Week of January 8, 2001

Facing a contentious Cabinet confirmation, attorney general nominee John

Ashcroft is set to go into a Senate hearing this week.

Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards is sentenced to 10

years in prison and fined 4250,000 for extorting payoffs from

businessmen applying for riverboat casino licenses.

Linda Chavez withdraws her nomination as Labor secretary after

questions over whether she employed an illegal immigrant.

President Clinton dedicates a statue of the late President

Franklin d. Roosevelt in his wheelchair - the first statue ever depicting a world

leader using a wheelchair - at the entry to the FDR Memorial in Washington.

Interesting story - An attempt to save money on the costs of shipping a dead

body, Janet Levine puts her dead mother in her car and drives from Colorado to

Oregon so that she could be buried next to her husband. Transporting a body

across state lines without a death certificate is illegal, but authorities said they

would not press charges against Levine.

Acclaimed racehorse “ Affirmed” dies at 26. He was the

11 th and most recent Triple Crown champ, which he did in

1978.

FedEx signs a seven-year shipping agreement valued at

$7.2 billion with the U.S. Postal service.

Passing - Al Goss (82), credited for inventing the pager,

walkie talkie and cordless phone.

Passing - William Hewlett of Hewlett/Packer fame. He was

87. He and David Packard founded the company with a

combined capital of $538 back in 1938.

Hi Tech - Napster releases a new version of its software

that includes an e-commerce link to CDNow, marking the first example of how

the alliance between the media giant and the controversial music-swapping firm

will make money.

Week of January 8, 2001

At the Consumer electronics Show, Bill

Gates unveils the Xbox game console

and Ultimate TV, a set-top box that

marries a TiVo-style digital video

recorder with WebTV-style interactive

television. Xbox, a sophisticated game

system, trumps competing consoles in

raw computing power and is seen by

many as Microsoft’s best shot at

breaking into the living rooms of

consumers.

Music news - Michael Jackson will join his brothers in making a Jackson 5

reunion album. It’s due out in July.

U2 will launch a U.S. arena tour in March.

At the American Music Awards - Faith Hill and

Tim McGraw dominate with Hill winning 3

trophies and husband McGraw winning 1. Hill

was named favorite female artist, favorite female

country artist and “Breathe” was named best

country album. Creed was chosen favorite

alternative music artist with their CD “Human

Clay.” Other winners - Toni Braxton, Backstreet

Boys, Destiny’s Child and The Dixie Chicks. The

ceremony was hosted by Britney Spears and included a performance by Jennifer

Lopez.

People’s Choice awards are handed out with Mel Gibson wining as favorite actor,

Julia Roberts as favorite actress.

Sports - David Cone leaves the Yankees for the

Boston Red Sox. “He wants to beat the Yankees,”

Boston General Manager Dan Duquette said. “Why else

would he sign with the Red Sox?”

Television news - E! recounts the unhappy life of Judy

Garland on the channel’s “E! True Hollywood Story.”

Week of January 8, 2001

CBS is adding a second “Survivor” - to premiere after the Superbowl January 28,

and the network confirms it will add a third Survivor sometime in the future.

ABC is revamping “Millionaire” - It will now be designed to attract young viewers

by placing members of groups such as the Dixie Chicks, Backsteet Boys and

Metallica in the show’s hot seat.

Time Warner agrees to sell the money losing World Championship Wrestling

operation (WCW) to an investors’ group in preparation for an AOL deal.

Fox announces plans for “Los

Luchadores,” a live-action Latino

superhero series that will join Saturday

mornings in February.

Fox affiliate WRAZ-TV in Raleigh, NC

drops Fox’s new reality series

“Temptation Island” after learning one of

the couples being enticed to break up on

the show has a child.

Hollywood news - Kim Basinger files for divorce from Alex Baldwin citing

irreconcilable differences. They were married in 1993.

Britney Spears in movie - Britney plans to make her

feature acting debut in an untitled coming-of-age story

described as “Boys on the Side” meets “Duets.”

Jason Priestley will serve five days this month at a

correction center for a drunk-driving conviction

received last year.

Ricky Martin is set to headline a George W. Bush pre-

inauguration gala January 18.

Jay Leno signs to continue hosting “The Tonight Show” through the end of 2005.

Said Leno “The negotiations took 20 minutes… I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it. Tack on

as many years as you want.”

Legendary ABC broadcaster Jim McKay will work for the 2002 Winter Olympics

in Salt Lake City for NBC. McKay will work in the studio alongside NBC host Bob

Week of January 8, 2001

Costas. He will do the sort of “up close and personal’ features that ABC

pioneered and that have become a staple of NBC’s Olympic coverage.

Friday Night TV listings -

CBS - The Fugitive, CSI: Crime Scene

Investigation, Nash Bridges , The Late

Show W/David Lettermen

NBC - Providence, Dateline NBC, Law &

Order: SVU, Tonight Show w/Jay Leno

ABC - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,

Two Guys, Norm, 20/20, Nightline

Fox - Police Videos, Freaky Links

UPN - Gary & Mike, Deathmatch,

Cheating Spouses Caught On Tape

WB - Sabrina, Sabrina, Popstars

PBS - Washington Week in Review, Wall

Street Week, Legacy of Harry T. Moore.

CSI - Grissom and Willows hunt a highway serial killer.

Law & Order: SVU - A world-renowned gymnastics

coach is a suspect in the death of a student.

20/20 - An interview with Linda Tripp is featured

David Lettermen - Christine

Baranski is featured.

Jay Leno - Catherine Zeta-

Jones and Ryan Phillippe

Top TV shows-

ER - 30.41

Orange Bowl - 27.24

Friends - 24.37

Will & Grace - 20.36

Millionaire - 20.25

Sugar Bowl - 19.78

Millionaire (Thursday) - 19.21

The Practice - 18.94

The Simpsons - 18.52

Week of January 8, 2001

Top albums -

The Beatles

Now 5 - Various artists

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored

Water - Limp Bizkit

Tha Last Meal - Snoop Dog

Stankonia - Outkast

Human Clay - Creed

Country Grammar - Nelly

Black & Blue - Backstreet Boys

Lovers rock - Sade

Greatest Hits - Lenny Kravitz

Restless - Xzbit

Hot videos on MTV -

Rollin’ - Limp Bbizkit

Stronger - Britney Spears

Love Don’t Cost A Thing - Jennifer Lopez

She Bangs - Ricky Martin

South Side - Moby

He Loves U Not - Dream

Independent Women Part 1 - Destiny’s Child

It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy

X - Xzibit

Ms. Jackson - Outkast

Top-40 -

With Arms Wide Open - Creed

It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy

If You’re Gone - Matchbox Twenty

Independent Women Part 1 - Destiny’s Child

Again - Lenny Kravitz

Case of the ex - Mya

He Loves U Not - Dream

This I Promise You - ‘N Sync

Most Girls - Pink

Crazy For This Girl - Evan and Joron

Love Don’t Cost A Thing - Jennifer Lopez

Don’t Tell Me - Madonna

Week of January 8, 2001

Gotta Tell You - Samantha Mumba

Top Country -

My Next thirty Years - Tim McGraw

Born To Fly - Sara Evans

Without You - Dixie Chicks

Tell Her - Lonestar

Burn - Jo Dee Messina

I Lost It - Kenny Chesney

There Is No Arizona - Jamie O’Neal

WWW.Memory - Alan Jackson

Best of Intentions - Travis Tritt

Wild Horses - Garth Brooks

But For The Grace of God - Keith Urban

Just Another Day In Paradise - Phil Vassar