NEWS & NOTES : BRANCHING OUT, SCHWIMMER SIGNS ON FOR STEPHEN KING FILM.Byline: Daily News Wire Services David Schwimmer, a star of NBC's ``Friends,'' has not given up his dreams of expanding beyond his role as Ross on that hit comedy. Besides his current starring role in a play in Los Angeles called ``D Girl,'' Schwimmer agreed Tuesday to be a co-star in a film, ``Apt Pupil,'' which is currently being shot in Los Angeles. All of this extracurricular work has to be squeezed in around the final two episodes of the ``Friends'' season, which are to be filmed this week and next. ``Apt Pupil,'' to be produced by Phoenix Pictures for the TriStar studio, is based on a novella by Stephen King. Schwimmer will play a school guidance counselor who unknowingly becomes involved in a plot by one of his students to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of information about the Holocaust from a neighbor the boy has discovered is a Nazi war criminal in hiding. The film will be Schwimmer's first since he starred in last year's comedy ``The Pallbearer,'' one of several films made by the stars of ``Friends'' that were disappointments at the box office. The one hit for a member of the show's cast was ``Scream,'' in which Courteney Cox was a co-star. Spotlight on new music: HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy and Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. will jointly introduce a new music series April 13 on HBO2. The channel's first original weekly series will spotlight emerging music artists in a 45-minute show that will run for 13 weeks at 11 p.m. Sundays. ``Reverb'' will intersperse in·ter·sperse tr.v. in·ter·spersed, in·ter·spers·ing, in·ter·spers·es 1. To distribute among other things at intervals: interviews and live club performances at venues such as the Viper Room in West Hollywood, New York's Irving Plaza, Tramps, Westbeth Theater, Under Acme and the Supper Club with artists such as the Eels, Pavement and Poe, who will appear on the first installment. Future episodes will feature Archers of Loaf Archers of Loaf was an American indie-rock band originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. History of the band Icky Mettle Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price, all originally from Asheville, NC, , Cibo Matto, Failure, Fountains of Wayne This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. , Eva Haze, Gigolo Aunts, Bill Janovitz, Lemonheads, Letters to Cleo Letters to Cleo were an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts (although they originally started out as a ska band). The band was made up of members Michael Eisenstein, Kay Hanley, Stacy Jones, Greg McKenna, Scott Riebling, and Tom Polce. , Melvins, Morphine, Bob Mould, Railroad Jerk, Reverend Horton Heat, Sebadoh, Duncan Sheik, Jill Sobule, Soul Coughing, Matthew Sweet, Wilco and others. Cosby joins mystery lineup: Bill Cosby joins Peter Falk, Dennis Weaver and Jack Klugman in the happy hunting ground Happy Hunting Ground translation of Indian name for heaven. [North Am. Indian Myth.: Misc.] See : Heaven Happy Hunting Ground paradise for American Indians. [Am. Culture: Jobes, 724] See : Paradise where all good detective shows go to live forever - the daytime mystery lineup on A&E. The cable network, which has made its prime-time name with the ``Biography'' series and first-run mysteries, fills the daytime hours with reruns of mystery and crime shows such as ``Quincy'' (starring Klugman), ``McCloud'' (Weaver) and ``Columbo'' (Falk). ``The Cosby Mysteries'' - in which Cosby played Guy Hanks, a retired criminologist who helps the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. police - survived for just one season, 1994-95, on NBC. There are 18 one-hour episodes; they will appear on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. CBS' best showing: Monday night's NCAA finals brought CBS its best ratings for any kind of programing in two years. CBS research estimates that 50 million people watched at least a portion of the network's coverage of the championship contest between Arizona and Kentucky. That's about 9 percent more than the estimated 46 million who watched the 1996 finals (Syracuse vs. Kentucky). |
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