| Oscar winners for theater | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:07:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oscar-winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cate Blanchett will step out of the spotlight to direct stage plays in Australia next year. Hoffman, 39, the American who won the best actor Academy Award for his startling turn as author Truman Capote in Capote, will direct the world premiere of a play called Riflemind, starring Hugo Weaving. The play, to be staged by the Sydney Theatre Company, is written by Andrew Upton, the husband of Australian star Blanchett, who will direct David Harrower's award-winning play Blackbird, about the awkward aftermath of an underage sexual relationship. Hollywood-based Blanchett, 37, won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic about the life of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, The Aviator.... | |
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| | | "The Heat is On!" in Tampa! | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 11:04:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | Oscar De La Hoya will deliver the Tampa Bay area an early Christmas gift this year when Winky Wright and Jeff "Left Hook" Lacy return to their hometown Saturday, December 2nd for "THE HEAT IS ON!" Wright (50-3-1, 25 KOs) is featured in a crossroads bout against fellow former world champion Ike Quartey (37-3-1, 31 KOs) and Lacy (21-1, 17 KOs) is showcased in the co-main event against an opponent to be named. "As a co-promoter of this event, I am honored to be associated with one of the best boxers today," De La Hoya said of Wright. "I know first-hand how tough Ike Quartey is since he was one of my toughest fights. This fight should be a war!" Quartey could not be present for the press conference but David Itskowitch of DiBella Entertainment read a brief statement on behalf of the former champion: "The real winners of this fight are the fans.... | |
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| | | Duke, Marquette headline field for CBE Classic | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:08:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Duke, Marquette, Stanford and Texas Tech will be the host schools for the opening rounds of the College Basketball Experience Classic, formerly known as the Guardians Classic. The winners of the four-team regional brackets will advance to the semifinals in Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 20. The championship game will be in Municipal Auditorium on Nov. 21. The first regional bracket will be Nov. 12-13 at Durham, N.C. with Duke playing Columbia, and Georgia Southern against Cal-Davis. The winners and losers meet the second night. Two sites will have games on Nov. 13-14. At Milwaukee, Marquette hosts Idaho State, while Maine plays Detroit. At Lubbock, Texas, Texas Tech hosts Gardner-Webb, and Arkansas-Little Rock faces Akron. The final regional bracket will be in Palo Alto, Calif., on Nov.... | |
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| | | Direct DVD releases? Just bring it on | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 5:15:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | What do you do if you have a popular movie franchise that seems worth continuing but maybe isn't quite worth pulling out all the stops for with a theatrical release? If you're Universal Studios Home Entertainment, you make a "DVD original" and start counting the money. Universal's cheerleading comedy, "Bring It On: All Or Nothing," sold 750,000 copies in its first week and generated $12 million in consumer spending, the studio said Wednesday. It is the second DVD sequel to the studio's 2000 hit "Bring it On," which starred Kirsten Dunst. "This is one of those classic cases where it makes all the sense in the world to create a new DVD original," said Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment. "Clearly there is intense interest in cheerleading." This follows Universal's successful continuation of its "American Pie" franchise last December by selling 1 million first-week copies of "American Pie Presents: Band Camp." "Band Camp" had the biggest first-week sales of any live-action DVD original, while "All or Nothing" had the second-biggest.... | |
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| | | Oscar-winner Christopher Walken replaces Jim Broadbent in Hairspray | | Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 11:04:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | Oscar-winning Man on Fire actor Christopher Walken has edged out Iris star Jim Broadbent in Adam Shankman's Hairspray for the role of protagonist Tracy Turnblad's father Wilber Turnblad. The film is a screen adaptation of a Broadway musical that was adapted from a 1988 film starring Sonny Bono, Ricky Lake and Ruth Brown. The music of the film would be written and composed by Tony winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Chris was the person Scott and I wanted in the first place, and this is a happy ending to this particular saga. It seems like this part allows him to coalesce all his skills into one role. I am constantly pessimistic, but I look at this cast and feel like I've fallen into an old MGM musical, said Shaiman referring to the The Stepford Wives star. .... | |
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| | | Justin Timberlake Should Stick to His Day Job | | Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 2:07:12 AM by Blog57 Team | | I can't say I'm particularly surprised that Justin Timberlake is getting low marks for his acting work. I mean, it's Justin Timberlake. His thing is to sing in a real high-pitched voice, dance around like Michael Jackson and sing songs about love and stuff -- like "Cry Me a River." But I'm shocked – shocked – that Justin's big acting debut, playing a reporter in Edison, is going straight to video. No, I didn't expect JT to get an Academy Award nomination or anything, but his costars are Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman and it's going straight to video?!? Like an Olsen flick!?! Here's hoping his album fares better. I've heard good things. .... | |
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| | | Peace sages and teens vs. world strife | | Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 7:02:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | When the largest gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners outside Oslo, Norway, comes to Denver this fall, it will announce the 12 core problems standing in the way of world peace. Some say the secret list - the result of a year's worth of conversations among some of the planet's foremost experts in conflict resolution - could have the significance of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Nobel laureates, among them the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will present their global action plan to 3,000 teenagers from 31 countries at PeaceJam, to be held Sept. 15-17 at the University of Denver. The $2.4 million event started by the Arvada-based PeaceJam Foundation teaches youth - from honors students to gang members - to create pockets of peace.... | |
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| | | Clint Eastwood to receive film honour | | Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:04:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Acclaimed U.S. filmmaker Clint Eastwood will be honoured this fall with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for excellence in film. Clint Eastwood won the best director Oscar in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby, which also won best picture at the Academy Awards that year. (Associated Press) Eastwood, an Oscar-winner for the films Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will be honoured in November by the Los Angeles bureau of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the group has announced. Praising Eastwood as "an undisputed international icon and an enormous creative force," BAFTA/LA chair Peter Morris said he was honoured to present the U.S. filmmaker with the group's highest film distinction. Eastwood, 70, will receive the award as part of the 15th annual Britannia Awards.... | |
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| | | T-Mobile show strength with Honchar Tour win | | Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 7:01:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | RENNES: Robbed of team leader Jan Ullrich on the eve of the Tour de France, T-Mobile showed their strength today when Ukraine's Serhiy Honchar powered to a crushing victory in the race's first big test, a 52-km time trial. s Honchar, the time trial world champion in 2000, grabbed the overall leader's yellow jersey from world champion Tom Boonen after finishing one minute one second ahead of American Floyd Landis. Germany's Sebastian Lang was third. Six T-Mobile riders ended the seventh stage in the top 20 on a bad day for the US and a catastrophic one for George Hincapie's Discovery Channel team. Hincapie, who was Lance Armstrong's lieutenant when the Texan won his seven Tours from 1999 to 2005 before retiring, was a distant 24th, 2:42 behind Honchar, and the highest placed Discovery Channel rider was Paolo Salvodelli of Italy in 19th.... | |
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