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/ 17 November 2007
Striking United States screenwriters and major film and TV studios agreed on Friday to resume formal contract talks on November 26. The announcement of new talks came hours after the strike claimed its first big-screen casualty, with production of the follow-up to the box-office hit The Da Vinci Code.
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/ 17 November 2007
In the first big-screen casualty of the Hollywood writers strike, Columbia Pictures said on Friday it had postponed production on Angels & Demons, a prequel to its box-office hit The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks. The Sony-owned film distributor said the planned release date for the thriller has been pushed back to 2009.
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/ 1 November 2007
With hours to go before their contract was set to expire, Hollywood screenwriters and studios deadlocked on Wednesday in talks aimed at averting the first major strike against the film and TV industry in 20 years. It was unclear what would happen next, but leaders of the Writers Guild of America have ruled out declaring an immediate walkout.
A sobbing Paris Hilton was ordered back to jail on Friday as a judge overruled a sheriff’s decision to place the hotel heiress under house arrest for psychological problems after she spent three days behind bars. The slender 26-year-old celebrity trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody.
His pompadoured henchman, Silvio Dante, is barely breathing and full of holes; his brother-in-law Bobby is dead and Tony Soprano himself is left in a darkened bedroom, clutching a machine-gun. Even his therapist has dropped him as a patient after being convinced that ”the talking cure” doesn’t work on sociopaths.
A judge sentenced a shocked and tearful Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail on Friday, ruling that the hotel heiress violated her probation for a previous traffic offence by knowingly driving without a valid licence. Hilton wept and her mother, Kathy, yelled at the prosecutor, ”You’re pathetic,” as the packed courtroom cleared.
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/ 7 February 2007
Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as I Believe, Jezebel and the theme to the TV Western Rawhide, died on Tuesday at 93. Laine died of a heart attack after hip-replacement surgery at the Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego.
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/ 1 February 2007
It’s hard to imagine a sequel to a movie like Oscar-nominated crime drama The Departed, which ends in such a spasm of violence that hardly any of the lead characters are left alive. But almost anything is possible in Hollywood when enough money is at stake.
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/ 10 November 2006
Veteran CBS newsman Ed Bradley, a pioneering black American journalist who won acclaim as a Vietnam War correspondent and later as a reporter for ”60 Minutes,” died on Thursday of complications from leukemia. He was 65. Bradley, whose illness was not widely known, had just begun his 26th year as one of the team of reporters featured on the landmark CBS News magazine show.
A spokesperson for Madonna on Wednesday denied claims by officials in Malawi that the pop star had adopted a one-year-old orphan boy there. Spokesperson Liz Rosenberg called the report ”completely inaccurate” but said Madonna was not bothered by it because it would draw attention to the problems of children in the impoverished African nation.