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HAVING previously destroyed all the major cities in an alien invasion and plunged the globe back into the Ice Age , director Roland Emmerich goes one better in 2012 by trying to wipe out the entire human race.

The exalted transfiguration of Sarah Palin from Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate to bona fide glamgrrrl celebrity was made official this week with the publication of her memoir, Going Rogue , and the launch of her national book tour yesterday at a bookstore in Grand Rapids, Mich.

The 79-year-old railed against "teenage twits" Updated 12:52 PM EST, Tue, Nov 17, 2009 Clint Eastwood has morphed into a curmudgeonly old-timer: He thinks the world is made up of good-for-nothing "teenage twits" and isn't even interested in chasing women anymore.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has presented U.S. actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood with the Legion of Honor medal for his contribution to cinema.

Here at Londonist, we don't show you enough stuff exploding / 2012, image courtesy of Columbia Pictures Our weekly round-up of film reviews Like, OMG! The White House is flattened by an aircraft carrier that's totally been washed in by a tsunami! California falls into the sea! That statue in Rio massively falls over! 2012 has Roland Emmerich ...

Britain is broken, according to the slogan, perhaps beyond repair. Knife crime has become shockingly commonplace.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented the 79-year-old actor and director with the decoration, honoring his body of work, his longevity and his ability to delight audiences around the globe, according to the award citation.

OVER the past couple of years, OAPs Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood and Sly Stallone have all returned as action heroes.

Kyle Eastwood just finished composing a film score for his father, Clint Eastwood's, film 'Invictus,' to be released in December.

French actress Cecile De France has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's Hereafter , which will star Matt Damon.

In his first major film, 'A Fistful of Dollars,' Clint Eastwood emerged as an enigma, a character simply known as The Man With No Name.

Hi, Jamie! You play piano, guitar, bass and drums. Ever wish you were an octopus so you could play everything at once? You don't need more arms.

Hal Holbrook continues his late-career renaissance, begun so vividly with his Oscar-nominated turn in "Into the Wild," with this elegiac drama about an octogenarian who still has a lot of fight left in him.

Palo Alto Online Movies There's plenty of Best Picture buzz these days about "Slumdog Millionaire," director Danny Boyle's tale of an unlikely game-show champion in Mumbai.

Last book read: The Butt by Will Self. Last film seen: AI by Stanley Kubrick on the telly last night.

Westminster Presbyterian Church of DeKalb invites community members who like “movies with a message” to view and discuss “Gran Torino” at 6 p.m. Sunday.

It's that time of year again - you know, when Clint Eastwood releases a trailer for a movie that looks fascinating and completely different from the last thing he did, and your trio of reactions run something like this: 1) Hmmm, Clint's got a movie coming out - didn't we just see - Gran Torino' five minutes ago? 2) Hmmm, it's got Morgan Freeman ...

One of the biggest unknowns of the fall movie season, not to mention the Oscars, has finally shown its face.

After last year's misanthropic manifesto, Gran Torino , the last thing you'd expect from Clint Eastwood is a movie soaked in the milk of human goodness.A But that's just what he's done with Invictus , his new movie based on the true story about how Nelson Mandela recruited the captain of the South African rugby team to integrate the team and unite ...

Among the panelists scheduled to speak today at a forum on Asian gangs was a young man set to discuss how gang violence had affected his family.