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  • Curtis Lavelle Vance avoids death penalty for murder of Arkansas TV personality Anne Pressly

    11/12/09 A jury sentenced a man convicted in the beating death of a popular Arkansas television personality to life in prison Thursday, sparing him the death penalty after hearing testimony about his rocky upbringing by an abusive, drug-addicted mother.  |  New York Daily News - New York NY
  • AICN Legends: Capone swims in shark-infested waters and climbs Devil's Tower to talk to Richard Dreyfuss!!!

    11/04/09 My third AICN Legends piece is the first to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.  |  Ain't It Cool News
  • Movie a Stone's throw away

    10/28/09 AS we left off yesterday I was auditing an Upper East Side townhouse scene.  |  Page Six
  • Damon, Brolin in 'True Grit' talks

    10/26/09 Matt Damon is in discussions to star in Ethan and Joel Coen's remake of "True Grit." Josh Brolin, who starred in the brothers' "No Country for Old Men," is also in talks for a major role.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Shelf Life: Natural Born Killers

    10/08/09 That of course isn't to say it's not still an incendiary classic, but in retrospect, Oliver Stone 's treatise on media savagery feels like both a product of its time and a random blitz of imagery that has since dulled our perceptions of (and reactions to) the film's overall effect.  |  Cinematical.com
  • Pink: The World's Most Underrated Superstar

    10/06/09 She is a fabulously fearless pop artist, as comfortable taking on George W. Bush as she is hanging like a bat from the rafters of Radio City. She is clever and funny and unflinching, willing to take her (oft volatile) personal life and turn it into grist for hit singles.  |  MTV
  • Biopics bring peril, pitfalls

    10/01/09 When Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider said in May that DreamWorks planned to make a biopic on Martin Luther King Jr., it took less than 24 hours for the project to hit a speed bump.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Lefty stars all flock to 'si' Chavez

    09/24/09 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a warm Hollywood embrace this week at the New York premiere of an Oliver Stone documentary featuring the South American heavy.  |  New York Post - New York NY
  • In NYC, Hugo Chavez & Evo Morales Hype Oliver Stone’s Latest

    09/24/09 Security last night was apparent - no liquids of any kind allowed in the theater - though none of the bag searches or metal detectors usually present at such an event were in sight (enezuela's equivalent to the Secret Service moved about the theater and backstage for safety checks).  |  indieWIRE
  • Film fest-producer conflict of interest?

    09/19/09 International film festivals have often provided a platform for projects developed in their own training programs or backed by inhouse funds, but the Zurich Film Festival is sure to raise some eyebrows by preeming a pic produced by its toppers.  |  Variety