Catherine Bach's husband dies in apparent suicide (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles authorities contend the attorney-husband of actress Catherine Bach has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Coroner's office operations chief Craig Harvey says entertainment attorney Peter Lopez died Friday during his home in the Encino Hills. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter says the nearby resident reporting hearing the gunshot as well as someone during the home found Lopez's body.

A spokesman for Lopez's law firm says he was Michael Jackson's song attorney until the integrate of years prior to the cocktail star died.

Bach's publicist, Steve Rohr, says the Lopez family has suffered the "tragic personal loss."

Bach played Daisy Duke in the 1980s TV array "The Dukes of Hazzard." She as well as Lopez had two immature daughters.

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New film captures waning heyday of Chicago trading pits (Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The loud, colorful traders who shove for deals in Chicago's famous open-outcry pits right away face an even greater hazard than the advent of electronic dealing systems -- the algorithmic trade, says the executive of the brand new documentary charting the demise of building trading.

More the living wake than the eulogy, the movie "Floored" that debuted upon Friday recounts the transition from the bustling salad days of rugged alpha males to the marketplace dominated by faceless computer-based traders across the globe.

It's sink or swim for the maestro pit traders featured in the film, struggling to conform from the world of multicolored jackets as well as keen hand signals to executing trades with the series of keystrokes during home in the suburbs.

"The comparison guy, the man fundamentally similar to me who is not mechanism orientated, they're gone -- they have been out of the business," Joe Bedore, vice boss of building trade for INTL/FC Stone, told Reuters.

But it's not the last chapter, warns executive James Allen Smith, who traded mini-stock index futures electronically as well as spent the little time in the pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as well as the Chicago Board of Trade -- right away joined -- prior to he filmed the documentary over the three-year period.

"We talk about the building starting to the mouse. But obviously what's happened from there is the rodent is right away starting to completely programmed trading," Smith, 37, pronounced in an talk prior to his initial movie shows in slight release in Chicago, New York as well as Washington.

"Let's say five years ago we jumped off the building as well as proposed trade upon the computer, well right away we have been removing smoked by programmed systems. That's the subsequent chapter."

The number of floor ! traders< /span> has shrunk to just 1,000 compared to more than 10,000 during the 1990s, according to the film. Only about the third of all traders successfully have the transition from building to screen, the single maestro CBOT building merchant pronounced upon Friday.

"It just takes the all different kind of chairman to stay upon your feet as well as roar as well as yell all day in the brooding sourroundings than it does to lay patiently as well as sensitively in the room as well as click the mouse," Smith pronounced in an interview.

"You can't see any other in the eye, as well as that's what these guys were pros during -- they were masters during reading emotion."

For the little of the traders, the movie was the approach to safety the lost approach of hold up for the subsequent generation.

"The floors that were shown have been no longer there (at the former CME location) -- the owners chopped them up," Joseph Gibbons, the former building merchant who proposed in 1985 as well as right away trades financial futures from his home, pronounced during the screening. "This was the approach to get something done to show the kids."

(Reporting by Michael Hirtzer, Editing by Jonathan Leff)

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ESPN hands off to filmmakers, and they run with it (AP)

NEW YORK – ESPN's "30 for 30" sports documentary array is coming halftime with an upbeat spirit as well as movement upon a side.

The sports network launched "30 for 30" final Oct as a celebration of ESPN's 30th anniversary as well as as a bid to some-more deeply try memorable sports moments in a final thirty years. With a dozen drive-in theatre aired so far, it's additionally a clear incursion in to domain historically owned by HBO.

The most notable disproportion is a leisure ESPN has since a filmmakers. The formula might be a mixed bag, though they have all had a stamp of personal passion.

The array was spawned from a 2 a.m. e-mail sent to network higher-ups by ESPN.com's cocktail enlightenment as well as sports columnist Bill Simmons, additionally well known as "the Sportsguy." It's since grown in to a multimillion dollar operation as well as a drive-in theatre have played during a country's top festivals. Several "30 for 30" docs premiered during a Tribeca Film Festival, which concludes Sunday.

"My biggest contribution with this array was substantially convincing ESPN to let a people which you hired try their vision," says Simmons. "ESPN, in a past, has tried to control which process to a little degree. It's a lot of counting things down as well as things similar to that, which is a producer-controlled sort of thing. This was a lot some-more creative."

The array has captivated top documentary filmmakers similar to Steve James ("Hoop Dreams"), Alex Gibney ("Taxi to a Dark Side"), as well as Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter"), as well as Hollywood directors similar to Peter Berg as well as Barry Levinson.

The topics covered have ranged from a vicious (the implications of competition in! Allen I verson's journey) to a idiosyncratic (Reggie Miller's adversary with a New York Knicks).

Filmmakers concerned say they conclude a wire since to them.

"They've found a format for difference," says Gibney, whose documentary about scapegoats — Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman as well as former Red Sox initial baseman Bill Buckner — will air after this year.

"HBO has their format upon a sports drive-in theatre where they're all about different subjects though they're rigorously constructed with only a same style," Gibney says. "So you go in to a section — you feel, `OK, this is a HBO sports movie zone.' '30 for 30' is you do only a opposite. They're saying, `Each a single of these is starting to be wildly different.'"

Simmons, who co-created a array with Connor Schell, pronounced a single of a "major battles behind a scenes" was persuading ESPN, which is owned by Walt Disney Co., to relinquish a control. That alien viewpoint isn't regularly common upon a network with on-air bent populated by former players as well as ubiquitous managers, as well as which has report deals with most of a leagues it covers.

Keith Clinkscales, comparison clamp boss of ESPN calm development, which oversees ESPN Films, says a network has "learned along a way" how to handle a films.

"This array has shown us which a documentary movie does work for our audience," says Clinkscales. "We will continue to innovate after `30 for 30.'"

Ratings for a drive-in theatre have ranged from a 2.35 million which watched Billy Corben's "The U" (about a University of Miami's `80s football team) to 355,000 viewers for a fantasy sports documentary "Silly Little Game."

Some drive-in theatre are garnering considerable vicious acclaim, particularly "Two Escobars" by Jeff as well as Michael ! Zimbalis t. It not only screened during Tribeca, though will fool around during this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Simmons calls a movie — about a intersection of soccer as well as a drug traffic for Colombians Andres Escobar as well as Pablo Escobar — a single of a best sports documentaries each made.

"30 for 30" was regularly positioned as an antidote to HBO's sports documentaries, as well as a adversary has developed between a networks. Last year, Simmons pronounced he longed for to "destroy them."

On Wednesday, Ross Greenburg, boss of HBO Sports, told USA Today which he felt similar to Time Warner's HBO would "always own this category." He additionally compared HBO's sports documentaries to Michelangelo's David as well as ESPN's to "something you chipped out when you was 10."

Simmons calls those remarks "really arrogant."

"We've done nothing though shown apply oneself for HBO stuff," says Simmons. "We felt similar to there was a little domain there because their docs lend towards to askance older, though you regularly had apply oneself for those guys. It's only uncanny to me which somebody would be which threatened."

Ice Cube, whose "Straight Outta L.A." (airing May 11) looks during a tie between hip-hop as well as a NFL's Raiders, believes "letting us discuss it a stories which you want to tell, to me, that's what's making them so good."

"They should keep you do it," he says. "I would hatred for a 30th a single to fool around as well as that's it."

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'Mad World' actress Dorothy Provine dies at 75 (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Actress Dorothy Provine, most appropriate well known for her roles as Milton Berle's mother as well as Ethel Merman's daughter in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" as well as a high-kicking flapper in a 1960s TV series "The Roaring 20s," has died. She was 75.

Her father of 43 years, Robert Day, pronounced Friday which Provine died from emphysema upon April twenty-five at Silverdale's Hospice of Kitsap County, about 10 miles northwest of Bremerton. He pronounced there won't be a funeral.

"She was so beautiful," Day pronounced from his Bainbridge Island home in Washington

Provine's movie credits additionally embody "Bonnie Parker Story" as well as "Live Fast, Die Young" in 1958, "The thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock" as well as "Riot in Juvenile Prison" in 1959, "Good Neighbor Sam" in 1964, "That Darn Cat!" as well as "The Great Race" in 1965 as well as "Never a Dull Moment" in 1968.

Provine played leggy flapper Pinky Pinkham upon ABC-TV's "The Roaring 20s" from 1960 to 1962, as well as she appeared upon such shows as "77 Sunset Strip," "Hawaiian Eye," "Sugarfoot," "Wagon Train" as well as "Mike Hammer."

Besides her husband, Provine is survived by her son Robert Day as well as her sisters, Susan Cameron of Silverdale as well as Patricia Coldiron of California.

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Stephen King's "Dark Tower" in new hands (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot prolongation company, which has prolonged sought to moment Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" book array as a television series, no longer has a rights to a single of a author's greatest properties.

Bad Robot has returned a rights to a best-selling author. Now Ron Howard, Brian Grazer as well as Akiva Goldsman have been teaming up to tackle a fantasy Western.

The 3 have been in discussions to conform a material as a movie, to be created by Goldsman as well as directed by Howard, which would lead to a TV array produced by Imagine's small-screen division.

"Tower" is not set up for production, nor has any choice deal been made, though insiders contend Universal, home to Imagine, would be a college of music which will recover a movie.

That would be a contrast to a prophesy drawn up by Bad Robot, which had been eyeing a potential array as a reunion with "Lost" executive producers Damon Lindelof as well as Carlton Cuse. Because of a comprehensive nature of a project, a creators longed for to wait until "Lost" was over to give it their attention. When they satisfied they wouldn't be means to do an adaptation justice, they gave a rights back to King.

King's magnum opus, "Tower" encompasses not just a account about a Man in Black as well as Roland, a Gunslinger, which spans seven extensive books (and one reduced story), though additionally a entire universe of King's fiction. Characters from his alternative novels fly in as well as out of "Tower" in teenager as well as major ways.

Envisioned when King was still in his teenagers as his own take upon spaghetti Westerns as well as a world of Tolkien's "Lord of a Rings," "Tower" has spawned a array of graphic novels fr! om Marvel Comics, with a ultimate emanate attack shelves May 19. The property's expansive nature as well as approach tie to King's alternative works make it a single of a biggest, ripest franchise possibilities in entertainment.

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"Glee" star Agron cast in sci-fi movie "Four" (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Dianna Agron, a single of a stars of impassioned Fox array "Glee," has nabbed a womanlike regretful lead in "I Am Number Four," a big-screen adaptation of a arriving young-adult science-fiction book by James Frey as well as Jobie Hughes.

DreamWorks' "Four" revolves around a group of 9 aliens who transient their home world just before it was annihilated by a rival species. Hiding out upon Earth, a title character, to be played by British actress Alex Pettyfer, disguises himself as a tellurian high-schooler, only to find he's still being wanted by his planet's enemy.

Agron will fool around a lady dating a high school jock who falls for Number Four as well as becomes his confidante.

"Four" will be Agron's big-studio debut. The role in a high-pedigree movie -- Michael Bay is producing with Steven Spielberg, as well as D.J. Caruso is directing -- was rarely sought, as well as a studio went by several rounds of tests to find a right candidate.

Sharlto Copley ("District 9") is already upon board as Four's mentor, whilst Teresa Palmer is cast as Pettyfer's associate alien, Number Six.

Al Gough as well as Miles Millar wrote a screenplay. "Four" is scheduled to proceed principal photography subsequent month in Pittsburgh.

Agron is a ultimate actress to capitalize upon a overwhelming multimedia success of "Glee," that is winning a TV ratings as well as has a No. 1 album upon a Billboard charts. Fellow actress Cory Monteith has booked a supporting role in Fox 2000/New Regency feature "Monte Carlo," as well as Jayma Mays is playing Neil Patrick Harris' wife in "Smurfs."

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Jesse James says loss of son has broken his heart (AP)

NEW YORK – As Sandra Bullock files for divorce from father Jesse James as well as adopts son Louis as a single mom, James says he's left with "a outrageous hole in my heart."

But it would be greedy not to let her go, James said in a matter posted Wednesday upon People magazine's website.

James was responding to an interview with Bullock upon People's website in which she disclosed which she as well as her now-estranged father adopted a baby kid several months ago.

The Oscar-winning singer has given separate from James after revelations of his marital infidelity.

In his statement, James speaks of an unspecified addiction which he says has taken from him a kid as well as his wife. He calls them "two of a things we love a most in life."

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People: Bullock is divorcing James, adopting baby (AP)

NEW YORK – Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from her husband, Jesse James, as well as is taking advantage of a baby kid as a single parent.

"Yes, we have filed for divorce," a 45-year-old Oscar-winning singer pronounced in an interview with People magazine, posted Wednesday upon a website. "I'm sad as well as we am scared."

Bullock as well as James, 41, began a embracing a cause routine 4 years ago, a People article said, as well as brought 3 1/2-month-old Louis Bardo Bullock home in Jan though decided to keep a news to themselves until after a Academy Awards.

In a interview, Bullock pronounced she is savoring her new maternal status.

"You wake up, we feed, we burp, we play, we do laundry," she said. "I'm still in which theatre where I'm just vacant with him as well as during life."

"All we pronounced when we met him was, 'Oh, there we are.' It was similar to he had regularly been a partial of our lives."

The baby, called Louie, is declared after jazz great Louis Armstrong, who had particularly overwhelmed Bullock with his signature song, "What a Wonderful World," she said. The kid was innate in New Orleans, a city where Bullock as well as James had both spent time after Katrina.

Bullock pronounced she as well as James sought to pull no strings as they submitted to a typically time-consuming screening process, with no thoughts to a gender or background of a kid they competence receive.

"We somehow knew a right small person would come," she said.

Bullock pronounced she got a call which a baby competence be available for embracing a cause during what she described as "the media craziness of a awards season." Deciding to defense Louis from which turmoil, she kept his arrival hidden from all though a few trusted associates as well as ! loved on es. Her hold up (and his) became an ongoing routine of privacy as well as diversion.

"Just a doctors' visits were filled with decoys as well as dim cars," she said. "People which we had worked with for years couldn't understand why we wouldn't let them in to my residence for (Oscar ceremony gown) fittings."

James as well as Bullock distant in Mar after 5 years of marriage, following reports which a luminary motorcycle builder as well as reality-TV star had been unfaithful.

Bullock won a Oscar for best actress for her purpose in a blockbuster strike "The Blind Side," upon Mar 7. Within days of her win, a intrigue allegations became public as well as Bullock went in to seclusion.

It was a steep tumble from a intrigue resonating between them during a Golden Globes in January. Accepting her best singer award, Bullock told James from a stage, her voice cracking with emotion: "There's no surprise which my work got better when we met you. Because, we never knew what it felt similar to for someone to have my back."

After a revelations, James publicly apologized to Bullock as well as his children, Sunny, 6; Jesse Jr., 12; as well as Chandler, 15. He not long ago returned home after a 30-day stay in a treatment facility where he sought help for "personal issues," a People story said.

In a statement posted upon a People website, James called Bullock "the adore of my life, though deliberation a pain as well as extinction we have caused her, it would be greedy to not let her go."

He said, "The adore we have for Louis cannot be put to words. Not having him around to adore as well as to hold has left a outrageous hole in my heart."

He vowed to strike an vague obsession which he pronounced has taken from him "two of a things we adore a many in life."

When asked about either James had cheated, Bullock pronou! nced she "had no idea about anything."

"I did a usually thing we could do, as well as which was to pack enough clothes to live on, get all of Louis' things as well as get out of town. My main regard was Louis."

When asked either James will have any grave parenting role, she replied, "I will be taking advantage of as a single parent. Anything else will be taken day by day."

Of her attribute with James' three children, Bullock said, "I do not want to know what hold up is similar to without those kids. ... Whatever we need to do, in a healthiest way, we are starting to be co-parenting."

Looking forward to hold up without James, Bullock said, "I unequivocally do not know how our paths will intersect in a future, though a father we have known Jesse to be with all a kids is a single which we hope Louis can experience a single day, no matter how Jesse as well as we go upon with our lives."

News of a embracing a cause fast seized a attention of Bullock watchers as well as associate celebrities alike.

On Wednesday morning's "Live! With Regis as well as Kelly," horde Regis Philbin held up a copy of People magazine, which shows Bullock smiling during her baby son as she holds him aloft.

"It's not very easy to adopt a baby," Philbin said.

He's cute, chirped co-host Kelly Ripa.

"Lucky small guy, too," pronounced Philbin.

And upon ABC's "The View," co-host Joy Behar marveled which no one, "not a Pope, not Barbara Walters," had known about Bullock's baby.

"But we knew." Why didn't she say anything? "I forgot," Behar joked.

Many rallied to Bullock's defense upon Facebook. By midday Wednesday, some-more than 6,000 had clicked which they "liked" an earlier-formed group dubbed "Team Sandra Bullock!" ("Team Jesse James" had a most lower following of some 50 people upon a amicable network.)

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AP Entertainment Writers Carol Deegan as well as Jake Coyle contributed to this report.

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Prince Charles' environment film to air in U.S. (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Prince Charles, successor to a British throne, has made a film about meridian shift as well as attempts to find innovative solutions to global environmental problems which will be shown upon U.S. television.

U.S. network NBC pronounced upon Tuesday it would showcase a TV movie, called "Harmony", in Nov as well as described it as "an urgent, permitted as well as unsentimental call to action".

NBC pronounced a movie, as well as a companion radio special, grew out of three decades of work upon a issue of climate change by Prince Charles. It follows a king at work in Britain as well as abroad as well as features contributions from farmers, commercial operation as well as government leaders.

The plan also includes footage of Prince Charles interviewing former U.S. clamp president as well as Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore in 1988. Gore won a Nobel prize, along with an Oscar, for his 2006 tellurian warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

Charles, 61, a eldest son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, is an organic farmer as well as has prolonged campaigned upon environmental issues.

"Harmony" is expected to prominence his perspective which man has mislaid a once inherited bargain of how to live in harmony with a healthy world as well as inside of a limits.

The film as well as NBC special will be broadcast as part of a network's "Green is Universal" beginning in Nov 2010.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Carrie Bradshaw's a teen in new book (AP)

NEW YORK – Before she grew up as good as became a Manhattan icon, Carrie Bradshaw was a parochial Connecticut girl who dreamed of apropos a writer, done engaging conform choices as good as had a vanquish on a child named Sebastian Kydd who regularly kept her guessing.

"The Carrie Diaries," that came out Tuesday, is a prequel to "Sex as good as a City," focusing on Carrie's life as a 17-year-old.

"Sebastian Kydd...I guess he's a child version of Mr. Big," writer Candace Bushnell says with a laugh.

Like a adult Carrie, a 17-year-old version has a variety of friends as good as smart observations.

What a book doesn't have, though, are a sexcapades found in "Sex as good as a City." "The Carrie Diaries" is more, well, young adult.

"It unequivocally is about a 17-year-old ... as good as we positively remember when we was 17. we didn't have all a answers," says Bushnell. "I positively didn't know everything about sex."

Readers will learn what brought Carrie to New York City where she meets Samantha, Miranda as good as Charlotte.

A sequel to a prequel is expected subsequent year. Bushnell says she's already essay it as good as acknowledges it will be some-more mature.

"When we first changed to New York, it was eye-opening. ... She'll be in situations with adults and, we know, similar to a lot of young people you're terrified, you're fascinated as good as kind of horrified."

For those who can't wait for to know what's in store for a adult Carrie, "Sex as good as a City 2" hits theaters subsequent month.

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Robert Downey Jr. returns to superhero mode for "Iron Man 2" (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – As a kid, Robert Downey Jr. never ready to go up in superhero costumes.

"Growing up? No," says Downey Jr. "But in my mid-30s in Palm Springs right prior to an arrest? Yes. It was a premonition."

Although a singer is creation light of his past struggles with drug abuse, what is no joke is Downey Jr's success during resurrecting his behaving career after overcoming a long addiction to heroin as well as cocaine.

He made a overwhelming quip as Tony Stark, an arrogant, tough drinking, wisecracking seducer engineer who additionally wrestles with his own personal demons in 2008's large screen adaptation of a Marvel comic book series, "Iron Man."

Now, Downey Jr., 45, is at a back of in "Iron Man 2" along with plenty more action, characters as well as explosions. The movie opens in much of Europe, Asia as well as Australia this week prior to attack U.S. theaters upon May 7.

The parallels between Downey Jr. as well as Tony Stark were viewable in a original as well as have been only as clear in a sequel.

After 5 years of drug arrests culminating in a jail term in 2000, Downey Jr.'s return to Hollywood's A-list post- "Iron Man" -- together with a Golden Globe award for his purpose in "Sherlock Holmes" -- is not unlike Stark's own rise in status after he reveals his dual identity as a armored superhero.

"I think (Robert's own success) sensitive a level of fame as well as resurgence which Tony Stark experiences given he announces which he's Iron Man," executive Jon Favreau told reporters.

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In "Iron Man 2", Stark himself is no longer creation weapons -- only saving a world as well as enjoying his stone star status. Except now a U.S. supervision insists which he pa! lm over his superhero fit to a military. Stark refuses.

Favreau likened a supplement to someone throwing another celebration after a successful initial bash. "Iron Man" earned $585 million during worldwide box offices as well as a pressure was in creation certain "this was starting to be as fun or more fun than a last party," he said.

Putting together a supplement began shortly after a initial movie was released. With plenty of characters opposed for a calculable volume of screen time in a sequel, Favreau indispensable actors who could unequivocally "make an impression."

Gwyneth Paltrow is at a back of as Pepper Potts, who Stark promotes from partner to CEO of his Stark Industries. At a same time, Stark needs to solve a poser at a back of new character, Russian villain Ivan Vanko, played by Mickey Rourke.

Rounding out a new cast is Scarlett Johansson, sporting red hair as The Black Widow, as well as Sam Rockwell as weapons manufacturer Justin Hammer. Don Cheadle replaces Terrence Howard in a purpose of Lt. Col. James Rhodes.

Rourke was enlisted to play Vanko (a.k.a Whiplash) as he was coming off his own career resurgence with Golden Globe as well as BAFTA best singer awards last year for "The Wrestler."

To hope for for his role, Rourke took a trip to Russia, visited prisons there to assimilate how their complement worked as well as studied a art of jail tattoos. He additionally worked with a dialect coach to sense a Russian language.

Meanwhile Johansson went through months of stunt, weight, strength as well as continuation training. Yet a singer told Reuters Television she unequivocally wasn't rebuilt for how difficult it was to portray a "unwavering confidence" of a Black Widow.

"When a cameras! have be en rolling, you're meditative 'This girl can't flinch," pronounced a actress. "You suddenly turn overwhelmingly self-conscious. Overcoming which was a bit of an obstacle. After a initial take we say, 'Pull it together Johansson, you've got some ass to kick.' Then we only do it."

With this cast in place, Downey Jr. pronounced he "felt a small bit similar to a co-manager of a baseball group which only got an even better choice in a spring."

(Additional reporting by Phil Furey; Editing by Jill Serjeant)

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NYC seeks $300 levy on once-free film permits (AP)

NEW YORK – For a primary time ever, radio as good as movie productions that come from all over a world to fire in a city will have to pay for a City Hall permits that have continually been free, a major shift in process that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration department blames upon bill woes.

Senior Bloomberg administration department officials summoned member from Hollywood studios, promotion as good as labor unions upon Tuesday to discuss it them about a proposed $300 price for films, commercials, song videos as good as radio series.

To be sure, $300 is a barely noticeable bill line in many multimillion-dollar radio as good as screen projects, as good as many major cities — together with Los Angeles, New York's major movie competitor — already assign assent fees. But a shift is an about-face in process for a city that has long prided itself upon singly upon condition that giveaway permits as good as alternative perks to lure projects to fire in a iconic Big Apple.

Permits have been giveaway given a city determined a movie bureau in 1966.

"At this theatre with these unprecedented budget cuts, you have no alternative choice," pronounced Katherine Oliver, government official of a Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre as good as Broadcasting. "We think this is a most appropriate approach to go in this environment to address a cuts you have been facing."

The city will have a comment duration upon a price offer as good as afterwards schedule a public hearing.

The price expected would lift less than $1 million a year, though still significant to a movie as good as radio office's relatively small $2 million budget. The city's bill is about $60 billion.

The assign would be compulsory once for every movie, blurb or song video shoot, no make a difference how many days a prol! ongation was operative in a city, as good as once a season for radio projects.

John Johnston, executive executive of a New York Production Alliance, a traffic group that represents thousands of people employed in a movie as good as radio industry, attended a assembly as good as pronounced he wasn't surprised a city was attaching a price to permits.

He pronounced it wasn't expected to dissuade high-budget underline films, though pronounced he was concerned about a effect upon not as big projects.

"Any cost that's total to filming in New York is a detriment, troublesome to business," he said.

The city pronounced it would waive a primary price if a low-budget prolongation could demonstrate "unreasonable hardship."

New York requires a assent for any fire that uses vehicles or equipment alternative than hand-held devices as good as cameras upon tripods — items such as props, sets, lights, dolly tracks, screens as good as microphone devices. In some situations, a assent additionally is needed if a prolongation wants exclusive make use of of city property.

About 3,050 filming applications that would be theme to a price were submitted to a city final year. Additional permits a city grants to productions — for special locations, for e.g. — would remain free.

The city still plans to keep upon condition that prolongation freebies such as parking, travel closures as good as police officers upon set for no charge. Los Angeles, where a movie assent costs $625 for dual weeks of shooting, charges fees for those services as well.

New York additionally provides millions of dollars in giveaway promotion to promote projects shot here.

Brooke Kennedy, executive producer upon a CBS play "The Good Wife," that shoots in New York, pronounced a assent price in a! low hun dreds of dollars was a dump in a bucket as good as not expected to transcend a perks given to productions.

"It's income good spent," pronounced Kennedy, who has more than 25 years of knowledge shooting in a city. "You get so much here."

City agencies have undergone 7 budget cuts in a past 2 1/2 years as Bloomberg has tried to change a bill as good as overpass multibillion-dollar deficits among a recession. Agency heads have been destined to not usually trim costs though additionally to demeanour for ways to lift extra cash.

Fees have already left up for permits to theatre movie premieres as good as red-carpet events that interrupt travel as good as path traffic. Last year, a city raised a cost for permits to movie in metropolitan buildings together with courthouses as good as City Hall.

Rising costs come as a Bloomberg administration department has outlayed years trying to undo New York's reputation of being a difficult as good as dear location for movie as good as radio shoots. The industry is a $5 billion-a-year business in New York, employing more than 100,000 people.

Several years ago, officials noticed they were losing movie projects to alternative cities that gave tax credits to productions; projects continually faked classic New York scenes upon prosy civic streets in cities like Toronto, avoiding New York.

In 2005, a city instituted a 5 percent taxation credit that, when total with a 30 percent state taxation credit, helped revive a industry as good as draw productions, together with a ABC sitcom "Ugly Betty" as good as a drive-in theatre "Spider-Man 3" as good as "The Nanny Diaries."

Shooting days, that is how a city measures a illness of a industry, went up to a tall of 34,718 in 2006, compared with 19,309 in 2003. They have slipped slightly in new years, to 27,251 in 2008.

The income for a taxation credit ran out final year, as good as a offer to renew it is being cons! idered i n Albany.

Some of a final big projects to take advantage of a credit have been major cinema coming out this year such as a Jerry Bruckheimer film "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," starring Nicolas Cage, along with a "Wall Street" sequel as good as "Sex as good as a City 2."

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Rwanda president takes stage at Tribeca Film Fest (AP)

NEW YORK – The tall thin man strode to a stage during a Tribeca Film Festival as well as fielded a few questions about one of a main subjects of a documentary only screened — himself: Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

The president's star spin Monday night before a stylish crowd in reduce Manhattan was less surprising deliberation it was a universe premiere of a documentary that portrays Kagame, who is up for re-election in August, in a drastic light. After a 88-minute film, "Earth Made of Glass," ended, filmgoers welcomed him with a station ovation.

"When we wish reconciliation as well as probity during a same time, they lend towards to conflict," he replied to one question. "That's what happens every day in a country."

Kagame additionally affianced to go upon auxiliary with his nation's former sworn enemy, Congo. The dual nations teamed up for a joint operation final year opposite a extremist Rwandan Hutu rebels who fled to eastern Congo, after Kagame's rebel army ended a 1994 genocide.

Rwanda has, together with neighbor Uganda, twice invaded Congo — in 1994 as well as 1998. During each advance Rwanda pronounced it was chasing down a Rwandan militias. The second advance sparked a five-year, six-nation war in Congo that killed some 3 million people.

Recently, Congo President Joseph Kabila told a United Nations he wants a universe body to start withdrawing all peacekeeping troops, forward of Kabila's re-election bid next year. Back-to-back wars shook Congo from 1996 to 2002, sketch in half a dozen African nations. Kabila's government, however, has given struggled to assert its control in a east as well as has had worry office building in effect institutions as well as integrating former fighters into a inhabitant army.

"I wish a Congolese ! a best f or their country," Kagame said. "We have been trying to work with a Congolese. ... We have been starting to go upon operative together in a segment to have peace, not only for Rwanda though for Congo as well, as well as for a rest of a region."

Kagame's Tutsi rebels defeated a Hutu extremists after a 1994 violent death in which half a million people, mostly Tutsis as well as moderate Hutus, died. Critics of his supervision argue, however, that a statute party has used a concept of violent death ideology to disprove detractors as well as defeat political opponents.

For years, Kagame has sparred with France over an alleged French purpose in a genocide, with Rwanda's supervision as well as violent death survivor organizations often accusing France of precision as well as defending a Hutu militias as well as former supervision infantry who led a genocide.

In 1998, a French parliamentary panel absolved France of responsibility in a slaughter. But in February, Nicolas Sarkozy became a initial French president to visit Rwanda given a violent death as well as pronounced those responsible for a killings should be found as well as punished, together with any who competence be residing in France.

Filmmaker Deborah Scranton's documentary prominently adopts a view of Kagame's 2008 report into what she calls "the French government's hidden complicity" in a genocide.

Also interwoven into a movie is a gripping story of how 47-year-old Jean Pierre Sagahutu, a fixer for general news media organizations, tracked down a villagers who years earlier had permitted his father, a physician, to be killed as well as buried exposed in a margin beside a road block, simply for being an ethnic Tutsi.

Sagahutu, who takes his children along upon parts of a journey, exposing them to a difficulties of balancing probity with assent as well as forgiveness, additionally was upon hand for a film's pr! emiere.< /p>

The movie grew out of a chance cooking review dual years ago in between Scranton as well as Kagame, who she pronounced had "inspired within me as well as my whole organisation an implausible vision of a trail to assent that we consider a universe could take a lesson from."

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Jameson says UFC star Ortiz "lashed out" at her (AP)

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Mixed martial arts star Tito Ortiz was arrested upon suspicion of made during home assault Monday during a home he shares with his longtime partner, former adult movie singer Jenna Jameson.

Police Lt. Mike Reynolds pronounced Ortiz, a former UFC light heavyweight champion, was taken to a Huntington Beach prison as well as was released after posting $25,000 bail.

Reynolds pronounced police can't make an arrest upon suspicion of made during home assault unless there's a "visible injury," as well as a unnamed victim's injuries met which standard. Reynolds wouldn't elaborate, observant only which Ortiz as well as a victim have been "extremely cooperative."

Jameson as well as her father spoke to TMZ.com as well as other reporters outside a home Monday. Wearing a hang upon her right elbow, Jameson described herself as "completely shocked" by a incident, observant Ortiz had "lashed out" during her, leaving her feeling "betrayed."

The 35-year-old Ortiz is between a most flashy as well as renouned fighters in MMA history. He was a UFC's light heavyweight champion from 2000 to 2003 during a formative years of a sport's widespread promotion, creation five title defenses before losing his leather belt to Randy Couture.

Ortiz, whose nickname is a Huntington Beach Bad Boy, is a former collegiate wrestler has been competing in MMA given 1997. He has been in a attribute with Jameson given 2006, as well as she gave birth to identical tiwn boys in Mar 2009.

After his career declined among multiform damage problems, together with vital behind surgery, Ortiz left a UFC in 2008 in a sour dispute with president Dana White, his former manager.

Ortiz re-signed with a UFC final year, losing a separate preference to Forrest Griffin in his! return quarrel final November. Ortiz is winless in his final four UFC fights given Oct 2006, with his celebrity as well as high-profile attribute with Jameson overshadowing his octagon abilities.

Ortiz served as a manager upon a most new deteriorate of "The Ultimate Fighter," a UFC's renouned reality radio uncover currently airing upon Spike. Yet he apparently was forced to drop out of a uncover during its taping progressing this year, as well as a UFC already has voiced it will reinstate him with Rich Franklin for a show's traditional season-ending bout with associate manager Chuck Liddell.

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