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ENTER'D dN M EN T Patrick Stewart (left) and Brent Spiner (right) star in Star Trek: First Contact, a movie featuring tMBEM characters from the TV u principle show “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” flash z-X , Scott Adams’ Dilbert, the i comic strip about office politics, captures the nation's Tom Cruise stars in imagination. In book form, The Jerry Maguire, a Dilbert Principle becomes a romantic comedy about a national best-seller. sports agent who decides to change his 20th Century Fox from Shooting Star shallow ways, and spends the rest of the movie trying to regain his success. It is a breakthrough role for Cruise, who is normally depicted as a cocky winner. x-J Academy Award- To honor the 20th anniversary of its I ’ winning actor release, producer George Tom Hanks’ first effort Lucas issues a “remade” at directing receives Actors Winona Ryder and Star Wars, with new critical praise when Daniel Day-Lewis star in The scenes, computerized That Thing You Do!, a Crucible, which opens in December. special effects and movie about the souped-up animation. The screen adaption of Arthur meteoric rise and fall of Lucas’ grand plan calls Miller’s famous play about the a 1960s rock band, for a nine-film cycle, Salem witch trials is written by opens in October. including prequels. Arthur Miller himself. English actor/director 20th Century Fox trom Shooting Star Kenneth Branagh plays Hamlet in his star- studded remake of Model Brooke Shields (center) Shakespeare’s classic. moves to television in NBC’s Despite running four "Suddenly Susan,” a sit-com premiering hours, the movie is a in September. Shields plays a columnist critical and box-office opposite magazine editor Judd Nelson success. (far right). NBC’s Thursday night drama “ER” features _ Author television’s first HIV positive prominent Michael character. Jeanie Boulet, I Crichton a physician’s assistant I publishes The played by Gloria Reuben, i Lost World, a is relatively open about Sherry Stringfield, Dr. Susan I sequel to her condition and helps Lewis on NBC’s "ER,” leaves Jurassic Park, confront the stigma the show at the peak of her the colossal of AIDS. character’s popularity. In her final novel and movie. The episode, when Dr. Mark Greene, NBC from Shooting Star played by Anthony Edwards, declares iCRtWS new book his love for Susan, the show gamers promises to its highest ratings ever. generate just as much hype, with a movie already in the works. _z--J ; Explosive special Bugs Bunny and Chicago Bulls effects rivet T basketball star Michael Jordan audiences to their seats share top billing in Space Jam, a as they watch partially animated feature film that Independence Day, opens in late November. one of summer’s blockbuster movies. 20th Century Fox from Shooting Star PS 4 : In September, Tom Cruise stars in Leonardo Mission: Impossible, based John Lithgow (front right) DiCaprio and Claire on the 1960s and ‘70s television I earnse both an Emmy and a Danes star as the series of the same name. Despite Golden Globe Award for Best Actor classic star-crossed critical put-downs, the movie is a in a Comedy Series in NBC’s “3rd :t.l lovers in the film huge box-office hit. Rock From the Sun,” a sit-com Romeo and Juliet. about a family of aliens living in 20th Century Fox from Shooting Star contemporary America. Actors Brad Pitt (left) and Jason Patrie star in America’s favorite sit-com Sleepers, a film about four men and father, Bill Cosby, enjoys the their extraordinary scheme to success of his new CBS show, “Cosby.” revenge the abuse they experienced In January 1997, however, tragedy as boys. The controversial movie strikes as Cosby’s son Ennis is killed in also stars Dustin Hoffman, Robert Los Angeles in an apparent De Niro and Kevin Bacon. random robbery. /arner Bros, from Kobal Michael J. Fox returns to television in September as a deputy mayor in ABC’s "Spin . J| City,” a sit-com about Sfc, the inner workings of New York’s C if x-jk. Stars Bill Paxton and Helen f Hunt flee a tornado of awesome proportions in Twister, another summer blockbuster, which tells the story of storm chasers highly devoted to studying the inner workings of tornadoes. 1 Dream Works SKG from I Shooting Star ENTERTAINMENT.