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New York Studio Developers Fight City Hall
30 October 2002 (StudioBriefing)
The developers of Stapleton Studios on New York's Staten Island filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday and sought a restraining order that would bar the city from closing the studio down Thursday. The legal action followed a rally near the studio site on Monday at which actor Danny Aiello, one of the studio partners, accused the city's Economic Development Corp. of high-handed tactics. As reported by the Staten Island Advance, Aiello told the crowd: "I'd like to know what the EDC has built in the last year that is tantamount to what we built here." In an interview with New York Daily News columnist Denis Hamill, Aiello commented: "We took this white elephant, and in eight months we have built a state-of-the-art sound stage and already shot our first movie here that otherwise would have run north to Canada." The EDC, however, has maintained that the Stapleton developers are "amateurs" who have failed to make good on their promises.

Jenny Is Singled Out
15 January 1998 (StudioBriefing)
Jenny, the show that all the networks had bid fiercely for a year ago, is being pulled from NBC's schedule. And, although the network says it will make good on its 22-episode guarantee, analysts said Wednesday that it is unlikely that the show will return to the air. Jenny had starred Jenny McCarthy, Playboy's 1994 Playmate of the Year, who went on to host MTV's hit game show, Singled Out. She netted a $1 million advance from HarperCollins for her autobiography, Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book. But her sitcom, first slotted on Sundays, then moved to Mondays, failed to find an audience, finishing 75th out of 115 primetime shows last week. (The somewhat less physically endowed Danny Aiello has also received the boot. CBS has canceled his Tuesday-night private-eye drama Dellaventura effective immediately. It came in 8 places below Jenny.)