Week of April 1, 2001

In Belgrade - Former Yugoslav President Stobodan Milosevic surrenders to

authorities and is imprisoned. It ends a 40-hour standoff between his bodyguards

and police.

A U.S. Navy spy plane and a Chinese fighter collide over the South China Sea.

The American aircraft had to make an emergency landing on China’s Hainan

Island while the Chinese jet crashed. All 24 crewmembers aboard the EP-3 U.S.

reconnaissance plane were unhurt, but no contact with them has been

established.

The Senate approves a broad change in campaign finance rules. It includes the

first ban on unlimited donations to political parties - so called ‘soft-money”

donations.

The Chinese government grants U.S. officials a first and second meeting with the

24 crewmembers of an American spy plane stranded in southern China.

The House passed a bill that would repeal the estate tax - but two years longer

than President Bush had sought.

In Amsterdam - Four gay couples

exchange rings and vows at City Hall

becoming what rights groups called the

world’s first homosexuals to wed

legally. The ceremony capped a 15-

year campaign to award gay couples

equal rights under civil law.

PG&G - one of the state’s two major

utility companies, files for bankruptcy

as its debts surpass $9 billion and as negotiations with governor Gray Davis go

nowhere. Like others in the state - PG&E has been squeezed tighter in the past

year as wholesale cost of electricity has risen tenfold and more.

The unemployment rate etched up to 4.3%.

Technology -

Yahoo, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment announce the

outlines to sell music online.

Week of April 1, 2001

Creative Technology Inc drops the price of its Nomad Jukebox mp-3 player to

$269- the lowest price for a portable mp-3 player so far. About 3.3 million mp-3

players were sold last year and the market is expected to grow to nearly 26

million in 2005.

Entertainment news -

Nicole Kidman tells the Sydney Morning

Herald that the weeks since her split with

Tom Cruise have been the toughest of her

life and that her miscarriage earlier this

year had been “very evasive” as far as the

media and her treatment.

Regis Philbin is named as grand marshal

for the next Rose Bowl parade.

Remember the Titans

Meet the Parents

Almost Famous

Bedazzled

The Contender.

Hot Hits -

Get Over Yourself - Eden’s Crush

All For You - Janet Jackson

Stranger In My House - Tamia

Missing You - Case

Request Line - Black Eyed Peas

What Would You Da - City High

Bizounce - Olivia

Look at Us - Sarina Paris

It’s Over Now - 112

Bow Wow - Lil’ Bow Wow

Music news -

MTV apologizes after two 14-year-old girls

were sprayed with excrement by

performers on the taping of “Dude this

Sucks,”

Marion “Suge” Knight, behind bars since

October 1996 for a California state

Week of April 1, 2001

probation violation stemming from his involvement in an assault at a Los Vegas

hotel - has a few more months to serve. His “Death Row Records” is still going

strong.

No wonder why they are ticked-off - AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI and

Sony have received an estimated $80 million in settlements from mp3.com but

none has shared the money with their recording artists.

Radio news -

Premiere Radio begins syndicating Jay Leno’s joke highlights from the previous

night’s “Tonight” show - in “Last Night on the Tonight Show w/Jay Leno.”

Television news -

An Italian American legal group sues the producers of HBO’s “The Sopranos,”

claiming that it “suggests that criminality is the blood or n the genes of Italian

Americans.”

CBS News anchor Dan Rather apologizes for taking part in a recent Texas

Democratic Party fund-raising event - which was in violation of CBS News’

ethical standards.

with one-hour finale on May 22.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Touched by

an Angel, Movie

NBC - Dateline NBC, Movie

ABC - Disney movie, Who

Wants To Be A Millionaire, The

Practice

UPN - Maximum Exposure,

Star Trek Voyager

Fox - The Simpsons, Malcolm

in the Middle, X-Files

WB - Jamie Foxx, The

Oblongs, Steve Harvey, Nikki

PBS - Nature, Masterpiece

Theatre

HBO - The Sopranos

VH-1 - Behind the Music

Week of April 1, 2001

The Oblongs (debut) - A family living

near a toxic dump site, develops physical

and emotional abnormalities. (cartoon)

X-Files

- Mulder’s death investigation is

re-opened after a man’s reappearance.

At the movies -

Spy Kids

Someone Like You

Heartbreakers

Tomcats

The Brothers

Enemy at the Gates

Exit Wounds

Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon

Traffic

The Mexican

Week of April 1, 2001