Garofalo says she tires of teens
NEW YORK (AP) - Janeane Garofalo said she would have made a great camp counselor - as long as she didn't have to work with teen-agers. The actress and comedian plays the uptight camp director in "Wet Hot American Summer," a spoof of early '80s sex comedies. "After a while, the conversation tends to ...
| Ben Affleck goes bottle blond
NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Affleck didn't bleach his hair just to have more fun. The dark-haired, 28-year-old actor went blond earlier this month for a project he's planning with his younger brother, Casey, and friend Matt Damon - a movie spoofing boy bands like 'N Sync. "I dyed my hair for photo tests," Affleck ...
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Fans to celebrate Potter's birthday
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Warner Bros. is encouraging fans to celebrate the birthday of fictional wizard-child Harry Potter. The studio has set up an electronic birthday card on its Web site for the upcoming movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," based on the first of the best-selling children's books ...
| 'Tron' redux in full swing
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two decades after it introduced computer-generated imagery to feature films in "Tron," the Walt Disney Co. is reviving the heroic security system with a new video game and a 20th anniversary DVD, in addition to the previously reported theatrical sequel, tentatively ...
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Pitt, Aniston buy home
BEVERLY HILLS (AP) - Newlyweds Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have bought a $13.5 million home with some Hollywood history. The 12,000-square-foot, six-bedroom Beverly Hills house was built in the 1930s for Fredric March, Academy Award-winning actor for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 1932 and "The Best ...
| Late Anthony Quinn honored at gala
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The late Oscar-winning actor Anthony Quinn was honored posthumously by family and former co-stars at a film festival gala. Quinn, who died from respiratory failure in June, was honored with the Gabriel Figueroa Lifetime Achievement Award at the fifth annual Los Angeles Latino International ...
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'Planet of the Apes' is No. 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) - 'Planet of the Apes' emerged as the 800-pound gorilla at the weekend box office in North America, breaking several records in the process. The simian saga, billed by director Tim Burton as a "re-imagination" of the 1968 sci-fi classic, opened at No. 1 with a three-day sum of $69.6 ...
| Lion gets chance at love
TORONTO (AP) - He's a veteran actor who was too busy making films, television shows and commercials to learn the ways of love. Now terminally ill, he is trying to make up for lost time by making time. If that sounds implausible, consider that the thespian is Bongo, a 14-year-old lion who starred in ...
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Disney prepping 2nd 'Country Bears' installment
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With "The Country Bears" still a year away from release, Disney has hired "Bears" scribe Paul Rugg to write a sequel. The first "Bears" movie, inspired by the Country Bear Jamboree park attraction at Disneyland, is in postproduction and slated for a summer 2002 release. ...
| Gilpin talks about 'Final Fantasy'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Peri Gilpin would like to be as buff as Jane Proudfoot, the character she voices in the new film, "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". Gilpin told AP Radio that when she saw her computer-created character, she thought, "Why can't I look like that? I think she's a really good actress, ...
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Rodriguez wants to write screenplay
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michelle Rodriguez, one of the stars of "The Fast and the Furious", also would like to work behind the cameras. "I really don't feel that for the rest of my life...I'm going to be satisfied just being an actress," Rodriguez told reporters. She made her film debut in last year's "Girlfight." ...
| Miramax attached to Soderbergh's next project
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Miramax Films has finalized the deal to distribute Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh's next feature film project, "How to Survive a Hotel Room Fire". The previously untitled project is being produced by Scott Kramer and written by Coleman Hough. There is no cast on board ...
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Almodovar film upsets animal rights activists
MADRID (Hollywood Reporter) - Pedro Almodovar's film "Speak To Her" became embroiled in a debate on animal rights when Animal Amnesty, a Spanish activist group, said Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against the Oscar-winning director and his production company, El Deseo, for bullfighting scenes ...
| Andie MacDowell getting married
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star Andie MacDowell is getting married to a childhood friend. MacDowell, 43, accepted an engagement ring last week from Rhett Hartzog, 43, an Atlanta jewelry businessman. Marion McBride, father of the bride-to-be, said his daughter plans to marry ...
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Nicole Kidman to star in 'Dogville'
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Nicole Kidman will star in Lars von Trier's next movie, the Danish director's production company said Thursday, three days after it announced it had called off negotiations with the Australian actress. Kidman will play the female role in von Trier's next film project, "Dogville," ...
| Katharine Hepburn home from hospital
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Actress Katharine Hepburn was discharged from Hartford Hospital Thursday morning after a week's stay for a minor infection. Hepburn was released just after 10 a.m. and returned to her home in Old Saybrook, hospital spokesman James Battaglio said. The four-time Academy Award winner ...
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Jason Priestley finishes counseling
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jason Priestley has completed an alcohol counseling program he was ordered to attend when he pleaded no contest last year to a drunken driving charge. Priestley's lawyer Peter L. Knecht showed proof in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday that the former star of "Beverly Hills, ...
| Hanks, Hanson elected to board
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Academy Award-winners Tom Hanks and "L.A. Confidential" director Curtis Hanson have been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences board of governors. Three governors represent each of the Academy's traditional 13 branches and are elected to staggered terms so that ...
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Hepburn expected to leave hospital
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - After spending a week in Hartford Hospital for treatment of a urinary tract infection, Katharine Hepburn is expected to sent home by this weekend, a hospital spokesman said Wednesday. Earlier this week, the hospital said the infection had been taken care of, but doctors were working ...
| Singer Eminem to shoot movie
DETROIT (AP) - Eminem helped put Detroit's rap scene on the map. Now, he's putting it on the silver screen. A drama loosely based on Marshall Mathers III's experience as a suburban Detroit hip-hop singer who became a superstar, temporarily named "Untitled Detroit Project," will begin shooting in and ...
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