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FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, May 6, 1997

TOP OF THE NEWS: Police in Santa Monica, California, detained and questions two people suspected of ambushing and videotaping Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver this weekend. The two suspects have been released pending further investigation, police said Tuesday.

NETWORK NEWS: ABC won the ratings race last week, thanks to Ellen and Forrest Gump...Only in full control of ABC's schedule since February, entertainment division president Jamie Tarses is already widely rumored to be a lame duck, the victim of ABC's dismal showing over the past TV season. Yesterday, the network took the unusual step of expressing its "confidence in Jamie's leadership" via a statement from ABC president Robert Iger

TOP GUN: The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston first vice president, defeating hardliner Neal Knox. Heston won a seat on the board of the organization over the weekend in a campaign to limit the influence of right-wingers like Knox on the gun lobby.

LADY LAW: O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark's book Without a Doubt comes out on Friday. She writes that Simpson was "an unregenerate low-life scum" who was acquitted "because American justice is distorted by race (and) corrupted by celebrity."

FALLING FAST: Universal Studios Florida announced plans for a $2.6 billion expansion today, to be finished in 1999. Steven Spielberg is a creative consultant in the project. Roller coasters will be a central feature of the expansion, a first for a Universal park.

STAYIN' ALIVE: The Bee Gee's Still Waters album hits the stores today. Tonight, they'll be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with the Jackson 5, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell and Parliament-Funkadelic.

NO CREDIT: Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' new project is called An Alan Smithee Film after the fake name traditionally put on the credits when a director decides he doesn't want to be associated with the final product. Now, says Daily Variety, director Arthur Hiller has taken his name off the film--leading to the possiblity that An Alan Smithee Film will be yet another film by Alan Smithee.

BIG COMEBACK: Robert Downey Jr. is in final negotiations for a starring role in U.S. Marshals, the spinoff of The Fugitive, joining Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes. The job would be a big step for Downey in putting his conviction on drug charges behind him. For all the casting news, see The Dotted Line.

SHARING MIKE: Afternoon talk rivals Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O'Donnell will both be presenters for the 24th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on May 21... Comic Howie Mandel is close to signing a $5 million pact with Paramount TV to host a daytime syndicated television talk show in 1998.

TROUBLED: Eric Douglas, 38, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, pleaded guilty to accepting a package containing 1,000 antidepressant pills last year and was sentenced to 10 days of community service, placed on probation and ordered to complete drug rehabilitation.

BOOKED: Queen Latifah is writing a book on self-esteem and self-respect titled From the Heart of a Queen and due out next year, publisher William Morrow said Tuesday.

HOMELESS: Former rich rapper M.C. Hammer--in the midst of a bankruptcy filing--has put his $12 million San Francisco Bay Area mansion up for sale. Hammer's digs has $2 million worth of Italian marble, indoor and outdoor pools, three waterfalls and full climate control.

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