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Paranormal Activity (movie) - Chicago Tribune
Movie-industry lobbyist plans to leave his job - Vindicator
Paris Hilton lands movie role, demands live lobsters - AZCentral.com
Movie Studios Against Twitter - The Celebrity Cafe.com
Clooney promotes 'Up in the Air' at Rome film fest - Forbes

Paranormal Activity (movie) - Chicago Tribune

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 07:57 PM PDT

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Movie-industry lobbyist plans to leave his job - Vindicator

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 08:54 PM PDT

Movie-industry lobbyist plans to leave his job

WASHINGTON — The top lobbyist for Hollywood's movie industry will leave his job next year.

Angela Belden Martinez, spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America, says chairman Dan Glickman will step down in September when his contract expires. She says Glickman will probably look for a public service job, perhaps pursuing his interests in hunger and nutrition issues.

The job representing movie studios is one of Washington's most coveted lobbying posts. Glickman earned more than $1.2 million in 2007, but has not been as visible as his predecessor, the late Jack Valenti.

Wyclef Jean collaborates to work on his memoir

NEW YORK — Wyclef Jean is working on a memoir.

The solo star and former frontman for The Fugees is collaborating with Rolling Stone writer Anthony Bozza on a book — currently untitled — to be published by It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Financial terms weren't disclosed and a release date hasn't been set.

The publisher announced in a statement Monday that the book will cover Jean's life, from his childhood in rural Haiti to his musical career and philanthropic work.

Jean, who just turned 37, is known for such hit singles as "We Trying to Stay Alive" and "Gone Till November." With the Fugees, he recorded the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling album "The Score."

Complaints pour in over column on singer's death

LONDON — Britain's press watchdog says it has received a record 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive.

Gately died Oct. 10, aged 33, while vacationing on the Spanish island of Mallorca. An autopsy found he had died of natural causes from fluid in the lungs.

Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir wrote that Gately's death was "not, by any yardstick, a natural one" and said he died in "sleazy" circumstances.

Anger at the column swept social networking site Twitter, with actor Stephen Fry urging his 860,000 followers to contact the Press Complaints Commission.

Today's birthdays

Actor William Christopher ("M*A*S*H*") is 77. Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson is 72. Musician Tom Petty is 59. Actor Viggo Mortensen is 51. Drummer Jim "Soni" Sonefeld of Hootie and the Blowfish is 45. Bassist Doug Eldridge of Oleander is 42. Rapper Snoop Dogg is 38. Actor John Krasinski is 30. Actress Jennifer Nicole Freeman ("My Wife and Kids") is 24.

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Paris Hilton lands movie role, demands live lobsters - AZCentral.com

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Paris Hilton reportedly demanded live lobsters on the set of her new movie.

The blond socialite, who makes a cameo appearance in action comedy 'The Other Guys', gave movie bosses a three-page rider before she agreed to the role.

A source told the New York Post newspaper: "Paris has a cameo role in the movie, where she plays herself.

"The producers were shocked when her team handed them a three-page list of demands - including live lobsters to be prepared fresh when she's ready to eat and a bottle of Grey Goose vodka - all for just one day on the set.

"All celebrities are typically offered riders, but it seemed excessive for just one day's work playing herself. She was due to fly to New York to film in secret last week."

Paris' representative has denied the 28-year-old star demanded live lobsters, saying: "This is totally ridiculous and untrue."

'The Other Guys' stars Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson.

In the movie, 'The Rock' and Jackson play elite police officers, while Ferrell and Wahlberg have been cast as incompetent detectives.

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Movie Studios Against Twitter - The Celebrity Cafe.com

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 07:49 PM PDT

Movie Studios Against Twitter
19-Oct-2009
Written by: Danielle Hazell

The film industry is starting to impliment an antie-Twitter clause

Movie Studios are beginning to put an anti-Twitter clause in stars' contracts. Reports are saying that Disney has a clause forbidding confidentiality breaches by way of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook or personal blog.

Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz are believed to have signed a Dreamworks contract with the anti-Twitter clause for their upcoming "Shrek" film.

A few entertainment blogs are reporting that studios are trying to completely ban the use of social networks by celebrities or at least curb their use.

Movie studios have still not spoken on the subject.

Dreamworks has stated "It's our policy not to discuss talent agreements."

Hollywood may be reacting to celebrities leaking information before it is due for the public. For example, Paula Abdul announced on her Twitter account that she would be leaving "American Idol" which surprised Fox executives.

The film industry is not the first to take notice of the power social networks have. The National Football League (NFL) announced to the public its social-media policy earlier this year. The NFL's policy bans tweeting during, prior and after a game for all coaches, players, referees and on-hand media.

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Clooney promotes 'Up in the Air' at Rome film fest - Forbes

Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:27 AM PDT

ROME -- George Clooney says there is a lot he can relate to in his new movie "Up in the Air," a comic drama about a man who travels across the United States to lay off people amid the financial crisis.

Like his character, Clooney says he has worked around the clock, at times to the detriment of his friendships and family relations. And while he doesn't fire people for a living, Clooney says he had his fair share of layoffs before becoming a Hollywood star.

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"There are a lot of things about this guy I understand," Clooney said of his character, speaking at the Rome Film Festival where the Jason Reitman movie was presented Saturday. "Part of it is - and a good portion of it is - that you can spend a large part of your time literally up in the air, you can spend it working and missing part of your life."

"I spent a long time unemployed and when you are broke and unemployed, when you finally start working you don't wanna stop," Clooney said. "Sometimes when you do that you'll end up missing your family, your friends, people that you care about."

Clooney's character, corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham, is busier than ever as companies struggle in the financial crisis. As he travels across America, he tries to rack up a million frequent-flyer miles.

"To know me is to fly with me. This is where I live," Bingham says at one point in the movie, as he expertly navigates check-ins and security controls in one of the U.S. airports he calls home. But his desire to live an isolated life on the road, with no strings attached, is put to test when he meets fellow frequent-flyer Alex, played by Vera Farmiga.

The movie received warm applause at a press screening at the festival, where it is running for best-picture award. It is director Reitman's follow-up to "Juno," which won in Rome in 2007 and went on to become a best-picure nominee at the Oscars.

The gloomy atmosphere brought about by the financial crisis figures significantly in the movie, some of which takes places in hard-hit cities such as Detroit. Many of the workers who get fired in the movie are played by people who in real life lost their jobs in the past year, Reitman said.

"You can feel the effect everywhere, we were in Detroit, Michigan where you can really feel it, we were in St. Louis where you can really feel it," said Clooney. "It's incredibly dramatic right now, we're facing the worst recession/depression since the 1930s and it's a great concern."

Being fired is something Clooney remembers from his pre-acting days, when he said he worked various jobs, from selling insurance door-to-door to selling men suits or women's shoes.

"I've been fired from a good many jobs," the 48-year old Hollywood star recalled.

"I have some understanding of it.... I did not have a family to support so I did not have the same sort of pressure that other people have," he said, though he admitted: "It's been a while since I've been fired."

One thing that Clooney says is different from his character is a sense of loneliness.

Bingham has a small empty house that he doesn't like coming back to. He cherishes his time alone and has little contact with his family, though ultimately he finds himself longing for deeper, more meaningful relations.

"I actually have a pretty great life, I've great friends, people I'm very close to and great family," Clooney said. "We're very different in that sense: He really is truly alone and I don't find myself often alone."

Clooney, one of Hollywood's most sought after bachelors, is expected to walk the red carpet later Saturday with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, his reported girlfriend.

The Rome festival runs through Oct. 22.

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