WINNERS & LOSERS THE NETWORK'S FALL LINEUPS
[WINNERS]
BROOKE SHIELDS Her Suddenly Susan sitcom lands dream spot sandwiched between Seinfeld and ER
CARSEY-WERNER CO. Indy producers (Roseanne, 3rd Rock) will air an astonishing seven shows next season
1980S NOSTALGISTS Molly Ringwald, Michael J. Fox and Malcolm-Jamal Warner are all back in new comedies
[& LOSERS]
DANIEL BENZALI Murder One is renewed, but its star is sent packing. Possible replacement: Alan Alda
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED Helped capture 422 criminals in nine seasons. Canceled by Fox in favor of two comedies
DISNEY CEO MICHAEL EISNER ABC, now owned by Disney, rejects pilot for Eisner-hosted Disney Family Movie
WHAT'S IN A MOB NAME?
Last week in Sicily, Italian police arrested the country's top Mafioso, Giovanni Brusca, leading many Americans to wonder, Do Italian mobsters have colorful nicknames the way well-known U.S. mobsters do, like Vincent ("The Chin") Gigante and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano? In fact, Brusca is known as "The Pig." Other examples of Sicilian nomenclature:
Bernardo ("The Tractor") Provenzano (a boss from Corleone)
Pino ("The Shoe") Greco (assassinated in 1985)
Salvatore ("The Senator") Greco (cousin of The Shoe)
Santino ("Half-Nose") Di Matteo (now an informer)
Vincenzo ("The Tempest") Sinagra (known for his temper)
COLBY'S VIDEO GOODBYE
Subject: the assassination of President Kennedy. Speaker: William Colby. Just days before his fatal canoe accident, the former CIA director gave one of his last interviews to the CD-ROM magazine Blender. The June/July issue offers a grainy video, recorded at a sidewalk cafe in Washington, in which Colby ruminates on Oswald-as-commie-spy stories, bullet trajectories and JFK director Oliver Stone. Colby's conclusion: "You have to look at [the assassination] suspiciously," but there's no definitive proof anyone but Oswald was involved. Afterward, Blender reporter James Gordon Meek thanks Colby for his candor: "You talk about the Kennedy thing more than anyone alive." Hmmmm. Mr. Stone?
SUPREME COURT LUNCH? LET BREYER PICK UP THE TAB
The Justices of the Supreme Court released their annual financial-disclosure statements last week. A closer look (for their assets the Justices are required only to state a range):
JUSTICE ASSETS DECLARED GIFTS AND OUTSIDE INCOME
Breyer $4.5 to Travel to Barcelona and Florence $7.3 million for summer teaching gig and conferences
Ginsburg $4.4 to Travel to Innsbruck, Austria, $7.1 million for summer teaching gig
O'Connor $1.6 to $50 gargoyle from University $4.1 million of Wisconsin
Stevens $1.2 to More honorary club memberships $2.5 million than any other Justice
Souter $910,000 to Only Justice to list "numerous $1.95 million books from authors and publishers"
Scalia $595,000 to Travel to Nice, France, for $1.3 million teaching gig
Rehnquist $260,000 to $22,500 book advance from Knopf $675,000
Kennedy $30,000 to Travel to China for the National $370,000 Committee on U.S.-China Relations