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Rosie O'Donnell's Sun Comments Branded "Irresponsible" By Skin Cancer Group

7 December 2009 9:14 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

Rosie O'Donnell has irked another group. The opinionated former "The View" host set off supporters of skin cancer group, Ray Festa Melanoma Foundation, for saying "exposure to the sun isn't dangerous."

The 47-year-old actress told host Rachael Ray earlier this month that she "lives to tan," and stated that one should not be afraid of exposure to the sun.

But the Ray Festa group, which aims to educate on the importance of early detection and prevention of skin cancer, thinks O'Donnell's comments are "ill-informed" and "irresponsible."

According to the New York Post, it wants the "A League Of Their Own" star to do a public service announcement and retract her statements.

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Interviews: Armand Assante, Lori Petty, Richard Roeper at the 2009 BMAs

3 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – The 2009 Best of the Midwest Awards, at Rockit Bar and Grill in Chicago on December 1st, had many notable attendees. Actors Armand Assante and Lori Petty, along with film critic Richard Roeper, were among them.

The 2009 BMAs celebrate the best of the Midwest Independent Film Festival, and stars, directors and the film press mingled at the awards event. HollywoodChicago was there, and scored interviews with Emmy Winner Armand Assante, Lori Petty, Best Director at the BMAs and featured in “A League of Their Own” and local celebrity critic Richard Roeper. Also lending some perspective was the producer of the Best Feature, Steven A. Jones of “The Merry Gentleman.”

Armand Assante, Actor, Emmy Winner for the Miniseries “Gotti”

The veteran character actor, who first made a big splash in 1980’s “Private Benjamin,” continues to smolder the screen with his distinctive style and look. He just wrapped up another Chicago-based film, »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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BMA Winners Announced at 2009 Midwest Independent Film Festival

3 December 2009 3:43 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – The 2009 Best of the Midwest Awards were given out on Tuesday night, part of a huge celebratory event at the Rockit Bar and Grill in downtown Chicago, capping another successful year at the Midwest Independent Film Festival.

Festival Director Mike McNamara was the Master of Ceremonies, giving out nine awards for the best of the 2009 season. The Midwest Independent Film Festival convenes Every first Tuesday of the month throughout the year, and showcases films directly associated with the Midwest area.

Best Feature Winner ‘The Merry Gentleman.’ Left to Right – Producers Steven A. Jones and Paul Duggan, Exec Producer Tom Bastounes, Midwest Indie Festival Director Mike McNamara at the BMAs in Chicago, December 1st, 2009.

Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com

Local Chicago legends Richard Roeper and Erich “Mancow” Muller hilariously roasted each other as part of the presentations, special guests included Armand Assante, John McNaughton (director of “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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'Laverne and Shirley's' Penny Marshall: 'I'm Fine'

16 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"Laverne & Shirley" star Penny Marshall opens up to "Extra" for the first time about reports that she's suffering from brain cancer and liver tumors.

"I'm fine," she told "Extra" at the 7th Annual Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation gala in NYC Friday night.

When asked about the National Enquirer's report that she had brain surgery late last month and was "battling for her life," she replied, "I know... there's all that sh*t. I'm »

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The Sunday Movie Quotes Quiz – The Answers

9 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Hope you all enjoyed the movie quote quiz. If you missed it, check it out here before you look down at the answers. Any feedback would be useful, too easy or too hard etc…

Here are the answers below, alongside the original quotes. Come back next Sunday for another quiz

1. A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen. – Way of the Gun

2. An ice-cream truck, an ice-cream truck. You know, they’ve got to get there before it melts. – The Cannonball Run

3. Rob…Rob…Rob…Rob… – Cloverfield

4. It’s fried rice, you plick – Lethal Weapon 4

5. I’m Toby N Tucker, that’s TNT, and when i go off, somebody gets hurt. – U-Turn

6. You were supposed to serve six warrants, instead you went out and you went on a rampage. – Young Guns

7. You kidnapped me with a candy bar? – The Chase

8. Please don’t shoot at the thermo-nuclear weapons! »

- Barry Steele

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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes

4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.

On the Waterfront (1954)

“You don’t understand! »

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Who's Going To Be The World Series Mvp? Forget A-Rod or A. J. Burnett, Give Me Willie Mays Hayes!

2 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

So the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez was last night's World Series hero, knocking a ninth-inning double for the go-ahead run and a 3-1 series lead against the Phillies. In tonight's Game 5, A. J. Burnett looks to mirror his one-run gem from last week as he takes the mound at Citizens Bank Park. With the Yanks possibly locking up the Fall Classic in a matter of hours, either of these guys could end up nabbing the series' Mvp award. Or the Phils could stage a comeback powered by Game 1 gods, Chase Utley and Cliff Lee.

Whatever happens, though, I know one thing: I detest both these teams because I am a heart-broken Mets fan (is there any other kind?). That's why when I think about ballplayers these days, I tend to think about movies. Cinema has given us some of the best and silliest sluggers and hurlers imaginable, and it is these »

- Eric Ditzian

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Top 7 Films Directed by Actors Turned Directors

30 October 2009 4:34 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.

The old joke is that all actors want to direct.  Though it’s maybe not true of all, I still had plenty to choose from in making this list.  The directors on this list all started life as actors, some still are, but I’d argue that they’re better known as directors.  This month, two well known actresses have tried their hand at direction, Drew Barrymore with Whip It (which was a great movie, I have no idea why it did so badly) and Natalie Portman doing a segment of New York I Love You.  Who knows, maybe one (or both) has a second career around the corner.

7. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Directed by John Cassavetes

Recap: A portrait of family in crisis when a woman (Gena Rowlands) goes mad and her husband (Peter Falk) tries to understand it.

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- Megan Lehar

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Movies We Love: A League of Their Own

28 October 2009 2:53 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

A League of Their Own (1992) There's no crying in baseball! Synopsis When WWII steals all our base-running-capable men, one junk food magnet has the foresight to realize that women can also pick up a bat and play the game. Jon Lovitz does some "acting!" and recruits a crew of women who will come together to form the four teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League including two sisters who form the heart of The Rockford Peaches. While they form the heart, Tom Hanks forms the gut. Why We Love It It is rarer and rarer that a movie like this is even made. I'd even go far to say that they don't make 'em like this anymore, but that would sound cliche, and you'd think I'd be able to come up with something more original. Well, I can't. But the point still stands. Director Penny Marshall has made a movie that's funnier than most comedies and »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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O'Donnell: 'I Could Have Dated Supermodel Nemcova'

28 October 2009 1:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Gay movie star and U.S. TV personality Rosie O'Donnell missed the chance to date a supermodel after failing to pick up love signals from Petra Nemcova when the stunner was a guest on her chat show.

The A League of Their Own star, who recently split from her wife Kelli Carpenter, insists she'd never date another celebrity - but she could have hooked up with the Czech beauty.

O'Donnell tells U.S. radio host Howard Stern her staff members made it clear that Nemcova, who has never confessed to being gay, was hitting on her - but the host was too focused on interviewing her to notice.

She says, "You would have to have a neon sign that said 'Rosie, I'm hitting on you' for me to get it... She did give me her phone number and we did talk on the phone a couple of times."

In the same interview, O'Donnell claimed she once almost romanced Angelina Jolie, but was too afraid of the actress to take up her offer of a dinner date.

She revealed, "We talked on the phone two or three times, but that was that. There was a tentative plan to have dinner that never came through. I was a little afraid of her. She's scary in a sexual kind of way." »

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Corden, Redknapp for Sky1's 'League'

20 October 2009 2:29 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

James Corden and Jamie Redknapp have signed up to front a new Sky1 show called A League Of Their Own. Corden will referee the panel show, which has recruited former England footballer Kedknapp as a team captain opposite Stuart Broad. League will set two teams of comedians, celebrity sports fans and major league sports stars against each other to see who has the most (more) »

- By Dan French

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Baseball Films - A Lineup of Undeniable “Hits”

14 October 2009 8:25 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

In 1982, I remember hoisting little Mike Sopocy on my shoulders after we’d won the Little League Championship Tournament in Schaumburg, Il. In those days, baseball wasn’t just something I participated in during the summer when we were off school, it was a life - complete with its own culture, vernacular and a dedication that continues to fuel my competitive juices.

This week, professional baseball teams from 4 metropolitan cities gather in a variety of arenas to determine who will go head-to-head in the final test of baseball greatness - The World Series - an event that always unveils itself in the crisp days of October.

 

There’s something about baseball that drives everyone. Whether it’s using baseball-riddled colloquialisms to describe your success or failure level on a workplace task; to describe how fast time is going during an event; or even how far you are along in a whimsical teenage physical relationship, »

- Mike Wilkerson

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Toronto: Drew Barrymore directs Ellen Page in 'Whip It,' plus two sizzling docs

14 September 2009 12:29 PM, PDT | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

Roller derby chick flicks aren't novel. I have fond memories from the '70s of catching endless TV replays of The Kansas City Bomber, with its vaguely kinky girl-on-girl aggression (it starred Raquel Welch, who wasn't quite an actress but knew how to get mad). So I was primed to see Whip It, the first movie directed by Drew Barrymore, with Ellen Page as a 17-year-old small-town Texas high school student (Page, with her elfin girlishness, will probably be playing 17-year-olds when she's 37), who lies about her age in order to join the Hurl Scouts, a roller derby team based in Austin. Barrymore is such a nice, sweet person that you may wonder how she could possibly have directed a movie about demon women on wheels whose primary athletic activity consists of bashing each other's bodies. Here's how. Whip It is a nice, sweet roller derby movie. There's no edge to it, »

- Owen Gleiberman

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The worst movies ever to grace the screen

8 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

A few weeks ago, I called Sandra Bullock's rom-com, All About Steve, part of her comeback tour. Boy, did I get that wrong.

What I didn't know at the time was that All About Steve has been collecting shelf dust for two years, because the movie's financial backers didn't know what to do with it. After Bullock's stellar box office showing in The Proposal and Bradley Cooper's surprise success in The Hangover, the good folks who brought us Miss Congeniality 2 decided to go ahead and release Steve.

It came out Friday to the worst Rotten Tomatoes ratings I have ever seen in my life.

It was late afternoon on Friday before it moved past a zero percent approval rating.

Still, Steve brought in over 13 million dollars on opening weekend (though there is no record of how many people demanded their ten bucks back after the movie was over). So, »

- stuntdouble

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Lori Petty Gets Probation In DUI Case

4 September 2009 1:43 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

Court records show actress Lori Petty will serve five years probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge. City Attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says Petty entered the plea through her attorney and has already completed some of the terms of her sentence, which include alcohol abuse counseling.Petty was arrested May 30 after allegedly hitting a skateboarder with her car in the Venice Beach area.Petty's film credits include "Point Break," ''Tank Girl" and "A League of Their Own." The 45-year-old actress was not required to appear in court »

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Actress Petty Gets Probation For DUI Charge

3 September 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Tank Girl star Lori Petty has been sentenced to five years' probation after pleading no contest to a charge of driving under the influence (DUI).

The 45 year old, who also played Madonna's teammate in baseball film A League of Their Own, was arrested in Venice, California in May after allegedly hitting a teenage skateboarder with her car.

She was initially charged with DUI with injury, DUI with a blood alcohol level of .08 or higher with injuries, and driving without insurance, but the counts were dismissed as part of a plea deal, and the DUI charge reduced to a misdemeanour.

Petty's lawyer Blair Berk appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court last week (ends28Aug09) for the sentencing hearing.

The actress, who was not present, was also ordered to pay fines, undergo outpatient treatment for alcohol abuse and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

The teenager she reportedly knocked down only suffered minor injuries, reports People.com. »

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Lori Petty To Get Five Years' Probation in DUI Case

3 September 2009 10:50 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Lori Petty, best known for her roles in Tank Girl and A League of Their Own, will plead no contest Friday to a misdemeanor DUI charge and serve five years' probation, according to a source close to the case. Petty, 45, was arrested last May after hitting a 14-year-old skateboarder while driving in Venice, Calif. The boy's injuries were minor. The actress will pay fines, receive outpatient treatment and attend AA meetings. A second DUI charge was dismissed as part of her plea deal. Petty will not attend the hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court, but will be represented by her attorney, »

- Ken Lee

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Republicans and Democrats Prove That Pink Prevails Over Red and Blue

14 July 2009 9:06 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

A League Of Their Own. Clockwise from top: Senator Susan Collins, Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Considering that baseball is referred to as “America’s pastime,” it’s no surprise that ball games are a popular summer social activity in Washington, D.C., bringing out a competitive streak in everyone from the District’s elite to the lowly interns. There’s the annual Roll Call Congressional baseball game, in June, where Republican and Democratic members of Congress are given the chance to slug it out on the field instead of the floor; the R.N.C.-vs.-D.N.C. matchup, also in June, where national-party staffers aim to win bragging rights; and the weekly Senate and House softball leagues, where Hill workers battle it out for office pride. This year, even President Obama will have the chance to show his skills: today »

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O'Donnell Gives Up Beer After Showdown With Son

24 February 2009 11:05 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actress/TV presenter Rosie O'Donnell gave her kids a sober Christmas gift - she quit drinking beer.

The A League of Their Own star has revealed she stopped drinking on 1 December after her teenage son, Parker, refused to get her a beer from the refrigerator.

She says, "I was with my son, who is now 13, and I said to him, 'Park, can you get me a beer?' and he said, 'No, I don't want to.' And I said, 'Really why not?' And he says, 'Because... I think you drink too much beer."

"I said 'You know, when I was a kid - when I was 22 - I stopped drinking for, like, eight years.' He goes, 'Well, maybe you should do that again.'"

And when O'Donnell revealed she'd struggle with sobriety, her son suggested she seek help.

She tells U.S. talk show host Tyra Banks, "He said, 'There's a drunk club. I forget what it's called, but you have to, like, be really drunk to get in. I don't know if they'd let you in, but you could ask them for tips.'" »

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