TRADEMARK CONFLICT NOT FUNNY. Second City Television (SCTV) took umbrage over the SCTV acronym of the new Stand-Up Comedy Television cable channel and told the upstart channel t...

A law suit started by an actress, who had not been paid a $700 fee for four months and brought against Park Ridge talent agency McBlaine & Associates, was settled after five mon...

The husband-and-wife team of Beth and Gary Hoover have forsaken all others, so to speak, to concentrate on a screenwriting career in Chicago. Their focus and determination ...

No sooner was the new Standup Comedy Television (SCTV) cable channel announced than "people were dropping off their resumes and show ideas," said program director Peter Kimball,...

Michelle De Long: Her doc shows the growing movement toward animal rights law. Attorney Amy Breyer is Illinois' only practicioner of animal rights law. If you're one of th...

When Ben Hollis was in London two years ago, he stayed at a bed and breakfast owned by the author of a book about a legendary English cabaret and variety star. After learni...

ARMY ON THE MARCH. Leo Burnett's Ray Swift produced a five-minute Army Special Forces recruitment video called "Surveillance" and a 60 and 30 that was edited Optimus' Craig Lewa...

"Cup of My Blood" got an L.A. reception that was "universally enthusiastic" last week when filmmakers Lance Catania and co-producers Noel Olken and Kenny Nilsson shopped the fea...

Filmmaker Misty Tosh and her friends are adventurous souls who also love to eat out in offbeat restaurants and cafes they find in unspoiled locales. They combined their s...

Want to win $100 and a case of beer every week for a year? That prize is yours if your commercial for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is picked by the Pabst people to run in a DVD of in...

A chance meeting on an L.A. street between rapper DMX and novice filmmaker Raymond Thomas led to DMX' company optioning Thomas' first short film to developing it into a feature....

After searching for a new theatre for their improv shows and classrooms for almost four years, Annoyance Production founders Mick Napier and Jennifer Estlin leased "ideal theatr...

The character-driven story is about nine Little League misfits who are reunited by the death of their former coach. The coach leaves his beloved Windy Field baseball stadium lo...

Recognizing the revenue potential from licensing content assets from its immense 50-year old library, Ch. 11 hired licensing expert Barry O'Connell and formed a new department e...

John Zwierzko, a.k.a. Johnny Z returned to JWT as a producer, engineer and sound designer. A 22-year agency veteran, he nonetheless was canned during a wave of firings 17 mont...

A RAD APPROACH I-Cubed's Arturo edited five spots for Alberto VO-5 through its new agency, Element 79, of which he created three "more radical ?pushed' versions," he said. Denn...