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...Though his tenure as host of The Tonight Show lasted only five years, from 1957 to '62, the former disc jockey and B-movie actor made late-night TV both a habit and an event. He was a hot wire in a cool medium. Many a coffee-break chat would begin with "Did you see what Paar did last night?" He visited Cuba to talk to Castro, and Berlin when the Wall went up; he drew fresh notions from politicians and film idols when such figures were not ubiquitous TV presences. More often, Paar made news by being himself...
...liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each--the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...
...banning all screeners outright. But independent studios complained the ban would penalize small movies trying to get award nominations. In December the U.S. district court overturned the ban. Last week Sony traced a pirated copy of Something's Gotta Give to a screener intended for use by veteran character actor Carmine Caridi, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Last Samurai and other pirated screeners have also been traced back to Caridi, according to a source close to the investigation, though it is not yet clear if Caridi had anything to do with leaking...
...Virginia Woolf?; in New York City. Born in Germany and raised in Wisconsin, she began her career in London in 1937 as Ophelia in Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. She later won acclaim for her Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull and as the wife of an alcoholic actor in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. In the late 1940s, she and her second husband, actor-director Herbert Berghof, started HB Studio, a widely respected performing-arts school in New York City...
What with his romance with J. Lo and his status as a Hollywood hunk, actor Ben Affleck is seldom out of the public eye. And that's good news for L'Oreal, which employs Affleck--along with Formula One auto-racing superstar Michael Schumacher--as one of its advertising faces...