News

Jun
11 2001

Miramax settles suit over "O"

By: Guylaine Cadorette
11:40am EDT
Inside.com reports that Miramax has paid the producers of O about $1 million to settle a complaint alleging the studio breached its distribution agreement by failing to release the film before March 17. Miramax co-chairmen Robert and Harvey...
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Jun
11 2001

AMC tries season tickets to the movies

By: Guylaine Cadorette
11:39am EDT
AMC Entertainment, Inc. is conducting trials on season tickets that would allow moviegoers to see up to one movie a day for a flat monthly fee. The Movie Watcher Premium Card, which is now being tested in Omaha and Oklahoma City, is part of a...
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Jun
11 2001

Murray opens restaurant

By: Guylaine Cadorette
11:39am EDT
Bill Murray and his five brothers have opened a golf-themed restaurant at The World of Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla., the Associated Press reports. Murray starred in the 1980 golf comedy Caddyshack and played a greens keeper obsessed with a...
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Jun
11 2001

Lizard bites Stone's husband

By: Guylaine Cadorette
11:37am EDT
A 10-foot Komodo dragon bit the foot of Phil Bronstein, Sharon Stone's husband, at a Los Angeles zoo on Saturday, Reuters reports. Bronstein, the executive editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, was visiting the zoo with Stone when the accident...
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Jun
10 2001

"Survivor" played out in the Senate?

By: Kit Bowen
1:20pm EDT
Now that would be a show to watch. However, in this case, it's just software publisher Michael Skupin, the poor "Survivor" contestant who had to be flown out of the Australian Outback when he badly burnt his hands, who may run for the U.S...
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Jun
10 2001

Spacey just ordinary folk

By: Kit Bowen
1:19pm EDT
When actor Kevin Spacey set out for Trinity, Newfoundland to shoot his next film, The Shipping News, a $29 million film adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer prize-winning novel, he brought five security guards. By the end of the week, he...
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Jun
10 2001

Writers say 'keep the sex'

By: Kit Bowen
1:15pm EDT
Academy Award-winning screenwriter and novelist, John Irving (The Cider House Rules) vehemently supports a writer's right to be as graphic as need be to tell a story. According to Associated Press reports, Irving says children do not need to be...
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Jun
10 2001

J. Lo chapel-bound?

By: Kit Bowen
1:14pm EDT
Perhaps singer-actress Jennifer Lopez will be doing a cover of the '60s ditty "Chapel of Love"--for her own wedding. Tabloids, including the New York Post and Britain's The Sun, are reporting that Lopez's dancer boyfriend Cris Judd asked the...
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Jun
10 2001

Duchovny: grammar guru

By: Kit Bowen
12:03pm EDT
David Duchovny takes his punctuation seriously. He claims that an improperly placed comma made him miss a question on a celebrity edition of ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On the show, Duchovny, who once pursued a doctorate in literature...
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Jun
10 2001

Anthony Quinn remembered

By: Kit Bowen
12:00pm EDT
Actor Anthony Quinn, who died June 3 of respiratory failure at 86, was honored and remembered by friends and family Saturday. About 300 people attended the public service in Providence, Rhode Island, where still shots from Quinn's 100 movies and...
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Jun
10 2001

The Anniversary Party Review

By: Stacie Hougland
9:51am EDT
Novelist Joe and actress Sally (Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh who wrote and directed) are having a party to celebrate the fact that they've completed six years together despite a recent separation resulting in wounds that haven't quite...
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Jun
09 2001

Quote of the Day: David Duchovny

By: Leigh Johnson
10:29am EDT
David Duchovny to Reuters, on his role in the upcoming Evolution being somewhat similar to his X-Files persona, Agent Mulder. "I know that when they (the producers, not the aliens) ask who can save the world, they say 'Duchovny.' But I...
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Jun
09 2001

Role Call: Zeta-Jones goes home

By: Kit Bowen
9:11am EDT
All the glamorous Catherine Zeta-Jones has to do is tap her heels three times and, just like that, she's returning to her humble homeland of Wales to do the independent film Coming Out. Under the direction of another Welshwoman, Sara Sugarman...
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