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· ABC anchor Peter Jennings announces that he has lung cancer, but will remain on the desk while he undergoes treatment. ABC News president David Westin reacts to the news by making perhaps the most inappropriate analogy in the history of broadcasting: "Peter's been given a tough assignment." [THR]
· Graham King, producer of The Aviator and Gangs of New York, signs first-look deal with Warner Brothers. Unfortunately, our primitive minds are too smooth to comprehend the domino-effect this move will have on King's Initial Entertainment Group and its relationships with various A-list actors' vanity production companies. [Variety]
· Sean Connery gets another crack at donning James Bond's tuxedo, as he'll do voiceover for the video game version of From Russia with Love. Come to think of it, it would be pretty pathetic if he actually wears the tuxedo to a voiceover session. Or if he gratuitously bares his chest hair for the sound engineers. [THR]
· Al Gore finally reveals his cable network, Current, which will feature "original public affairs and entertainment programming produced by and directed at young people" who have a thirst for boredom that not even CSPAN can quench. [Variety]
· After 10 years of our spectacularly successful efforts to avoid viewing even a single episode of the series, this season of JAG will be its last. Goodbye, old friend. [Variety]