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Prime time to learn
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAMERICANS more than just believe the health information they get from fictional television shows. Spurred by what they see on shows like "ER" or "The Bold and the Beautiful," surveys suggest, they take action. They go to the doctor. They tell a friend...Tags: Literature, Unions, AIDS, University of California, Los Angeles, Family
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TV's grave new world
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterREMEMBER when they used to gobble horse innards and other delicacies on "Fear Factor"? Ah, 'twas prime time's golden age. Blame it on the writers strike, but network TV is rushing to embrace cheap and sponsor-friendly unscripted programming that makes...Tags: Entertainment, Marketing, Wildfires, Forests, Hulk Hogan
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NBC's Green Week gets overshadowed
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you watched any shows on NBC this week, you probably saw the greenery. Al Gore appears on "30 Rock." Chuck (from "Chuck") visits Stanford University, coinciding with an annual "green" festival. On "Journeyman," Dan takes time from his "trip to the...Tags: Entertainment, Stanford University, Al Gore, Management Change, Gaming
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Strike about to cost jobs
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA day after Hollywood's writers went out on strike, the major studios are hitting back with plans to suspend scores of long-term deals with television production companies, jeopardizing the jobs of hundreds of rank-and-file employees whose names never...Tags: Entertainment, Employees, Unions, Breach of Contract, The Walt Disney Co.
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Directors uncertain about their contract talks
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersAs film and TV writers are walking the picket line, the directors who bring their scripts to life are walking their own fine line. Directors are in a quandary over when to begin their contract talks with the major studios. Historically, directors have...Tags: Entertainment, Collective Contract, Unions, DVDs, Interior Policy
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The doctor is in . . . bed with one
The patients at "ER's" County General Hospital weren't the only ones receiving a little TLC.
In between the endless paperwork and bloody surgeries, young doctors and nurses in love -- and sometimes not -- administered a crash cart full of sexual...Tags: Entertainment, Nursing, Noah Wyle, Television Industry, John Stamos
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On 'ER,' two minutes and years of plot twists
On the night of Feb. 10, 2000 -- in the pre-spoiler era, when it was possible to watch an episode of television and be wholly surprised -- "ER" viewers found themselves stunned/petrified by its final two minutes.
The scene: During a Valentine's Day party...Tags: Entertainment, Noah Wyle, Television Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Kellie Martin
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Hot Property: Julianna Margulies' Santa Monica home for sale at $4.5 million
Hot PropertyWhenever I walk into a hospital emergency room, I still look for Nurse Hathaway -- the one who goes the extra mile for her patients, even when someone who looks like George Clooney is distracting her at the moment. Actress Julianna Margulies may have...Tags: Entertainment, Marketing, Photography, Personal Service, Los Angeles Lakers
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Vondie Curtis-Hall drops price of Hollywood Hills house to $2,295,000
You've seen his face all over TV for years, now won't you please go see the man's house? Actor Vondie Curtis-Hall and his wife, Kasi Lemmons, just dropped the price on their Hollywood Hills home by 21% -- from $2,899,000 to $2,295,000.
Previously, they...Tags: Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, Realty, Personal Service, Family
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Soaps take 'Night Shift'
Staff WriterDaytime soaps are in peril and it just may be that prime-time is riding to the rescue. While soap opera audiences continue to dwindle, SoapNet, the Disney-owned cable channel devoted to sex-and-suffering serials, is embarking on a mission to revive the...Tags: HIV, Literature, Entertainment, Opera (genre), Music Theater
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Hey, Hollywood: Why not work on the L.A. stage?
Theater CriticThere are precious few guarantees in the theater anymore. Boffo playwrights went out with the Neil Simon dinosaurs. A new show by Stephen Sondheim, hands down the greatest living musical theater composer, can't even count on a Broadway booking. The only...Tags: Academy Awards, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Brothers and Sisters (tv program), Jane Fonda
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The strike aside, hit shows are still missing
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN NBC's Golden Globes telecast devolved into a fiasco earlier this month, with ratings skidding more than 70%, it seemed to hammer home the conventional wisdom about the writers strike. The strike by the Writers Guild of America, you'll recall, was...Tags: Don't Forget the Lyrics! (tv program), Entertainment, Law & Order (tv program), Unions, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (tv program)
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