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Jul
23 2001

'Barbarella' Director Dead of Cancer

By: Ellen Kim
9:52am EDT
Filmmaker Roger Vadim, best known for discovering Brigitte Bardot and keeping company with the likes of Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve, died today of cancer. He was 72. The Paris-born Vadim was married to the then-teenage Bardot when he made...
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Jul
23 2001

'Green Card' Guy Out of Hospital

By: Steve Ryfle
9:52am EDT
French actor Gerard Depardieu has undergone a successful heart bypass operation after suffering chest pains during a film shoot. Depardieu, 51, was treated at Foch Hospital near Paris, and there were no complications, his agent told Reuters. ...
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Jul
22 2001

Box Office Analysis: July 15

By: Martin Grove
11:39am EDT
MGM's Legally Blonde had the most fun at this weekend's box office, winning a record setting $20 million-plus verdict from moviegoers. The PG-13 comedy's opening -- MGM's third number one launch this year after Hannibal and Heartbreakers --...
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Jul
22 2001

Jackson 5 reunion concert doubtful

By: Erika Gimenes
10:59am EDT
Michael Jackson's Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration, The Solo Years might not include a Jackson 5 reunion after all. Two members, Jermaine and Randie, have dropped out of the reunion show on Friday after complaining of "exorbitant...
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Jul
22 2001

Disney in negotiations to buy Fox Family

By: Erika Gimenes
7:15am EDT
The Walt Disney Co. is in negotiations to buy Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., a set of children's cable channels, for $3.3 billion from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. and Saban Entertainment, sources told Reuters on Saturday. According to Reuters...
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Jul
22 2001

"Sopranos" honored by critics

By: Erika Gimenes
7:09am EDT
The HBO series The Sopranos was named program of the year by the Television Critics Association Saturday, The Associated Press reports. The series will compete with NBC's The West Wing for the best drama award at the Emmy Awards ceremony on...
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Jul
20 2001

Katharine Hepburn in recovery

By: Noah Davis
1:54pm EDT
Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, recovering from a urinary tract infection, will likely leave hospital this weekend, The Associated Press reported Friday. Hepburn, 94, has spent two nights in the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., where...
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Jul
20 2001

By the Numbers: Box Office Preview July 20

By: Robert Sims
1:36pm EDT
From an artistic standpoint, it's easy to understand why Steven Spielberg declined to undertake a third trip to Jurassic Park. He already let loose T-Rex on an unsuspecting San Diego at the end of 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park. What...
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Jul
20 2001

U.K. viewers flock to "Brother" Web site

By: Lew Irwin
1:22pm EDT
While the U.S. version of Big Brother continues to produce only mediocre ratings, and while traffic to the show's Web site has plunged following the initiation of a subscriber fee, the current British version is drawing big audiences not only for...
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Jul
20 2001
A Bollywood production costing $6 million, exorbitant by Indian standards, is attracting huge crowds in London, assuring its success as the first "crossover" film to appeal to western tastes, the Times of India reported Monday. Lagaan, about a...
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Jul
20 2001
A poll of British audiences ranked noisy candy wrappers as the most disturbing element in theaters, far surpassing such other distractions as ringing cell phones, whispered conversations, late-comers, and "obnoxious Americans." Nearly 80 percent of...
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Jul
20 2001

British media stocks take a dive

By: Lew Irwin
1:22pm EDT
Amid increasingly gloomy forecasts for ad-supported media, shares in the British ITV company Carlton Communications dropped to an eight-year low Thursday while shares in cable companies NTL and Telewest hit all-time lows. In an interview with...
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Jul
20 2001
Paramount has agreed to remove several scenes from the British release of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in order to gain a 12 rating (suitable for 12-year-olds and older). the British Board of Film Classification, the U.K.'s official ratings board, said...
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