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Hilary Swank chops hair for Amelia Earhart role
Los Angeles TimesHilary Swank bailed from filming "Amelia," the story of famed aviatrix-gone-missing Amelia Earhart, long enough to do a fly-by at Donald Trump's Saturday night bash for his new Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai at a private estate in Beverly...Tags: Hilary Swank, Beverly Hills, Richard Gere, Donald Trump, Ewan McGregor
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UN-backed film to premiere at Rome film fest
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday. Titled "8," the movie aims to raise awareness...Tags: Gael Garcia Bernal, Isabelle Huppert, Ralph Fiennes, Marguerite Duras, Film Festivals
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Tim Burton Finds His Alice for 'Wonderland'
Zap2It.comTim Burton has finally found the right leading lady to play the title role in his version of "Alice in Wonderland." According to Variety, Mia Wasikowska is in final negotiations to play Alice, a young woman who goes down a rabbit's hole and finds all...Tags: Tim Burton, Amelia Earhart
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'Heroes,' 'Who' Vet Takes Flight
Zap2It.comChristopher Eccleston will jump from an evil turn in "G.I. Joe" to a co-starring turn with Hilary Swank in "Amelia." The biopic of Amelia Earhart will be directed by Mira Nair for Avalon Pictures and Fox Searchlight. According to Variety, Eccleston will...Tags: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Amelia Earhart, Virginia
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Movies
PREMIUM CABLE "The Namesake" *** 7 p.m., Cinemax If you only know Kal Penn as stoner Kumar from the two "Harold & Kumar" movies or the nerdy Dr. Kutner on "House," you'll be pleasantly surprised by his work in this touching 2006 drama directed by...Tags: Alicia Witt, Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis, Movies
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Film directing is still a man's world
PATRICK GOLDSTEINAS Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stumbled during the last few months in the Democratic presidential race, a host of supporters have raised a hue and cry over sexism in coverage of the campaign. Clinton herself has complained about a "double standard"...Tags: Sofia Coppola, Gurinder Chadha, New Hampshire, Peter Bogdanovich, Sony Corp.
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Dazed & amused
From news servicesThere's apparently nothing John Cho and Kal Penn won't do for the sake of comedy. The stars of the 2004 stoner cult hit "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" are back in theaters this weekend with "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay." The sequel--...Tags: Neil Patrick Harris, George Bush, Television, Navy Pier, Ku Klux Klan
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City Living: Greenwich Village
Special to amNewYorkLongtime Greenwich Village residents lament the neighborhood's transformation from bohemian to bourgeois, but the '50s and '60s were far from the Village's grittiest era: Before there was Sing Sing, in the heart of Greenwich Village was Newgate Prison....Tags: Folk Music, New York University, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Medicine, Theater
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Madonna, Ritchie visit slums of Mumbai
Madonna visited a crowded Mumbai slum Tuesday, where impoverished residents showered her with rose and marigold petals. Madonna didn't speak to journalists, and a New York-based spokeswoman for the 49-year-old singer wasn't immediately available for...Tags: Guy Ritchie, New York, Madonna, Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp Will Make 'Public Enemies'
Zap2It.comWith a springtime gap in his schedule, Johnny Depp has signed on for Michael Mann's "Public Enemies." The period drama, one of many pre-actors strike projects revving up at Universal, focuses on the government's attempts to stop some of the most famous...Tags: Michael Mann, John Dillinger, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Movies, Tom Cruise
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Johnny Depp Drama Pushed Back by Strike
Zap2It.comAlready long delayed, the Johnny Depp vehicle "Shantaram" has been put on hold due to the writers strike. According to Variety, also going on hold is Rob Marshall's big screen version of the Tony-winning "Nine." Mira Nair was set to direct "Shantaram,"...Tags: Ron Howard, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem, Celebrity
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Hey, that ad-lib wasn't in the script!
Special to The TimesEverett Hitch and Virgil Cole had been riding all day, chasing bad guys across the chaparral in the western "Appaloosa." As actors Viggo Mortensen (who was playing Hitch) and Ed Harris (Cole) sat around a campfire filming a scene on the Galisteo, N.M.,...Tags: Ron Howard, Ed Harris, Sony Corp., Television, Daniel Craig
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