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The Hollywood Minute

May 13, 1996
Web posted at: 2:15 p.m. EDT

From Entertainment Correspondent Dennis Michael

Central Park West

HOLLYWOOD, California (CNN) -- The now-defunct CBS series "Central Park West" will return to the prime time schedule in early June, but under a different name, says The Hollywood Reporter trade paper. The new name will be (who'd have guessed it?) C.P.W. The cast will include Gerald McRaney and Raquel Welch.


Actor Timothy Hutton has had a great career in front of the camera, and now he's going to venture behind it. Daily Variety reports from the Cannes Film Festival that Hutton will begin work on "Digging to China" in August in Los Angeles. The film is described as a small, personal drama.



If "Barb Wire" isn't fulfilling your Pamela Anderson Lee quotient, then listen up. Daily Variety reports the actress is in final negotiations to co-star in "Giftwrapped," a sexy comedy for Mayfair Entertainment.

 Pamela Lee


The classic sci-fi novel "Starship Troopers" will soon be leaping onto the big screen. Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ironside and director Paul Verhoeven have begun work on the film based on the Robert A. Heinlein book. Shooting has already begun in Wyoming and South Dakota.



The new "Star Trek" movie has a new name. Initially titled "Star Trek -- Generations Two," the movie is now being shot under the name "Star Trek -- First Contact." The original title was to be "Star Trek -- Resurrection," but the fourth episode of Fox's "Alien" series, "Alien Resurrection," got there first.


Talk show host Maury Povich says the movie "Rebel Without a Cause" changed his life. The American Movie Classics channel is doing a series of presentations of films with commentary by people you might not identify with them. Povich, who was 16 when the film was released, gave up street racing when he saw the movie.


Tom Petty is going Hollywood. Billboard magazine reports the veteran rocker has written the score for a new film called "She's the One." He's also created six songs for the movie which is due later this summer.

 Tom Petty

Beavis

MTV revolutionized television; now its hoping to do the same for movies. Billboard magazine reports the music channel's new MTV films division has announced plans to make big-screen adaptations of "The Maxx," "Aeon Flux" and "Beavis and Butthead".

Actor Dennis Hopper has a new project in the works. The Hollywood Reporter trade paper notes the legendary actor is set to star in "Siren's Song," an action horror film set to shoot this fall. Hopper plays a cop investigating a 4,000-year-old being who lures men to their deaths with her voice.


The acclaimed television series "The X-files" has already conquered the United States and now it's staking its claim on Japan. The show began airing on TV Asahi last November. Daily Variety reports that the show's cult following in Japan actually started a year ago, when it arrived on home video.


No sophomore slump for hot rockers "Hootie & the Blowfish." The band's second album, "Fairweather Johnson," is number one on the Billboard magazine albums chart for the second week.


CBS will spend "48 Hours" with country singer Patty Loveless. The news show went on the road with Loveless recently and will air the footage Thursday.



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