THE BUZZ : `ANNIE' MUSICAL GETTING TV TREATMENT.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Walt Disney Television Walt Disney Television is the television production division of The Walt Disney Company with Walt Disney name. Until 1983, Disney shows were aired under the banner of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions. will produce an all new adaptation of acclaimed musical ``Annie'' for the 1999-2000 season of ABC's ``The Wonderful World of Disney.'' Following on the heels of ``Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,'' Craig Zadan and Neil Meron of Storyline Entertainment and Chris Montan of Chris Montan Productions will reteam to remake ``Annie'' for the November sweeps. Zadan says the goal is to reinvent ``Annie'' much the same way the production team did for ``Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.'' The latter telefilm tel·e·film n. A film produced for television broadcasting. Noun 1. telefilm - a movie that is made to be shown on television - which featured an all-star, multicultural cast - was seen by 60 million viewers and generated seven Emmy nominations. In fact, it is ABC's hope to turn ``Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella'' into a perennial favorite much like ``The Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz reaches and departs from Oz in circus balloon. [Children’s Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ballooning Wizard of Oz false wizard takes up residence in Emerald City. [Am. Lit. .'' The network will air an encore presentation of the Whitney Houston-Brandy starrer Feb. 14. ``After the success of `Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,' we've been looking for another opportunity to produce a wonderful family musical,'' said Charles Hirschhorn, Walt Disney TV president. ``I think we've found it with `Annie.' '' Oscar plans: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going to take care of one of its own when Oscar night moves to Sunday this year on March 21. Geena Davis, winner of a supporting actress prize for ``The Accidental Tourist'' in 1988, has been tapped as host of a new preshow on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . What, you were expecting Joan Rivers? One of the benefits of Oscar moving to Sunday - besides the fact that it is the night with the largest TV audience - is that the ceremonies can start (and, it is hoped, end) earlier. The actual Oscarcast will begin at 8:30, instead of the customary 9, with the lead-in show scheduled for 8. This year's host will be announced next week, according to Gil Cates n. pl. 1. Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. - Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. - R. Browning. , who is producing the telecast. The preview will include the customary arrival of the stars, but it also will have footage of the nominees' luncheon and some exclusive interviews inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. . These haven't been available to the syndicated and cable Oscar previews. Pay-phone problem?: From the mysterious land of microwaved poodles and Neiman Marcus cookie recipes comes yet another urban legend, now circulating on the Internet. ``Think twice before sticking your finger in a pay phone,'' goes one warning now being e-mailed en masse around the country. It goes on to explain that drug addicts are using coin-return slots as their repository of choice for their dirty needles. ``People are putting their fingers in to recover coins or just to check if anyone left change,'' the warning reads. ``They are getting stuck by these needles and infected with hepatitis, HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and other diseases.'' Says who? That's what Vince Sandusky would like to know. The president of American Public Communications Council, the national association of independent pay-phone providers, said he hasn't found a single reported incident of needles in pay phones. Neither has the Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established in 1973 by President richard m. nixon as part of the Justice Department, thus uniting a number of federal drug agencies that had often worked at cross-purposes. nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. , say representatives for those agencies. |
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