Los Angeles US vice president Al Gore will give the keynote address at Variety's Showbizz Expo on Sunday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Gore's remarks follow three days of extensive seminar programmes and the exhibition of products and services from over 500 companies.

Other speakers over the three-day event include MCA chairman Frank Biondi, Bell Atlantic's Ray Smith, ICM's Jeff Berg, and the mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan.

Steven Spielberg is also to be inducted into the Showbizz Expo Hall of Fame.

New Orleans Registration and housing forms for the National Association of Television Program Executives' (NATPE) 34th annual programme conference and exhibition, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 January, will be available on 1 July.

This either on the worldwide web (http://www.natpe.org) or by faxing 1-310-575-5093.

Over 20,000 television and film industry executives are expected to attend the four-day event.

Burbank Walt Disney Home Video has announced a US$70 million marketing campaign in the US to back the straight-to-video release, on 13 August, of the animated feature, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, starring the voice of Robin Williams.

The release will also be the theme of Disney's "Party in Agrabah" to be held in Los Angeles' Griffith Park for the 4,000 video dealers attending the VSDA Convention. The title follows on the heels of The Return of Jafar, released in 1994, which sold 10.5 million units in the US.

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