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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