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VENICE (Reuters) - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie "Black Swan," the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, through one review saying the performance "elevates her ... to a major star." The 29-year-old plays a New York ballerina whose obsession with technical perfection takes a heavy toll on mind and body.Finally chosen ...
Sep
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Robert Joel Halderman, a former producer on the CBS news show "48 Hours", pleaded guilty in March to attempted grand larceny as part of a divide through prosecutors.He was sentenced to six months in a New York City jail, if it were not that was released early about serving four months due to good behaviour, the spokesman said.Halderman had threatened ...
Sep
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VENICE (Reuters) - The lives of four Arab-Israeli women spanning three generations against the backdrop of conflict are at the centre of "Miral," a film by Julian Schnabel based onward his Palestinian partner's biographical book. From the 1948 creation of the Jewish state to the 1993 Oslo accords that briefly raised hopes of peace in the Middle East, the film ...
Sep
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed steady like charged with execution producers after the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere in 2009. "Precious" went on to be nominated for several Academy Awards, including superlatively good picture and ...
Sep
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Australian actress Jessica McNamee will play Rachel McAdams' estranged younger sister in "The Vow," a romantic drama that starts shooting in Toronto next month. The Spyglass/Screen Gems design tells the real-life story of a newlywed New Mexico couple (McAdams, Channing Tatum) who cessation up in a car dash in pieces. The wife is put in ...