an all-star "We Are The World"-type ballad and will donate all proceeds generated by its worldwide distribution to the relief effort. "I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of innocent victims," said Jackson, who hopes to raise $50 million. "There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now, and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping to comfort so many people."
Spears, Destiny's Child, Mýa, 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake and Backstreet Boy
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In any other week, Yasmine Bleeth's recent arrest on alleged drug charges would command big headlines on the syndicated entertainment shows Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and Extra. But in the wake of last Tuesday's horrific terrorist attacks, such celebrity scandals are being tossed aside like yesterday's news.
"We're not touching Yasmine Bleeth," Access Hollywood executive producer Rob Silverstein insists to TV Guide Online. "It's not something we're interested in. If none of this ever happened, of course, that's something we would cover. But we don't think stories like that are appropriate at this time."
While Access, ET and Extra have been pre-empted by news coverage in much of the country since Tuesday, most affiliates were expected to return to normal programming this week. And in addition to the Bleeth blackout, Silverstein says viewers tuning in can expect a kinder, gentler Access
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As the daylong TV preemptions for news coverage subside, talk shows are back on the air and responding to last week's terrorist attacks. From Oprah Winfrey to Regis Philbin to Danny Bonaduce (heaven help us!), the daytimers are eschewing the usual makeovers and sparring siblings to comfort their confused and aggrieved audiences.
Talk-show queen Winfrey has made use of her considerable clout this week, inviting on First Lady Laura Bush and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to talk terrorism. Mrs. Bush encouraged parents to "put their arms around their children and reassure them," while Biden sought to quell America's fears about air travel. He told Winfrey: "I want people in your audience to understand they're more likely to be struck by lightning than to be taken down in an aircraft or by an aircraft."
Winfrey also had
New York Times writer
Judith Miller — co-author of
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret W
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In anticipation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's highly anticipated November sweeps musical episode, Michelle Trachtenberg — who plays the eponymous supergirl's kid sister Dawn — isn't taking voice lessons, but rather, practicing her pleading.
"I begged [series creator] Joss Whedon not to have me sing as much [as everybody else]," she tells TV Guide Online. "I'll dance, though. I love dancing, so he was checking to make sure of my ballerina skills. I'm like, 'Why, exactly?'"
Perhaps, besides tailoring Trachtenberg's rockin' role to her aptitudes, Whedon is gauging her surefootedness in case Sarah Michelle Gellar ever gives up kicking butt. "I've been asked if a spinoff or a continuation [of
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The decision to delay the 53rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards for three
weeks — from Sept. 16 to Oct. 7 — marks a first in Emmy history:
Never before has a news event delayed TV's biggest night. But clearly,
never before has there been a news event quite like last Tuesday's deadly
terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C.
"In the past, TV academy leaders always decided, in the great Hollywood
tradition, to go on with the show no matter what happened — even in
1980 when no stars showed up because of an actors' strike," notes award
show expert Tom O'Neil, author of The Emmys and host of
showbiz-awards website GoldDerby.com. "But this year Emmy leaders were
afraid that it might look heartless of Hollywood to carry on with a posh
party for itself and bestow gold trophies for best comedy actor and
actress at a time of national mourning."
There was n
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As television networks scramble to remove any inappropriate programming content related to Tuesday's deadly terrorist attacks, HBO is admitting that it dropped the ball when it came to Sunday night's broadcast of the 1994 action flick Drop Zone. The film stars Wesley Snipes as a U.S. Marshall thwarting a international drug plot. One scene features a brutal hijacking of a commercial airliner.
"This one obviously was missed," an HBO rep sighs to TV Guide Online. "We have pulled 11 movies so far from HBO and Cinemax channels. We apologize that we overlooked this one. The people in scheduling are in the process of still pulling other programs from the schedule for the upcoming weeks. I guess there are so many to go through and screen."
Last week, HBO made the decision to yank print and on-air promotions for its World War II epic Band of Brothers. However, the 10-part Sunday series h
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Question: Please help me. Did I miss something or did they not resolve what happened to the new girl that was shot in the first episode of CSI? I thought maybe here in Australia they mucked up and missed an episode. Please help me, as there is no one as brilliant as you to ask here at home (we have a crap TV mag). Thank you in advance! — Michelle T, Hastings, Victoria
Televisionary: Ah, Michelle. You pushed all the right buttons — buttering me up on both the personal and professional fronts and, as a bonus, writing from the other side of the planet when you know I take childish glee in reaching readers in faraway lands. Nevertheless, I shall tell you only that the shooting of Holly Gribbs (Chandra West) is dealt with and given closure in a future episode of the hit drama.
I mean, for crying out loud, it's the least they could do for a woman they treated the worst of any main character in any pilot I've ever seen
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Question: Can you tell me who played Hunter in the old TV series by that name? Thank you. — AJ
Televisionary: That was ex-All-Pro defensive end Fred Dryer, who spent three years with the New York Giants and 10 with the L.A. Rams before grabbing a very big gun and hitting the streets as tough-guy detective Rick Hunter on the NBC series. From the TV house of Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street, Wiseguy), the show ran from September 1984 to August 1991 and initially focused on Hunter, a tough, take-no-prisoners, obey-no-superiors kind o
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In any other week, Yasmine Bleeth's recent arrest on alleged drug charges would command big headlines on the syndicated entertainment shows Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and Extra. But in the wake of last Tuesday's horrific terrorist attacks, such celebrity scandals are being tossed aside like yesterday's news.
"We're not touching Yasmine Bleeth," Access Hollywood executive producer Rob Silverstein insists to TV Guide Online. "It's not something we're interested in. If none of this ever happened, of course, that's something we would cover. But we don't think stories like that are appropriate at this time."
While Access, ET and Extra have been pre-empted by news coverage in much of the country since Tuesday, most affiliates were expected to return to normal programming this week. And in addition to the Bleeth blackout, Silverstein says viewers tuning in can expect a kinder, gentler Access
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