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Acclaimed filmmakers Griffin Dunne and Gary Winick will be featured speakers on Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic crossing from Southampton to New York, Nov.

AN ACTRESS who used to live in Hallaton has made her small screen debut with a lead role in a BBC children's programme.

She appeared in such awful films as 1999's The Bachelor , 2001's Glitter , 2002's Wisegirls , and 2008's Tennessee , among others.

Stills for the upcoming film Shorts, directed by Robert Rodriguez, which will be the first feature to be produced with the Imagenation Abu Dhabi banner: Imagenation has now added film makers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald to its caste of collaborators.

After all, this way too up-close and way too personal look at a couple of Canadian metalheads closing in on 50 and still clinging to their golden-god dreams is both sadly tragic and oddly inspiring.

As the fall festival season swings into full gear with the opening of the Toronto Film Festival, Venice humming along and Telluride wrapping, another festival is heading into the home stretch on the Normandy shores here in Deauville, France.

Over at Thompson on Hollywood , blogmeister Anne Thompson has some advice for Renee Zellweger, whose career has sailed slowly into the doldrums so often encountered by actresses of a certain age.

Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as "The Two Mrs.

Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing , 1989. Spike Lee's seminal film Do the Right Thing takes place over the course of twenty-four hours during the hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn's historic Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

ALMOST FAMOUS. Cameron Crowe's rapturously entertaining picture, based on recollections of his own experience, centers on a nerdy high school senior who lands an unbelievably cool job as a rock journalist in 1973 and goes on a cross-country tour with a band.

ALMOST FAMOUS. Cameron Crowe's rapturously entertaining picture, based on recollections of his own experience, centers on a nerdy high school senior who lands an unbelievably cool job as a rock journalist in 1973 and goes on a cross-country tour with a band.

Famous person Denise Richards told Globe magazine she likes to get her poke on with male friends in hotels - with no strings attached of course.'You don't want to bring them home to your house, but I have certain needs,' said Richards.

'Holy shit!' someone says. The black SUV with tinted windows pulls over near the corner of Stuyvesant and Lexington Avenues, depositing a familiar five-foot-six disruption to this quiet Brooklyn block's space-time continuum.

Joe Estevez , the younger brother of famous Hollywood actor Martin Sheen and uncle of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, is in downtown Bay City today filming a new movie, though most of the details are being kept under wraps.

Blogging will be sporadic, with gusts to non-existent, over the next two weeks. In my absence, please just assume that Mike Duffy continues to publicly demonstrate with his every word and action his complete and utter independence as a member of the upper chamber.

Joey Chestnut won this year's Nathan's Famous International July Fourth Hot-Dog Eating Contest.

Rosie Perez, left, and Spike Lee, who also directed, star in "Do the Right Thing." 4 stars = Outstanding Ratings explained Two decades ago, director Spike Lee managed to capture lightning in a bottle with his third major studio release "Do the Right Thing." Always bigger on ideas than he is on subtlety, Lee refused to back down from an ...

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

'Do the Right Thing" - the Spike Lee joint that kick-started some tough conversations about racism and prompted boomboxes across the country to blast "Fight the Power" - celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with new releases on DVD and Blu-ray, both of which feature digitally remastered versions of the film, perfectly polished for the new ...

It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can do the right thing.