Week of February 15, 2001
President Bush orders warplanes to strike five air defense sites on the outskirts
of Baghdad. It’s clearly a signal he expects Saddam Hussein to abide by the Gulf
war accord.
President Bush says he would ask Congress to triple spending for an elementary
school reading program next year.
The U.S. charges Robert Philip Hanseen - a veteran FBI counterintelligence
agent on charges of spying for Moscow for the last 15 years. The FBI is calling it
one of the most damaging espionage cases in U.S. history.
Technology -
Attempting to settle lawsuits from the record industry, Napster
offers to pay record companies $1 billion over five years for the right to include
their music in a new fee based song-swapping service
.
Advertising -
Coca-Cola Co. will be Warner Bros’ promotional partner for the
upcoming movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” The ad campaign will
include the placement of Harry Potter-related images on Coca-Cola, Minute Maid
and Hi-C packaging, but won’t extend to product placement in the movie.
Sports - shocker as
Dale Earnhardt
(49) -
who is called America’s greatest stock car
racer is killed on the final turn of the last lap
of the Daytona 500 when his Chevrolet
Monte Carlo crashed almost head-on into a
concrete retaining wall at Daytona. He was
49 and a seven-time Winston Cup champ
and winner of the 1998 Daytona 500. He was
racing for third position on the fourth turn
when his car was tapped in the rear by
Sterling Marlin’s Dodge.
Music news - It’s confirmed - Sean “Puffy”
Combs breaks-up with Jennifer Lopez.
Television news -
Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger - who were made infamous on Fox’ “Who
Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” make their first post honeymoon appearance
on Larry King’s CNN program.
Getting attention - A Sci-Fi Channel original “Black Scorpion” as our superhero
is a female!. It was co-created by B-movie king Roger Corman.
Week of February 15, 2001
Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” will host the 43
rd
annual
Grammy Awards next Wednesday over CBS-TV.
“Barbara Streisand: Timeless” - billed as her
last TV concert - drew 8.8 million viewers to
Fox-TV.
Thursday night television -
CBS - Survivor: The Australian Outback, CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation, 48 Hours, Late
Show
NBC - Friends, Friends Outtakes, Will &
Grace, Just Shoot Me, ER, Tonight, Conan
O’Brien
ABC - Whose Line is It Anyway? Who Wants
To Be A Millionaire, Prime Time Thursday,
Nightline
Fox - World’s Most Incredible Animal
Rescues, Conspiracy Theory-Did We Land on
the Moon?
UPN - WWF Smackdown
WB - Gilmore Girls, Charmed
PBS - Mystery!, Charlie Rose
WWF Smackdown - Michael Cole and Jerry (The King) Lawler are at ringside.
Late Show - Rapper
Nelly performs
.
Tonight - Keanu Reeves joins Jay Leno.
Top 5 DVD Rentals -
What Lies Beneath
Me, Myself and Irene
Coyote Ugly
Disney’s the Kid
Hollow Men
At the movies -
Hannibal
Down to earth
Recess: School’s Out
Sweet November
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
