The appointment was made by Peter Bart, the editorial director of both weekly Variety and Daily Variety.

Emanuel Levy, writing about the film in weekly Variety, said, "Dreyfuss .

Cahners executives say that comparison ignores weekly Variety, which had 3,700 ad pages last year, but Reporter does not compete directly with the weekly.

Plans are afoot to integrate the rate cards of weekly Variety and Daily Variety, permitting advertisers to buy space in both at preferred rates.

The show business weekly Variety listed the Oct. 14 to 20 receipts as $427,966, out of a potential gross of $645,048 for the 1,576-seat theater.

An export committee member was quoted in weekly Variety as calling the film "junk."

Meredith Amdur, business analyst of the weekly Variety, says: "Nobody's sure what indie means anymore.

A recent ad in the weekly Variety for "Get Shorty" depicts the cast members with a bright blue $110,000,000 above their heads.

The entertainment trade weekly Variety reported yesterday that Mr. Caruso had asked to be paid $100,000 an episode.

A weekly Variety has been published in Manhattan since 1905.