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...producer Steve Bing were working on a movie together, a comedy called Why Men Shouldn't Marry, and now they aren't. The rest is for a judge to decide. Penn claims that Bing--whose credits include fathering Elizabeth Hurley's baby--called off the production because of the actor's high-profile antiwar activism, and he's suing Bing for $10 million. Penn calls it "blacklisting." Bing calls it "civil extortion," and he is filing a countersuit for $15 million that describes Penn as "crazy and irrational...
...DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, legendary comic actor who personified the postwar Italian male, with all his vices and virtues, during a career that spanned more than 50 years; in Rome. Known to Italians as "Big Alberto," Sordi often played an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. He appeared in more than 160 films, although he is best known internationally for his role in the 1965 adventure-comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...
...most vivid role may be the powerful and sagacious magician Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but he looks remarkably human as he reclines in an armchair dressed in rubber slippers, leather trousers and blue T shirt. After years as one of Britain's most distinguished stage actors, McKellen's turns as Gandalf and The X-Men's twisted Magneto have helped those films rake in a staggering combined gross of nearly $2 billion. He has twice been nominated for an Oscar, for Gandalf and the James Whale biopic Gods and Monsters. Though the 63-year-old insists...
This year, Queen Latifah holds the distinction of being the sole nominated actor of color, which comes as a disappointment of sorts following a banner year for African-Americans at the Academy Awards. In 2002, for the first time in history, two black actors took home the top acting awards. Denzel Washington won the Best Actor award for Training Day, while Halle Berry took the Best Actress prize for her work in Monster’s Ball...
...necessarily liberalizing. For more than a year, the country has been on a drive to consolidate China's irrationally diverse media properties, previously operated by local, provincial and national authorities, into a handful of big, powerful players. For example, Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group (SMEG), run by former actor Ye Zhikang, is a state-owned conglomerate with 50 subsidiaries, among them two TV stations, film studios, newspapers, a pair of symphony orchestras and a puppet troupe. All existed separately until 2001, when Beijing ordered them grouped into a company that now holds a virtual monopoly on the Shanghai media market...