William Donohue led protest in 1998 against Terrence McNally’s play with gay Jesus. But calls Muslim death sentence on playwright “outrageous.” – Backstage
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NBC OFFERS RECORD AMOUNT FOR LOCAL AFFILIATE
Preemptive offer of $700 million for San Francisco’s KRON is most ever for a single station. San Francisco Examiner
GUERRILLA MARKETING
Independent films with small budgets take to the internet, campuses, as alternative to mass-media campaign. Hey, it worked big time for “Blair Witch.” Orange County Register
FILM-AID
The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to consider setting up a loan fund for the TV and movie industry – an attempt to stem the exodus of projects leaving town for the cheaper climes of Canada. Backstage
A Ph.D IN BEING SMART?
Florida university creates a doctoral program to turn out “public intellectuals.” So now you need a degree to drop a literary reference at a cocktail party? Chronicle of Higher Education
AND: Camille Paglia retorts: “They’re going to groom people–what? To be me? Slate
HONOR IN ABSENTIA
Clips of movie nominated for Canada’s top film award can’t be shown on national broadcast of this weekend’s awards because Canadian judge has banned it from the air. National Post
“SOBER, SEARING AND CYNICAL”
A review of J.M Coetzee’s “Disgrace,” which won the Booker Prize last week. – Salon