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8 July 2008 3:06 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Wild and wooly, there was little to love, but a lot to look forward to... A lot has happened in the past six months and while there may not have been very many good movies and there were plenty of bad ones there was much more to remember as well as a lot to look forward to. First off, the writers'strike was finally settled, but as we move into the second half of 2008 the actors are now threatening to shut down Hollywood with a strike of their own. We learned of a new kind of woman out in the wild and she is known as a "Twilight Mom", a term that proved it could wreck havoc on your server should you decide to bash any part of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" novels or the film based on said material. I wrote an article called "I Wanna Be a 'Twilight' Mom!

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13 May 2008 5:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Late actor Roy Scheider will appear on the silver screen for the final time in upcoming movie Iron Cross - three months after his death.

The actor, who was best known for playing police chief Martin Brody in the Jaws franchise, was just one scene away from completing his last film before dying of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells, earlier this year.

But movie bosses will resurrect the star with the help of a prosthetic mask and a stand-in actor in a bid to finish the film, reports New York gossip column PageSix.

A source tells the publication, "The casting director is working with top Hollywood make-up artist and prosthetic latex mask-maker Louis Lazzara.

"(He'll) create a perfect replica of Scheider's face and ensure the final scene can be completed with the use of a stand-in actor."

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26 February 2008 10:32 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Some analysts were suggesting that in the haste to mount Sunday night's Oscar telecast following the writers' strike, the show's writers failed to research their material sufficiently. That might have accounted for the omission of some names from the annual list of the "departed." Several writers immediately noticed the fact that Roy Scheider, who died on Feb. 10, was overlooked, as was Brad Renfro who died on January 15. A spokeswoman for the Academy said that Scheider's death came too recently to be included and of Renfro, she said, "Unfortunately we cannot include everyone." But a message on Nikki Finke's Dateline Hollywood Today blog observed that others not included in the list were such notables as Robert Goulet, Merv Griffin, Marcel Marceau, Tom Poston, and Charles Nelson Reilly, among many others. Also setting off a major controversy was the omission of Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin from a montage featuring Oscar hosts. Appearing on The View, where she is a regular panelist, Goldberg, a four-time Oscar emcee, appeared emotional over the slight. Her fellow panelists observed that she was the first woman ever to host the Oscars, the first Oscar winner to host the affair, and that her entrance in white face as Queen Elizabeth ("The African Queen") was one of the most memorable Oscar incidents. "Did you make somebody at the Oscars mad?" she was asked. "Undoubtedly," she replied."

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3 articles from 2008