News

Jun
28 2001

Stossel: parents were brainwashed

By: Lew Irwin
10:48am EDT
ABC News commentator John Stossel said Wednesday that he is not happy that network higher-ups ordered that interviews he conducted with children for a Friday-night special be deleted. Nevertheless, appearing on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly...
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Jun
28 2001

CBS denies gun incident at "Survivor" site

By: Lew Irwin
10:48am EDT
A CBS spokesman has denied reports that security guards working for the Survivor series in Kenya held a group of local environmental activists at gunpoint before allowing them to meet with the show's producers. Chris Ender told Thursday's New York...
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Jun
28 2001

Disney animators chide studio chiefs

By: Lew Irwin
10:48am EDT
A number of Disney animators are expressing strong dissatisfaction with the direction of the studio since the departure of Jeffrey Katzenberg and his replacement by Tom Schumacher, with several saying that the current emphasis has gone from...
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Jun
28 2001

"Apes" hunters upset with directions

By: Lew Irwin
10:47am EDT
Internet users participating in a Planet of the Apes scavenger hunt conceived by 20th Century Fox have been unable to turn up one item that was hidden by the studio in a park in Monrovia, Calif., last week, the Wall Street Journal reported...
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Jun
28 2001

Shooting Gallery is shot down

By: Lew Irwin
10:47am EDT
Only a day after a spokesman for Itemus, the Toronto-based company that took over New York's Shooting Gallery last month, denied a trade report that it is planning to shut down the film company, it shut it down. Employees received email notices...
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Jun
28 2001

Eminem settles mother's lawsuit

By: Erika Gimenes
10:02am EDT
Some of the controversy surrounding Eminem is finally dying down--at least for now. A Macomb County, Mich., judge has denied a request by Eminem's mother, Debbie Mathers-Nelson, to reconsider a settlement in the lawsuit that she filed against...
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Jun
28 2001

SAG takes hard line on strikebreakers

By: Guylaine Cadorette
8:08am EDT
The Screen Actor Guild has banned eight Hollywood actors from joining the union after they crossed picket lines against advertisers last year, Variety reports. This brings the total number of actors who have been banned to 39, including 11 who were...
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Jun
28 2001
Kirsten Dunst, to Hollywood.com, on how alcoholic scenes were cut from crazy/beautiful to get a PG-13 rating: "They can look like they're drunk and they can hold a bottle of alcohol, but they can't sip from it ... to get the rating. So I don't...
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Jun
28 2001

Comedian Paula Poundstone arrested

By: Hollywood.com Staff
6:22am EDT
Santa Monica police arrested comedian Paula Poundstone on Wednesday at an undisclosed Malibu location, on a felony warrant that charges her with lewd acts upon a child and child abuse, authorities said. Poundstone, 41, is charged with three counts...
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Jun
27 2001

Baby Boy Review

By: Kit Bowen
2:29pm EDT
Jody is a jobless but highly charismatic young man who has not only fathered two children by different women--Yvette (Taraji Henson) and Peanut (Tamara LaSeon Bass)--but still lives with his own mother Juanita (A.J. Johnson). He wants to be with...
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Jun
27 2001

Sheen pleads guilty to trespassing

By: Hollywood.com Staff
12:26pm EDT
Actor Martin Sheen pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal trespassing charge for demonstrating at Vandenberg Air Force Base in October against a space-based missile shield proposal. Sheen, who entered his plea to the misdemeanor charge before U...
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Jun
27 2001

Quote of the Day: Reubens on porn moniker

By: Guylaine Cadorette
11:42am EDT
Paul Reubens, who built his career as Pee-Wee Herman on the hit Saturday morning TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, to Entertainment Weekly on his idea of a good name for a porn star: "I'd probably just use my own name."
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Jun
27 2001

Quote of the Day: Lewinsky on being single

By: Jason Alcorn
11:42am EDT
Monica Lewinsky, one of Manhattan File magazine's 100 most eligible New York bachelorettes, to Entertainment Tonight on the joys of being single in the Big Apple--and sex is not one of them: "I like the freedom of being able to do what I want...
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