World News
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:50:56 -0700
Thousands flee as volcano erupts after 400 years - Today, 09:28 - PA Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more...
'Housewives' reunion looks explosive
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:19:41 -0700
The second season finale of " The Real Housewives of New Jersey " may have aired last Monday, but tonight, Bravo unveils Part 1 of their two-episode reunion, filmed in Atlantic City in early August.
Fake goods are fine, says EU study
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:29:29 -0700
A new European Union-funded report has declared that buying designer goods can benefit consumers and the companies whose brands are being ripped off.
Globetrotting
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:20:04 -0700
Traveling through Europe and playing music for part of the summer is a good gig if you can get it. Two Glasgow High School band students were able to do just that earlier this year.
For Your Consideration: Assessing Oscar In The Calm Before The Storm
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:59:57 -0700
It's been almost six months since indieWIRE's coverage of the mammoth 2009-2010 awards season came to an end. This "For Your Consideration" column has laid dormant ever since, its most recent edition a near year-in-advance stab at what might become of the next awards season. But with the potential awards contender-heavy Venice Film Festival kicking off in just one week, and Toronto a week after ...
Spike Lee tells about post-Katrina woes, triumphs
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:34:04 -0700
The director's two-part, four-hour documentary about New Orleans and the Gulf coast debuts tonight on HBO.
On Pope St. Pius X
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:22:58 -0700
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 18, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today during the general audience held at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
Tax swoop gives yachties that sinking feeling
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:23:20 -0700
ROME: An army of tax inspectors is about to hit Italy's finest resorts and marinas in a campaign against tax evasion.
Suso Cecchi D'Amico: Screenwriter for De Sica and Visconti who also worked with Wyler, Zeffirelli and Jarman
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:58:39 -0700
Suso Cecchi D'Amico was Italy's most illustrious screenwriter; she contributed to classic films such as Bicycle Thieves and The Leopard, and collaborated with some of Italy's most distinguished directors, among them Antonioni, De Sica and Monicelli. She had a particularly rewarding association with Luchino Visconti, for whom she was a major scriptwriter on almost all his films from Bellissima ...
Hollywood Gossip!
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:43:02 -0700
The rapper - who recently recorded a duet with the star entitled Love the Way You Lie has a crush on the Barbados-born singer. Eminem's grandmother Betty Kresin who thinks they would make a great couple told Heat magazine: "I can totally see what any girl including Rihanna would see in him.
'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:47:12 -0700
With King of New York and Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara was the chronicler of New York at its grittiest. But what happens when that city no longer exists? Compromise is not an option, he tells Andrew Purcell Of all the great New York movie directors, none has captured the city's nervous energy better than Abel Ferrara. But while Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese have become establishment figures ...
Suso Cecchi D'Amico dies at 96; screenwriter worked with some of Italy's leading directors
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:46:40 -0700
She emerged from the male-dominated postwar Italian cinema to contribute to such milestone films as 'Bicycle Thieves' and 'The Leopard.' Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated postwar Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestone films as "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard," has died. She was 96.
People in the News
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:26:18 -0700
The former prostitute who made headlines for her 1995 encounter with Hugh Grant has publicly thanked the actor for "changing" her life - because she carved a "wonderful" new existence after the scandal. Grant was shamed when he was arrested in Los Angeles with Hollywood hooker Divine Brown, and she went on to land a series of lucrative publicity deals to talk about her experience with the Nine ...
Movies | Stakes high for Affleck as 'Town' director, star
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:25:48 -0700
LOS ANGELES - In the glory days of the 1990s, Ben Affleck and his friend Matt Damon, a couple of struggling actors, startled Hollywood by writing brilliantly conceived roles for themselves in a screenplay called Good Will Hunting and picking up an Oscar for their effort.
