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...DIED. ANN MILLER, 81, leggy Hollywood star who tapped up a storm in such MGM musicals as Easter Parade, On the Town and Kiss Me Kate; in Los Angeles. As a girl, Miller danced to support herself and her mother. In Hollywood she was a high-energy, if less than first-rank, musical star. On Broadway, she got a chance to take center stage in her 60s, co-starring with Mickey Rooney in the 1979 musical Sugar Babies, which ran for nearly three years...
Cops and Pirates An inside look at the high-stakes battle between online movie pirates and the Hollywood gumshoes desperate to stop them...
Many Americans who download movies and buy pirate copies insist that doing so has no effect on their legitimate movie-buying or theatergoing habits. But it would be foolish for Hollywood to ignore the grim prophecy of the music industry--where album sales have dropped 16% since 2000. Right now, the movie industry's guardian angel is slow technology. Seasoned downloaders on a broadband connection generally need eight hours or more to download a film. But 18 months from now, it may take only 2 1/2 hours, according to calculations by BigChampagne. Eventually, "if you can download a movie with...
...people had downloaded it; movie geeks had panned the film online based on Gonzalez's copy, which had unfinished special effects; and the FBI was looking for him. Gonzalez was sentenced to six months house arrest, three years of probation and a $7,000 fine. And so he became Hollywood's perpetrator poster boy, one of the few movie uploaders to be prosecuted in the U.S.--but definitely not the last...
...University of Georgia, Seacrest majored in not just broadcasting but also business. "You can't be successful and have longevity in this business," he says, "if you don't have a business plan." Under Seacrest's thoroughly modern metrosexual exterior beats the heart of a septuagenarian Hollywood dinosaur. Among his idols, he says, are Larry King and Dick Clark, and Seacrest turned to the latter for advice on how to transform a spiffy smile and an affinity for what the kids like into a TV-production empire...