`TIGER' HAS TORONTO FEST AUDIENCE BY THE TAIL.

Byline: - Compiled by Rodney Richey from Staff and Wire Reports

Director Ang Lee's Chinese-language feature film ``Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' grabbed the People's Choice Award on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, which ended Saturday night. The adventure/martial arts thriller starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh received a gala screening in Toronto after bowing in Cannes and became an early front-runner for the prize voted on by festival audiences. Sony Pictures Classics will release the picture Dec. 8 in the United States.

AND THE TOPIC IS ... The West Coast production of Eve Ensler's ``The Vagina Monologues'' will be presented beginning Oct. 13 at the Canon Theatre, 205 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills.

The play, which has been a popular attraction for the ofroadway crowd for several years, will change its three central players every three weeks. The first trio to be featured will be Julie Kavner, Swoosie Kurtz and Rosie Perez.

A portion of every full-price ticket will be donated to the V-Day Fund, which supports work toward ending violence against women.

Tickets are $25-$49.50 and are available by calling [phone], or on the Web (www.vmlosangeles.com) or through Ticketmaster. The show will be performed at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, at 5 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and at 3 and 7 p.m. Sundays.

LOVE IS AN INTERNET SITE: Internet Business International is launching LA Internetworks, a service that provides customers with entertainment and local and national programming over the Web. It is available through subsidiary companies LA Internet (www.lainternet.com) and 2Xtreme.net (www.2Xtreme.net).

For its gala premiere, the company will feature a recently recorded concert by Pat Benatar, who will perform a new single, ``Please Don't Leave Me.'' In the song, Benatar addresses her fans.

MORE 'BULL': TNT has ponied up for nine more episodes of its Wall Street drama ``Bull,'' totaling a full order of 22. It is TNT's first original hourlong drama. The new episodes of the show, which premiered Aug. 15, will air in January.

``Bull'' concerns young investment bankers who leave an old-boy financial institution to assemble their own upstart business.

BOY, ARE THEY SURVIVING: Jenna Lewis, Joel Klug, Sean Kenniff and Gervase Peterson, four of the original 16 contestants on CBS' ``Survivor,'' will appear in an episode of that network's ``Nash Bridges'' series. The episode will be filmed the week of Sept. 22 and air during the November sweeps.

According to executive producer Carlton Cuse, one of the four will get shot, although he wouldn't say which. Darn.

THANK YOUR MONEYMAKER: Big-time TV syndication hero Jerry Seinfeld will receive the Chairman's Award from the organization NATPE in January during its 38th annual Conference & Exhibition at the Las Vegas Hilton.

NATPE, of course, stands for ``National Association of Television Production Executives.''

According to the release, the award is given ``to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the television industry, whether as on-screen talent or through behind the scenes contributions.''

``Each year we choose a Chairman's Award recipient who has added groundbreaking chapters to the history of television,'' said NATPE chairman Steve Mosko, president of Columbia TriStar Television Distribution.

``Under this criteria, Jerry Seinfeld is a perfect candidate for the award, as the classic series 'Seinfeld' continues to achieve landmark success and acclaim, not just in the U.S., but around the world, as well.''

Basically, that means that Seinfeld has made local TV stations huge amounts of money.

Past winners include Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Carl Reiner, Carol Burnett, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Rupert Murdoch, Norman Lear, Ron Howard, Aaron Spelling and Sid Caesar.

THEY SHOULD KNOW: According to one of the most self-serving press releases ever written, a group of adult Internet site producers will gather at an Internet-audiotext trade show in New Orleans this month to discuss how to deal with child pornographers, which the release calls ``some of the most reviled persons on the planet.''

About 4,000 people are expected to attend IA2000, the world's largest adult Internet/Audiotext trade show. Included will be executives from technology firms, Web hosts and service providers, credit card processors and other firms who work with adult sites, which, unfortunately, are the backbone of the Internet.

The Fight Against Child Pornography on Friday will deftly deny, according to show manager Renee Johnson, that this group paves the way for child pornographers. ``Sadly, for all its wonders, modern technology and the Internet in particular make it far easier for them to ply their loathsome trade,'' Johnson says, ignoring the responsibility of those who provide adult material.

She adds, though, that ``responsible people in the legitimate adult industry want to eradicate child porn, and we are in a unique position to do something about it.''

First, ``responsible people'' in the adult industry? When did that happen? And second, with sites that offer photos of teen girls of slight build and ask whether they are ``legal'' or not, do these ``responsible people'' themselves deal in a type of child porn?

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