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09/04/2010 10:01 AM
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Jury deadlocks in actress's LA marriage fraud case
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AP - A federal jury has deadlocked on whether Mexican-born actress Fernanda Romero and her husband committed marriage fraud in order to skirt immigration laws.
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09/04/2010 07:53 AM
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Somewhere paints intimate portrait with charm
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Reuters - After her foray into historical costumers with Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola makes a happy return to Lost in Translation territory in the cut-back charmer Somewhere, which illuminates the emptiness of a movie star's life in Los Angeles through close observation and gentle irony.
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09/04/2010 04:10 AM
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Woo awarded Golden Lion for lifetime achievement
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 AP - John Woo built his reputation with stylish Hong Kong action thrillers, then moved to Hollywood where he directed such big-budget blockbusters as Mission Impossible II.
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09/04/2010 03:15 AM
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Ne-Yo on T.I.: 'He makes a lot of poor decisions'
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 AP - Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances mdash; and it's time he gets his act together.
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09/04/2010 02:47 AM
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Coppola checks back into Venice for Somewhere
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 AP - Sofia Coppola gives audiences an insider's look into two worlds she knows intimately in her latest film: hotels and Hollywood.
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09/04/2010 02:02 AM
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Top directors headlining Telluride film fest
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 Reuters - Directors Peter Weir, Danny Boyle, Mark Romanek and Errol Morris will headline the Telluride Film Festival, the annual Labor Day holiday weekend event that kicks off Friday in the Colorado mountain resort.
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09/04/2010 12:09 AM
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Venice festival honors Chinese director John Woo
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 Reuters - The Venice film festival on Friday honored Hong Kong director John Woo, one of the few Asian filmmakers to enjoy box office success in Hollywood as well as at home.
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09/04/2010 12:04 AM
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Hollywood updates Facebook in lineup of fall movies
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 Reuters - Social media is among today's most popular catch phrases thanks to the success of, among other things, networking website Facebook -- the favored way for today's youth to communicate on a global level.
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09/03/2010 11:08 PM
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Sofia Coppola takes insider's look at Hollywood A-lister
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 Reuters - Sofia Coppola's latest movie is a Hollywood insider's look at the life of an A-list actor -- five star hotels and Ferraris, adoration and sexual advances, but also loneliness, tiresome media attention and boredom.
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09/03/2010 09:50 PM
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Box Office Preview: 'Machete' should dominate
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 AP - Twentieth Century Fox's Machete is set to slice up the competition as director Robert Rodriguez's star-studded extravaganza will likely dominate the weekend with a Friday through Monday total of around $16 million.
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09/04/2010 07:44 AM
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Chris Klein pleads no contest to drunken driving
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Reuters - Actor Chris Klein, who starred in the American Pie movies, pleaded no contest to drunken driving and will serve four years probation stemming from his arrest in June, court officials said on Friday.
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09/04/2010 07:12 AM
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The Idea of Race Flavors DC Revival of 1950s Comedy 'Sabrina Fair'; Susan Heyward Is Sabrina
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Samuel A. Taylor's romantic comedy iSabrina Fair/i, better known as the Audrey Hepburn film Sabrina, will get a fresh twist at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, Oct. 1-24. The title role of a chauffeur's daughter mdash; who is the object of affection from two rich brothers mdash; will be played by black actress Susan Heyward./p
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09/04/2010 03:31 AM
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Stranded actor Paul Hogan in Australia tax deal
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Reuters - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee movies, has struck a deal with Australia's tax office which will allow him to return home to his family in Los Angeles, his lawyer said on Friday.
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09/03/2010 01:05 PM
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Toronto film fest boss stays cool under pressure
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Reuters - The famously unflappable Cameron Bailey is looking a touch puzzled, and has for weeks.
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09/03/2010 09:27 PM
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Brendan Fraser to co-star in 'Elling' on Broadway
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 AP - Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare will star in the comedy Elling.
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09/03/2010 03:48 PM
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Vivid Entertainment: A new business model for porn
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Reuters - If the new Date Night DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch -- or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter -- that figure represents a blockbuster.
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09/03/2010 08:22 PM
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'Gone with the Wind' child actress dies at 76
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 AP - Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, has died at the age of 76.
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09/03/2010 01:58 PM
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Beautiful people look good in Norwegian Wood
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Reuters - The fact that Norwegian Wood is based on Haruki Murakami's 1987 international best-seller should encourage many viewers to give this long, elegantly shot, sporadically involving Japanese film a try.
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09/03/2010 08:20 PM
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'Crocodile Dundee' to return to US amid tax fray
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 AP - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday.
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09/03/2010 01:35 PM
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Schnabel ponders Palestinian conflict in Miral
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Reuters - Sure to excite curiosity thanks to the reputation of director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and its controversial topicality, Miral dramatically but unevenly explores the lives of four Palestinian women during the years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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