Archive for August, 2010



Summer movie-ticket sales fall 6 percent from 2009 (Reuters)

Tuesday 31 August 2010 @ 11:08 pm

Reuters - Summer 2010 won’t set a box-office high, and fewer tickets have been sold than in any swimsuit season in more than a decade.

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“Everybody Loves Whales” except Ted Danson (Reuters)

Tuesday 31 August 2010 @ 11:08 pm

Reuters - Noted Hollywood environmentalist Ted Danson will play a win-at-all-costs oilman in a rare foray into feature work.

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“Gone With the Wind” fans give gowns another day (Reuters)

Tuesday 31 August 2010 @ 11:08 pm

The Green Curtain Dress (the Portieres Dress) worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone With The Wind' is seen in this undated handout picture. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which acquires and preserves cultural materials, launched a public appeal earlier this month to raise $30,000 to restore five dresses worn by Leigh in the Oscar-winning film 'Gone with the Wind'. To match Reuters-Life! FILM-GOWNS/    REUTERS/Harry Ransom Center/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSReuters - Fans of “Gone with the Wind” obviously do give a damn about Scarlett O’Hara’s extravagant dresses with a museum appeal for funds to restore gowns from the 1939 movie meeting its target in three weeks.


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George Clooney off-target in “The American” (Reuters)

Tuesday 31 August 2010 @ 7:08 pm

Reuters - Back in the 1970s, a film like “The American” would be labeled existential. Today it feels merely pointless.

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Michael Douglas optimistic about cancer recovery (AP)

Tuesday 31 August 2010 @ 5:08 pm

AP - Michael Douglas says he’s begun treatment for throat cancer and that his odds of recovery are high.

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