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Cannes: Top French Filmmaker Olivier Assayas to Make First U.S. Film
ReutersMay 22 (TheWrap.com) - Olivier Assayas will direct "Hubris"-- the first time the award-winning French filmmaker will make a movie in the U.S., producers CG Cinema, Bluegrass Film, Emjag Productions and Film360 announced on Wednesday. Assayas directed...Tags: Movies, Management (movie), Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment
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'Go On' Canceled by NBC
ReutersMay 10 (TheWrap.com) - NBC has canceled the Matthew Perry sitcom "Go On." The series, which starred Perry as a sports talk radio host who joins a grief support group following the death of his wife, premiered last September (after a special preview the...Tags: Go On (tv program), Radio, Lorne Michaels, Friends (tv program), NBC (tv network)
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'The Newsroom: The Complete First Season'
Much as producer-writer Aaron Sorkin used the White House as a platform to address various issues on "The West Wing," so he does with a fictional cable news network in this superbly acted HBO drama series. Jeff Daniels has what could prove to be his...Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), News Agency, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Dev Patel
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'Alpha' leads Amazon's pilot pack
Not content to just sell us books, lawn implements, baseball bats, printers, devices to read books on, bar tools, printer paper, used printers, ink cartridges, used ink cartridges and automobile floor mats — did I miss anything? — Amazon is...
Tags: Netflix Inc., Satellite and Cable Service, Emma Stone, Entertainment, Kevin Sussman
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Steve Jobs' approach a lesson for Broadway's 'Motown'
In 2011, Nick Bilton of The New York Times asked Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, an interesting question: "Did he try to control what you wrote in the book?" "I anticipated that," Isaacson replied. "But he didn't. He kept surprising me by...
Tags: Lawyers, The New York Times, Media Industry, Diana Ross, Cirque du Soleil
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Comedic website Funny or Die releases 78-minute Steve Jobs biopic
Funny or Die says iSteve, its first full-length feature film, was written in three days, mostly based on Wikipedia articles, and shot in five days. No wonder the website isn't expecting any film awards. The Steve Jobs biopic roughly--and we may be...
Tags: Justin Long, Movies, Sports, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Steve Jobs
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The wisdom of Dan Quayle
Almost exactly 20 years ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." In case you forgot (or never knew), let me fill you in on what Mr. Quayle was right about. There once was a popular sitcom...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Marriage, The Washington Post, Same-Sex Marriage, Candice Bergen
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The first Steve Jobs biopic? It's a parody by Funny or Die
The first Steve Jobs movie will premiere next month, but it's not the film anyone expected. Funny or Die will release a parody biopic titled "iSteve" on April 15 on the Internet. It'll be the first of three movies based on the late Apple co-founder to...
Tags: Justin Long, Apple iPhone, Movies, The New York Times, Michaela Watkins
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What does hate-watching mean?
Anne Hathaway — insufferable, grating, insistently chipper, with those big stupid puppy-dog eyes and that dumb pixie hair, shocked, shocked, at the fortune and appreciation bestowed on her talented head, so rehearsed in her faux-humility, so...
Tags: Taylor Swift, Golden Globe Awards, Netflix Inc., Zooey Deschanel, Lollapalooza
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From the baseball diamond to the boardroom
The Harvard University economics grad who upended centuries of baseball thinking, bringing his computer and fresh statistical formulas into the Oakland A's war room, is going to help Sears find out if it has game. Translating Major League Baseball...Tags: Chicago White Sox, Brad Pitt, Environmental Issues, Baseball, Billy Beane
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The secrets to Tina Fey's '30 Rock' success
On Sept. 18, 2006, NBC debuted a highly anticipated series from one of TV's hottest writers, taking viewers behind-the-scenes of a variety show with more than a passing resemblance to “Saturday Night Live.” It was Aaron Sorkin's “...
Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Jerry Seinfeld, TV Land (tv network), Lucille Ball, Jennifer Aniston
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Hillary leaves office stronger than ever
When Hillary Clinton went to Capitol Hill last week, Republicans opened their bags of overly ripe conspiracy theories and moldering fruitcake ideas and tossed everything at her. Every shot missed. Republican senators and congressmen on the foreign...
Tags: David Horsey, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of State, Politics, Ron Johnson
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