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Is there a reason why really great novels seldom make great movies? OK, let's back up a bit.

By MICHAEL GRANBERRY They uttered two of the most famous lines in movie history, and now you can ask them about that or whatever else.

Crazy Heart, the directorial debut of Scott Cooper , finds Bridges as an ex-country singer/songwriting legend Bad Blake who is on the brink of losing everything to drink, cigarettes and a lack of passion to play music before a new relationship sparks with a much younger, clear-minded, single mum journalist .

Read Jubilee Moon: An interview with Pat Conroy, Part I By KATHERINE CLARK, Special to the Press-Register Pat Conroy told me his will to become a writer came from his mother, who raised him to be a Southern novelist.

Review by Thumper: Thump from 1 to 5: Thump of 4 The film "Falling Down" is a 1993 action, psychological crime film, now considered a cult classic, directed by Joel Schumacher.

When John Timoney swooped into the Magic City six years ago, watching him play up to the local media was like seeing Robert Duvall play Lt.

Hoping they'd be discovered for a role in a Hollywood movie, about 200 girls converged in Lubbock to show they had "True Grit." An open call for casting Saturday at Lubbock's Homewood Suites attracted girls ages 12-16 who were hopeful they'd play the role of Mattie Ross in a remake of the 1969 film and novel, "True Grit." Among girls trying out for ...

Could this be Jeff Bridges' Oscar? It smacks of Robert Duvall's Oscar winner, Tender Mercies.

Winner of two Emmy's, and an ACE editing award, this riveting behind-the-scenes looks at the making of Francis Ford Coppola's APOCALYPSE NOW.

Owner of a 100-watt smile and all-around nice fella, Matt Damon , is in talks with the Coen Brothers to join an all-star cast for the remake of True Grit .

Rosa Lee Merz has taken the concept of "One Book, One Community" to heart. She's read portions of the classic novel chosen for the program - Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" - all over Stillwater, carrying the book with her as she went about daily tasks.

Francis Ford Coppola Coppola is an amazing talent whose inspiration and influence spans many generations.

While the 1960s would be typified as a sort of waking dream, where television and film seemed to bind at the genetic level with the political and social worlds, the 1970s came to be looked at as the Sunday morning after the bad acid trip.

Francis Joyce is a retired sea captain, obsessed with his physical condition, and living in a low-end apartment complex somewhere in Florida.

An overview of stock market chart and market dynamics to encourage investors and traders to be all they can be.

Johnny Carson once whimsically stated that "I am thankful that I eat only one thing that falls out of a turkey." Be that as it may, once you have finished your fowl food feast, give thanks for what you are about to receive ... hopefully a perfect score on this Thanksgiving Day trivia quiz.

JOE KIDD a ' One of Clint Eastwood's best post-"Man With No Name" Westerns, this 1972 saga finds Kidd hired by a tycoon named Frank Harlan .

Budgets spiraling out of control; cast and crew on the verge of collapse; sets destroyed: Just a few of the catastrophes to afflict the ill-fated productions in The Screening Room's Top 10 movie shoots from hell.

A few years ago, Albertan Spencer Eastabrooks was an extra in the Robert Duvall miniseries Broken Trail , which was partially shot at Bow River Ranch in Cochrane .

Dennis Hopper was reportedly rushed to the emergency room of a New York hospital Wednesday.