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Just days after Bill O’Reilly’s timeless meltdown was leaked all over the web, here comes another contender for the YouTube Hall of Fame.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is having a debate with a conservative radio host named Kevin James.
The subject was President Bush’s recent comments in the Knesset, that compared Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers like Neville [...]

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Private investigator Anthony Pellicano has been found guilty in the long running trial that exposed a murky world of wiretapping and intimidation in Hollywood.
Carla Hall and Tami Abdollah and of the LA Times report:
Anthony Pellicano was found guilty Thursday of scores of federal charges for conspiring to wiretap and intimidate dozens of celebrities and business [...]

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Legendary Hollywood publicist Warren Cowan has died at the age of 87.
Variety report:
Warren Cowan, known to many as the “father of Hollywood press agents,” died Wednesday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from heart failure after a long battle with cancer.
He was 87, according to his childhood friend, Variety columnist Army Archerd.
The celebrated [...]

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Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro are inviting fans to ask them 20 questions about the upcoming film version of The Hobbit which they will answer via a live webchat.

Click here to register at Weta’s official site.
> The Hobbit at the IMDb
> Weta’s official site

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The opening film of this year’s festival was Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.
Based on José Saramago’s 1995 novel it is about an epidemic of blindness in a modern city.

Here is a summary of some of the critical reaction:
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere [...]

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