“M. Night thriller moves to Canada - Winnipeg Sun” plus 4 more

M. Night thriller moves to Canada - Winnipeg Sun
White Christmas” Returns To Broadway - KWTX
Judge: Cyrus's accused stalker a danger - KHOU
Hikers rescued after journey into the wild - Juneau Empire
SALE OF CRYPT ABOVE MONROE'S FALLS THROUGH - PR Inside

M. Night thriller moves to Canada - Winnipeg Sun

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:17 AM PDT

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania's budget impasse even has the Devil heading for the hills.

The upcoming thriller by M. Night Shyamalan is moving production from Philadelphia north to Toronto.

Officials with the state film office say that's because of uncertainty about whether Pennsylvania's film tax credit will be approved in the budget, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.

The budget has been in limbo for nearly two months.

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White Christmas” Returns To Broadway - KWTX

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT

NEW YORK (August 24, 2009)--The stage version of Irving Berlin's musical, "White Christmas," is serving up another round of holiday cheer.

The musical based on the 1954 movie classic returns to Broadway's Marquis Theatre on Nov. 13.

The show, which premiered at the Marquis last season, will run through Jan. 3.

Berlin's catalog of songs includes the title song and standards like "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm."

Producer Kevin McCollum calls Berlin's songs a perfect fit for Broadway.

"You can't have the holidays without Irving Berlin," he said.

"White Christmas" is a lavish interpretation of the movie that starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. McCollum says casting will be announced later.

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Judge: Cyrus's accused stalker a danger - KHOU

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:29 AM PDT

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. -- A man charged with trying to stalk teen star Miley Cyrus told an investigator he planned on returning to her Georgia movie set and "finishing things," her security guard told a judge Tuesday.

Municipal Court Judge Steven Scheer refused a request to lower Mark McLeod's $55,200 bond and ruled there was sufficient evidence to send the case to Chatham County State Court.

Scheer said he felt McLeod, 53, had no chance of getting to the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star because she "can afford the best protection money can buy," but he feared McLeod might be a threat to others.

Cyrus recently finished filming "The Last Song" on Tybee Island and in neighboring Savannah. Police say McLeod came to the island twice, once in June, then again this month asking where he could find her.

Robert Merriman, a former Savannah-Chatham County police detective hired by Walt Disney Pictures to protect Cyrus, testified that McLeod made a taped statement to a sheriff's investigator in Columbia County, where he was arrested at his home Aug. 4.

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"He said that he knew the filming was going to be ending soon and he was going to be coming back to Tybee Island and finishing things," said Merriman, who told the judge that he interpreted the comment as a threat.

"I can't deny him bond, but if I could I would because I do feel he's a danger," Scheer said.

James Byrne, McLeod's defense attorney, said McLeod is an unemployed assistant plumber and will likely remain in jail because he cannot afford bond. All charges against him are misdemeanors.

"He's been kind of painted as this monster, but he's got a family," Byrne said. "He's not a danger. What he said I understand was unsettling to a lot of folks ... but it doesn't make him a stalker."

Police say McLeod told an officer he was engaged to marry Cyrus and she sent him secret messages through her TV show after his first arrest June 22 on charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of a police officer.

But police backed away from an earlier assertion that McLeod had tried to breach a security barricade around the beachside film set.

Tybee Island police officer Javier Valdez said he arrested McLeod after approaching him about complaints that McLeod was bothering young girls gathered near the set. He testified that McLeod refused to leave and began cursing, prompting police to arrest and handcuff him.

Hikers rescued after journey into the wild - Juneau Empire

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 10:56 PM PDT

ANCHORAGE - Two hikers have been rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting the bus made famous in the Sean Penn-directed movie "Into the Wild."

Troopers said the two were not prepared for an extended hike, with only street clothes and a little food.

The "magic bus" gained fame after a young adventurer Christopher McCandless hiked out to it and died in an adventure chronicled in "Into the Wild."

The hikers were identified as 19-year-old Donald Carroll from Illinois and 21-year-old Jia Long He from China.

The Anchorage Daily News reported they were cold and wet after being rescued by helicopter Monday, but OK.

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SALE OF CRYPT ABOVE MONROE'S FALLS THROUGH - PR Inside

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:44 AM PDT

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The online sale of the crypt above movie icon MARILYN MONROE's final resting place has fallen through after the bidder failed to come up with the cash.
Elsie Poncher put the crypt where her husband Richard has been buried since 1986 up for auction on eBay.com earlier this month (Aug09) for $500,000 (Â£333,300) - and the price quickly spiralled into the millions as Monroe fans desperately tried to buy the plot.
A sale through the auction website was confirmed on 24 August (09) - with the crypt selling for $4.6 million (Â£2.9 million).
But the buyer, who is an unidentified bidder from Japan, has pulled out, leaving Poncher to seek for the next highest bid.
It is believed 28 other people tried to enter big-buck amounts for the crypt.
The plot is in the Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery, which is the final resting place for several Hollywood legends including Dean Martin, Truman Capote and most recently Farrah Fawcett.