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A major reboot at HBO
When Alan Taylor is directing your HBO television pilot, it's usually a sign the program is a lock to get on the air. The Emmy-award winning director has put his imprint on nearly every one of the network's major series, including "The Sopranos," " Sex...Tags: Sex and the City (movie), Mad Men (tv program), Television, Police, Theater
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Catching up with the Day's News...
The TV ZoneSometimes, for no good reason whatsoever, I overlook some important or semi-important developments in the day's news because I'm so intently focused on Tina Palin, or Oprah, or Cloris Leachman. So to catch up with some recent, semi-notable stuff,......Tags: New York, Television Industry, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Cloris Leachman, Matthew Perry
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Julie Allinson Makes Eyeglasses For People With A Sense Of Humor
For Julie Allinson, creating distinctive reading glasses with funky names like "Old Money," "Adult SuperVision" and "Hostile Makeover" was pure vanity. She needed simple reading glasses, but the ones that were out there were either drugstore boring or...Tags: Government, Johnny Depp, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Audrey Hepburn, Political Candidates
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Studio chiefs lining up early behind Antonio Villaraigosa
CAUSE CÉLÈBRELOSANGELESMayorAntonio Villaraigosa is continuing his summer fundraising tour of Hollywood hotshots and other locals, and cash is filling his 2009 reelection campaign coffer. He could end up with a better showing than "Iron Man" before it's over. The...Tags: Government, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, News Corp., William Morris, Television Industry
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Peter Guber, UCLA's navigator of narrative
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhat if you could send your life back to rewrite? Super producer Peter Guber thinks you can, and he's making the case for it in an innovative course he's developed through UCLA's film school. The course, called "Navigating a Narrative World," is the...Tags: Batman, Joan Didion, Dan Neil, Mass Media, Reviews
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HBO Is 'Reclaiming History'
Zap2It.comSixteen years after Oliver Stone's "JFK" gave voice to conspiracy theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, HBO is readying its own epic take on the case -- and coming down emphatically on the other side. The cable network has acquired the...Tags: Government, Satellite and Cable Service, Bill Paxton, Oliver Stone, John F. Kennedy
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Uma Thurman in 'Bed' with HBO
Zap2It.comGolden Globe winner Uma Thurman has signed on to an HBO movie adaptation of acclaimed playwright David Hare's drama "The Zinc Bed." Paddy Considine ("Hot Fuzz," "Cinderella Man") and Jonathan Pryce ("Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End") will also...Tags: Jonathan Pryce, Film Festivals, Cinderella, Movies, Cinema Industry
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HBO Asks Pollack for 'Recount'
Zap2It.comAs the 2008 presidential campaign ramps up, HBO is looking back at the last time the United States replaced a two-term president. The cable network has greenlit "Recount," which will dramatize the events surrounding the hotly contested Florida recount in...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Florida, Political Candidates, Sydney Pollack, Elections
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Bacon, HBO in Game of 'Chance'
Zap2It.comHBO has tapped Kevin Bacon to star in a film called "Taking Chance," about a Marine colonel who served as the military escort for the body of a young soldier killed in Iraq three years ago. The movie, based on a short story by Lt. Col. Michael Strobl,...Tags: Film Festivals, Kevin Bacon, Movies
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HBO Sails for 'The Pacific'
Zap2It.comHBO's long-in-development miniseries about the Pacific theater of World War II has finally received the green light. Titled "The Pacific," the 10-hour miniseries is scheduled to begin production this summer in Australia. Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and...Tags: Music, Armed Forces, Movies, Defense, John Adams
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HBO Readies 'John Adams'
Zap2It.comA long-gestating miniseries based on the prize-winning biography "John Adams" is ready to go at HBO. Filming is set to begin in February on the seven-hour project, which stars Paul Giamatti ("Sideways," "Cinderella Man") as the nation's second...Tags: Government, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, American Revolutionary War
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