The glitzy red carpet premieres, the expensive suits, gowns, jewellery and the over the top hair dos. It is all glam and dazzle when aspiring hotshot movie directors hit play on the Sony DVD player (yes, only the best) that signals the release of yet another ‘made in Uganda’ movie.
Behind these scenes, are hundreds of [...]

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A small flick went from refugee camp to red carpet Friday as Sean Penn, backed by rock star Bono and film-maker Michael Moore, brought an Australian aid worker’s tsunami film to the Cannes fest.
Politically-minded Penn won special agreement from the Cannes festival organisers for a special one-off red-carpet screening of “The Third Wave”, a film [...]

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Actor Ashton Kutcher attended the London world premiere of his new movie “What Happens In Vegas” without costar Cameron Diaz. The actress was missing from the Tuesday night premiere due to the death of her father.
Cameron’s father, Emilio Diaz, died suddenly from pneumonia in Southern California last week at the age of 58. According to [...]

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Picking up golf balls at a golf club in Fort McMurray.2. What’s on your iPod?Bryan Adams, Tom Cochrane, The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.3. What’s the last good movie you saw?Into The Wild.4. If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing?I’d be working in real estate, probably as a land [...]

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Picking up golf balls at a golf club in Fort McMurray.2. What’s on your iPod?Bryan Adams, Tom Cochrane, The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.3. What’s the last good movie you saw?Into The Wild.4. If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing?I’d be working in real estate, probably as a land [...]

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LOS ANGELES Gary Busey has apologized for embracing Jennifer Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month. During a live E! pre-show broadcast, Busey repeatedly interrupted while Ryan Seacrest was interviewing Garner and Laura Linney. At one point, Busey embraced Garner, who looked annoyed.
“I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garner when [...]

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To meet Francine’s demands, Arvilla sets out from Idaho with friends Margene (Kathy Bates) and Carol (Joan Allen), on a road trip in a ‘66 Bonneville convertible, taking the 50-something gal pals on the ride of their lives.
“I loved the idea of working with Kathy and Jessica, women I really admire, and it was a [...]

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AND THE EARLY ARRIVAL AWARD GOES TO: A little more than four hours before curtain time, those gathered in the bleachers along the Oscar show’s red carpet finally had a few things to cheer about.
First, the sun peeked out from behind the clouds, putting an end to the day’s driving rain. Then Regis [...]

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“I get a bigger fear of what kind of world she’s going to live in. Is she going to run out of water? What kind of water is she going to drink?” the 41-year-old actress and producer said on her way into the party. “It’s really scary and it’s not that far away if [...]

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The 45-year-old faux pundit hosted the Oscars two years ago, so he knows what to expect. Still, it’s “disorienting” to work in Los Angeles rather than in his native New York.
“In New York I have windows,” he says. “It’s an away game, and since I mostly play home games, it’s unusual.”
So why [...]

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