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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: Steve Jobs, Sundance Film Festival, Identity Thief (movie), Ted (movie), Cannes Film Festival
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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: Environmental Issues, Sports, Oakland Athletics, Sears Holdings Corp., Brad Pitt
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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: Friends (tv program), Go On (tv program), The Voice (tv program), Entertainment, Radio
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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: Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Dev Patel, News Agency, The Newsroom (tv program)
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Susan Bahorich's Blog
Comments, questions, concerns, story ideas, etc. email me at: sbahorich@wdbj7.com
5/5/13
You may have seen or heard my promo.
I have cancer.
The story airs Monday night at 6o'clock.
This is a little weird for me.
I'm not used to "being" the...Tags: Politics, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Swine Flu, Autism, Arts and Culture
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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: Politics, Henry Kissinger, Spain, Netflix Inc., Jeffrey Tambor
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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: Ashton Kutcher, Media Industry, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Steve Jobs, Arts and Culture
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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, Sports, Jorge Garcia, Entertainment, Steve Jobs
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Sorkin talk fest is no fun
If you ask a smart, talented, prolific, highly opinionated and possibly overextended writer to create a series for you whenever he gets the chance, you might get a terrific television show. Or you might get "The Newsroom," which is what HBO got when it...
Tags: Bradley Whitford, The West Wing (tv program), Emily Mortimer, Arts and Culture, Dev Patel
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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: Candice Bergen, Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, Brookings Institution, Same-Sex Marriage
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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: Ashton Kutcher, Lost (tv program), Justin Long, Bill Gates, Jorge Garcia
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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: Fox News Channel (tv network), Mad Men (tv program), MSNBC (tv network), Aneurysm, January Jones
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