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Sergio Iacomoni in his gladiator gear. Carmine Flamminio for The National Sergio Iacomoni, chief gladiator trainer in Rome I was born in 1952 in the medieval town of Viterbo, north of Rome, so I have Etruscan blood, rich in history.

Acclaimed actress Angela Bassett has been associated with her screen presence for years, whether it's from her stunning, Oscar-nominated portrayal as Tina Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It" and Emmy-nominated lead in the television movie, "The Rosa Parks Story," to her duty as Dr.

SANDRA Bullock says it was only after she'd shot a rare nude scene in her latest film, The Proposal, that she suddenly realised it would get all the attention.

Just when you thought it was safe, or at least worth the effort to go back to the movies, Hollywood chucks another worthless pile at unsuspecting audiences.

"The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein" by Peter Ackroyd; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday British author Peter Ackroyd, a one-man encyclopedia of British history, language and culture, has written 31 books of fiction, biography, cultural criticism and poetry, many of them prizewinners.

Model Petra Nemcova arrives at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Party in Stud House, Hampton Court on June 7, 2008 Richmond upon Thames, London, England.

More Set Photos from Ridley Scott's still untitled Robin Hood flick have surfaced online and as you can see from these images it still looks like a "Robin Hood" movie.A In a recent interview on Australian television, Crowe said that the 1991 Kevin Costner film, "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" was "like watching an extended Jon Bon Jovi video ...

The French-Algerian thriller Z arrived in the United States at the end of a decade marred by political assassinations .

Images Cinema will present selections from "Eyes on the Prize" on Mondays, Oct. 26, Nov.

The Hollywood star Sandra Bullock is facing a nasty legal battle as her husband's ex-wife launches a custody fight America's sweetheart, the actress Sandra Bullock, is being dragged into an unpleasant legal battle to prove that she is a better parent than her husband's former wife, the star of more than 100 pornographic movies.

In a lively conversation with Scott Simon for the public TV series Backstage With ..., Tom Hanks took on the perils - and pleasures - of fame.

History took center stage in the University Union's Potomac Lounge on Thursday evening as Rory Kennedy and Ilyasah Shabazz spoke to a capacity crowd of nearly 500 students, faculty, staff and community members.

Nick Hornby's screenplay for new film An Education is the "girls' version of Fever Pitch", he has said.

The revival of David Mamet's 1992 Oleanna in current production at the Golden Theater stars one of my favorite actors Bill Pullman whose elastic face and frenetic movements are on full display in this theatrical pas de deux with the patrician, cool Julia Stiles.

We've seen our share of musicians over the countless years try their hand at acting, because they have the #1 single or album or both.

Thanks to Louie Pastore , an expert in medieval and Scottish martial arts, we've learned that he'll be involved as part of a fight team for scenes being filmed at a Scottish castle for HBO's pilot episode of Game of Thrones .

Natalie Portman perches on a stool at the counter of a vegan restaurant in downtown Manhattan, nibbling on a soy-cheese sandwich and minding her own business.

Russell Crowe is no stranger to performing his own stunts, but the "Gladiator" star was involved in his own real-life fender-bender Wednesday afternoon.

IMAGES Penny Marshall with Cindy Williams in an episode of Laverne and [Credits : Lifetime Television/PRNewsFoto/AP Images] Main American actress and director original name Carole Penny Marscharelli born Oct.

Karen Sala alleged she had a sexual relationship with Keanu Reeves and said she believed he was the father of one or more of her four children.

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated Oct. 14, 2009 PITTSBURGH - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com Russell Crowe is no stranger to performing his own stunts, but the "Gladiator" star was involved in his own real-life fender-bender Wednesday afternoon.

The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

A few months ago, Jeffery Kissoon and director Paul Morris were in a gym talking about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King when one young man piped up: "Don't worry about them anymore, we've got Obama". The statement left Kissoon shocked and ultimately sparked his decision to bring The Meeting back, a play that brings Malcolm and Luther King together ...

Nick Hornby, whose pop-culture-savvy novels and memoirs have been translated well and less well into gently acerbic onscreen romantic comedies, has in "Juliet, Naked" written a deceptively breezy novel about a truly vexing question: What do you do with the suspicion that you've wasted most of your adult life? Duncan, a college professor, and Annie, ...

Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 2:27 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 2:27 p.m. Abraham Lincoln visited New York City only five times in his life, and only once as president, yet the growing 19th-century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image.

EVER since her very public split from Brad Pitt in 2005, there's been a special place in the gossip columns reserved for speculation about Jennifer Aniston's love life.

Paranormal Activity is pants-wetting, tear-producing, shrieking scary! Not sure which movie to see this week in theaters? Let me help you out.

Ask 411 Movies for 10.05.09: The Worst is Yet to Come! Posted by Leonard Hayhurst on 10.05.2009 Odd celebrity deaths, the first double DVD and more bad movies with Alien Dead, North, The Room, My Giant, Color of Night and more! It's October and in honor this month's YouTube theme will be old Halloween themed commercials.

A chance encounter in Kent inspired a film producer to create a documentary about the life and works of Charles Dickens.

PODCAST: Nick Hornby reads from Juliet, Naked at the Coolidge [MP3] 0 If you ever happen to find yourself in England and you run into a neurotic middle-aged Londoner, a kid who asks strings of naive questions, and a music nerd who defines himself by his favorite band, then youa ve probably stumbled into a Nick Hornby novel.

One of the highlights of the unjustly unpopular Grindhouse was Edgar Wright 's 'Don't!,' a fake trailer for the sort of faintly musty British horror film that tottered into theaters in the early 1970s.

Badasses list is great, but the movie villains list is teh suck. They left off three of the very best movie villains of all time.

HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY

By Audrey Niffenegger

Scribner.

406 pp. $26.99

More than a month before Halloween, the most sophisticated horror stories are already crawling out of the ground. You think you're safe over there in the primly maintained Literary Fiction section of the cemetery, peering across the rusty gate at Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' (Nov. 10), Anne Rice's 'Angel Time' (Oct. 27) and even a sequel to 'Dracula' written by -- please, no! -- Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew (Oct. 13). But meanwhile your genteel old friends have already been hideously transformed: Sarah Waters leads this bone-chilling pack with a Jamesean ghost story called 'The Little Stranger,' which has a good shot at winning the Booker Prize next week. Dan Chaon's 'Await Your Reply' pays homage to everybody from Peter Straub to H.P. Lovecraft, and Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' has been re-stitched by such non-horror writers as Peter Ackroyd and Laurie Sheck. In short, there's nowhere to hide this year from frighteningly smart, scary novels.

I can do the laundry at my own house and I think nothing of throwing in a load. "The truth is I'm perfectly fine around the house.

Dennis Hopper is "feeling better" after being treated at a hospital in New York City for flu-like symptoms on Wednesday.

But in The Boys Are Back, which expands to more theaters Friday, the suave Brit, who turns 45 on Saturday, reveals his tender side in a rare father role.

Midhurst-based Knockhundred Shuttles were dancing on the red carpet in London's Leicester Square on Thursday after being chosen to perform at the national premiere of the film Morris a ' A Life With Bells On.