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George Clooney Lends Star Power to Earthquake-Damaged City

9 July 2009 3:35 PM, PDT

George Clooney's next project will allow him to be an actor and humanitarian at the same time. On Thursday, the Oscar-winning star visited L'Aquila, Italy - a city hit by an earthquake in April that killed more than 300 people - and told reporters he plans to help boost the region's economy by shooting a movie there and "draw[ing] attention to this tragedy." "We'll shoot a film here at the end of September, in which I will act," he said, though he didn't name the film. "I think this is the best way to lend a hand and boost the economy.

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Eunice Oh

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George Clooney to Pull an Italian Job for Earthquake Victims

9 July 2009 3:19 PM, PDT

George Clooney is in a rebuilding period. While touring L'Aquila, capital of the central Italian region of Abruzzo, where a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on April 6 killed nearly 300 people and left upwards of 65,000 homeless, the Oscar winner announced that he plans to come back soon to shoot part of his next movie in hopes of boosting the economy in the medieval fortress town. "We'll shoot a film here at the end of September, in which I will act," he told reporters Thursday. "We're here to draw attention to this tragedy." Clooney didn't mention the name of the movie, (more)

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LL Cool J Reveals What's Hot About the New NCIS

9 July 2009 3:53 PM, PDT

NCIS: Los Angeles</i>" style="margin:0 5px 5px" />Starting Sept. 22, NCIS fans will double their pleasure when CBS' high-rated procedural is followed by the series premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles. The much-heralded spin-off concerns the L.A.-based Office of Special Projects and its own team of Special Agents, led by Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J. Here, the man who famously rapped about "Going Back to Cali" reveals how he landed in Los Angeles this TV season.

TVGuide.com: That was quite a performance you gave at the CBS upfronts. [LL Cool J surprised the crowd with a rousing (more)

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Pelosi On Proposed Measure: Beat It!

9 July 2009 2:59 PM, PDT

House Speaker says it would open up "contrary views" about singer's life.

By Amy Kaufman

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday shot down a resolution to honor Michael Jackson, saying that the proposed measure could raise supposed "contrary views" about the King of Pop's life and legacy.

 

Lawmakers still have the freedom, however, to use House speeches "to express their sympathy or their praise any time that they wish," Pelosi said. 

 

"A resolution, I think, would open up contrary views...that are not necessary at this time to be expressed," Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday.

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Cemetery Junction Teaser Online

9 July 2009 10:09 AM, PDT

Filming may have just started on Cemetery Junction, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s first feature film together, but the prodigious writing/directing duo have already produced the movie’s first teaser.Well, ok, it doesn’t actually feature any footage from the movie, given that it’s just Gervais, Merchant and a special guest star banging on about their eagerly-anticipated comedy drama, but it’s utterly hilarious.But enough of our prattling on – click here to go to rickygervais.com and check out the teaser featuring our introduction to one of the world’s funniest comedic actors, ‘Chuckles’.As for the film itself, it stars Christian Cooke (more)

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Lay Off Lindsay Lohan for Turning Down The Hangover

9 July 2009 4:12 PM, PDT

As expected, the tabloids are currently ripping into Lindsey Lohan, implying that she's an idiot for turning down The Hangover. Hindsight is 20/20 and actors turn down golden opportunities all the time. But this is a situation where Lohan's choice wasn't all that inexplicable, and may have been beneficial (more)

Scott Mendelson

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‘Harry Potter’ Brings Tom Felton to New York And Kristen Bell Talk Movies In Today’s Twitter-Wood

9 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT

With any luck, Tom Felton&#8217;s Twitter application of choice will follow him over the border into the United States as he heads to the New York premiere for &#8220;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.&#8221; He posted another pic in the Twitter-Wood feed today to announce that he is heading (more)

Brian Warmoth

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D.J. Cassidy Celebrates His Birthday with Music's Biggest Names

9 July 2009 4:04 PM, PDT

It’s My Party, I Can Wear a Red Tux If I Want To. D.J. Cassidy. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “Warm it up!&#8221; rapper Doug E. Fresh bellowed into the microphone as D.J. Ruckus filled the halls of the New York Public Library with deafening jams. Fresh was just one of the (more)

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Raja Gosnell directing Smurfs

9 July 2009 12:57 AM, PDT

Raja Gosnell is the man that Sony wants in charge of its live-action/animation blended Smurf pic. We can sort of understand their choice – he has a lot of experience working with movies that mix real people and animated characters. It’s just a shame that the experience mostly consists (more)

James White

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The Defiled's "Fiercely Indie" Blow-by-blow

8 July 2009 7:25 AM, PDT

Filmmaker Julian Grant, who is a tenure-track film professor at Columbia College, Chicago, is making a "fiercely independent" ultra-low-budget, dialogue-less horror film entitled The Defiled, and he's reporting a very detailed blow-by-blow of its production on his blog. He describes the film as " a story of love and (more)

Scott Macaulay

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