FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, August 14, 2001
GIVE IT AWAY: Red Hot Chili Peppers canceling a concert in Tel Aviv set for later this month because of security fears in the wake of several Palestinian suicide bombings. Some 20,000 ticket holders are expected to get their money back.
MAKING HIS MARK: Nicolas Cage dipping his parts in cement for posterity in a ceremony today at the Chinese Theater. Cage joins a long list of celebs who have impressions of their hands and feet immortalized at the Hollywood landmark.
REMEMBERED: Kevin Spacey and Hank Azaria among those eulogizing the late Jack Lemmon at a memorial service at Paramount Studios in Hollywood Monday. Lemmon died June 27 of cancer at the age of 76.
RIGHT TURN: Trying to compete with Rupert Murdoch's right-leaning Fox News, CNN's negotiating with conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh about launching his own show for the news network.
EUTHANIZED? The New York Post reporting Johnny Knoxville has quit Jackass to make the jump to movies. MTV will reportedly continue to air repeats of the 24 episodes in the can, but will edit out any questionable content.
TAKE THE GOOD: ABC bringing original Facts of Life cast members Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett), Mindy Cohn (Natalie), Kim Fields (Tootie), and Lisa Whelchel (Blair) back for a reunion movie next season. It's still not known whether Nancy McKeon (Jo) will appear.
EXTENSION: Ming-Na, who plays Dr. Deb Chen on ER, signing a new deal to remain on NBC's top-rated medical drama through spring 2003, the show's ninth season.
A VERY BRADY RATING: Helped by a boffo showing by the new Wayne Brady Show, ABC won the weekly Nielsen race. Brady's brand-new variety show drew 11 million viewers in its debut to finish 13th for the week.
PRESIDENT BRADY: The Fox network will premiere The Brady Bunch in Washington, a two-hour TV movie poking fun at the White House and all things presidential when TV's favorite family moves in. Brady creator Sherwood Schwartz tells Variety the family might even be mixed-raced, dad and the boys would be white and mom and the girls, black.
DUH: Despite the possibility of a mixed-race Brady family and large increases in minority roles, the Screen Actors Guild reports Hollywood remains an overwhelmingly white town, with more than three-quarters of all roles going to white performers, according to the guild's annual diversity report.
DOTCONOMY: According to published reports, AOL Time Warner could be laying off as many as 1,000 jobs at the company's Internet unit on Friday as the media giant works to meet its 2001 financial targets.






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