A League of Their Own News

People passing by the Market Street entrance to Commercial Alley on Monday were politely asked to keep on walking or at least not linger or stare.

Here it is, folks: a chance to be in the movies without leaving the comforts of home.

The Indiana screenwriter who penned hit movies "Rudy" and "Hoosiers" wants to film much of his new project, a film about the history of the Indianapolis 500, in Newton County, provided a film tax credit remains in the state budget.

Jane Jacobs Badini, 85, was a star pitcher in the Racine Bells All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940's. She is holding a baseball signed by the cast of "A League of Their Own," a movie about the league.

When John Kovach began putting the word out five years ago that he was assembling an exhibition on women's baseball, the standard reaction was confusion, he said, followed by a mumbled endorsement of the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own," starring Geena Davis and Madonna.

Actress and U.S. TV personality ROSIE O'DONNELL is set to add radio presenter to her impressive resume after landing her own satellite show.

U.S. comedian Rosie O'Donnell will return to the U.S. talk show format but this time with her own morning satellite radio show.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California to Amos Mefferd Hanks, a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln and Janet Marylyn Frayer, a hospital worker.

Milwaukee will be the primary location for a feature film starring Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn to be shot by a Chicago-area production company this summer.

Dottie Hinson: It just got too hard. Jimmy Dugan: It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

Randy Skinner, who received a 2009 Tony nomination for Best Choreography for Irving Berlin's White Christmas , will direct and choreograph a Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hart's 1937 musical Babes in Arms .

Addressing Bates College graduates in Lewiston, Maine, Davis says that "society can only benefit if women are at the table." The founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media told the graduates on Sunday that studies show kids are seeing "a very unbalanced world," with three male characters for every one female.

"Tank Girl" star Lori Petty was charged with drunken driving on Friday after she hit a skateboarder while driving a car, authorities said.

The Southern California woman who gave birth to the world's longest-surviving set of octuplets has signed a deal to star in a reality television series, her lawyer said Sunday.

'Tank Girl' Tanked In Venice 1-Jun-2009 Written by: Susie K. "Tank Girl" was arrested for driving while tanked.

Lori Petty was arrested Saturday night for felony DUI after allegedly hitting a skateboarder with her car.

Lori Petty was arrested Saturday night for felony DUI after allegedly hitting a skateboarder with her car.

The answer to yesterday's Name That Movie is He Got Game . Corey Fram answered correctly.

Every film festival yields an unexpected treat and this year's Tribeca Film Festival is no exception.

Reality: It's a lot easier and more fun than most of the careers and businesses you can do.