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TUBE NEWS Yet another film-to-TV adaptation is in the works. Days after the announcements that the networks are making small screen versions of ''Legally Blonde'' and ''Zero Effect'' comes the news that Fox has bought the rights to adapt ''Save the Last Dance,'' this year's Julia Stiles-Sean Patrick Thomas hit....

The WB has ordered a midseason series that will combine improvised sketch comedy with ''Candid Camera''-style practical jokes played on unsuspecting civilians. Hosting will be Jamie Kennedy, the video store geek from the ''Scream'' movies. He'll also serve as a producer of the show....

Forty years after playing TV comedy writer Sally Rogers on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show,'' Rose Marie finally got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Marie, 78, received the honor at a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard on Wednesday, with colleagues Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner from that classic sitcom in attendance.

COMIC RELIEF After the September 11 tragedy, former ''Saturday Night Live'' player Jay Mohr wanted to cancel his Washington D.C. stand-up date. But he found audiences there so wanted to laugh that his show had sold out, and there was enough demand for him to do two more shows. This Sunday, he'll crack wise at New York's Beacon Theater, and he's donating his $50,000 take from the performance to the firehouse near his home, which lost 11 men at the World Trade Center ''I don't care if they buy beer, ladders, or go on vacation with it,'' he told Variety, ''I just have to give them the whole check.''

Originally posted Oct 05, 2001
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