Archive: March 2009 (31-40 of 349)

Mar 30 2009 09:54 AM ET

Mark Burnett, ABC team for business-themed reality show

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Mark Burnett has signed on with ABC for his latest reality venture: Shark Tank, an Americanized version of British hit Dragon’s Den, follows "eager entrepreneurs pitch their business ventures to five multimillionaire tycoons," according to the Hollywood Reporter. Those tycoons include Robert Herjavec, Kevin Harrington, Barbara Corcoran, Kevin O’Leary, and Daymond John.

Mar 30 2009 09:46 AM ET

GLAAD honors Tyra Banks

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Tyra Banks, Suze Orman, and Keith Olberman were among the celebrities honored at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York Saturday night. Clay Aiken presented Tyra Banks with the excellence in media award, which, according to a GLAAD press release, "is presented to individuals who, through their work, have increased the visibility and understanding of the LGBT community in the media." Orman won the Vito Russo award, which recognizes an openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender media professional who promotes equal rights. Orman urged the crowd to "take note of what corporations put their time and money behind gays, behind lesbians – behind you." Phil Donahue,  an honoree at the first GLAAD Media Awards in 1990, accepted a special recognition award, and Olberman accepted an award for his show’s segment "Special Comment: Gay Marriage is a Question of Love." Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom and Shelter tied for outstanding limited-release film, and As the World Turns won for outstanding daily drama. Other GLAAD honorees will be recognized at a Los Angeles ceremony next month.

Mar 30 2009 01:45 AM ET

Academy Award-winning film composer Maurice Jarre, 84, dies

Academy Award-winning film composer, Maurice Jarre, 84, has died of cancer in Los Angeles, according to the AFP. Jarre won three Oscars for his work in Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Jarre’s most recent score was for the 2001 TV mini-series, Uprising.

Mar 28 2009 07:10 PM ET

Author/producer Steven Bach, 70, dies

Producer/author Steven Bach died on Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Vermont, at the age of 70 from cancer, according to The New York Times. Bach was a producer on films like The Taking of Pehlham 1 2 3 and The Parallax View. He became the senior vice president in charge of worldwide production at United Artists in 1978 and was responsible for greenlighting Raging Bull, Annie Hall and the infamous box-office bomb, Heaven’s Gate. Bach later wrote a critically acclaimed book about the Gate experience called Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate.  

Mar 28 2009 06:53 PM ET

Natasha Richardson: 911 transcript released

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Ten days after Natasha Richardson’s tragic death following a head injury, Canada’s Globe and Mail has released transcripts of the 911 calls from the  Mont Tremblant ski resort in Quebec where the accident took place. According to the Globe and Mail report, at 1 p.m. on March 16, a medic who responded to the 911 call radioed back to hospital staff with the code "10-17," which meant he had arrived at the destination, and said, "Uhh, we’re still waiting for the patient." Eleven minutes later, the medic radioed again, saying, "There’sa [ski] patroller who just went by, who tells me it’s a 10-3." This meant that the job had been cancelled; initially, Richardson declined treatment.

But at 2:59 p.m., another call was made and this time the case was classified as "dangerous": "Priority 1, Mont Tremblant…17-Delta-1." Richardson was then rushed to a local hospital, the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien inSainte-Agathe. Just before 4 p.m., the medic described her as "verbal," meaning she responded when spoken to butotherwise drifted off. Her orientation rating was 0. This indicated that she didn’t know where she was,what day it was, or what had happened to her.

Richardson was later transferred to the Montreal trauma center Hopital du Sacre-Coeur. The ambulance carrying her arrived there less than 45 minutes after leaving the first hospital, at 6:38 p.m. The Globe and Mail reports that a neurologist on duty was overheardsaying that Ms. Richardson’s pupils were unresponsive, a sign ofadvanced brain damage. It is possible that had Richardson been transported by medical helicopter sooner, she might have survived.

Richardson died in New York City’s Lenox Hill hospital on March 18.

More from EW:
Natasha Richardson: 17 Key Roles
Natasha Richardson: A Critical Appreciation

Mar 28 2009 03:34 PM ET

Katherine Heigl will stick with 'Grey's' if they'll have her

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Katherine Heigl, the Grey’s Anatomy star known for speaking her mind, is happy to stick with the show as long as they will have her. At a party yesterday celebrating Grey’s 100th episode, Heigl said she did not know whether her character, Dr. Izzie Stevens, who is battling cancer, was going to be killed off at the end of this season. According to an AP report, the actress said, "I was assuming that at one point and I got a lot of shruggedshoulders and shakes of the head, so I don’t know if that’s a yes or ano. No one will tell me and I don’t know how this is going to go. Idon’t know if I live or die. I don’t know how Izzie fares." If Izzie does kick cancer, Heigl said she’d gladly remain on Grey’s — "I’m there," she told the AP — and called the set "one of my favorite places to be." She also said that she had no problem juggling a television and movie career. "I’m more than happy to make that compromise. As my agent likes to say, ‘High-class problems.’ I don’t know if I want to continue for five years working 12 months ayear, but I can take at least another year or two." Perhaps this is the beginning of a kinder, gentler Heigl?

Mar 28 2009 01:38 AM ET

Kathy Bates joins Sandra Bullock in 'The Blind Side'

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Kathy Bates has been added to the cast of The Blind Side, the fact-based football dramedy to which Sandra Bullock is already attached, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bates will play a tutor hired to help raise the homeless young football prospect taken in Bullock’s character. John Lee Hancock (The Rookie) is directing the film, based on Michael Lewis’ best-selling book The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game.

Mar 28 2009 12:25 AM ET

Vanessa Redgrave reschedules 'Year of Magical Thinking' special engagement

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Vanessa Redgrave has rescheduled her one-night charity performance of The Year of Magical Thinking for Oct. 26, the Associated Press is reporting. The one-woman stage show based on Joan Didion’s memoir had been scheduled for April 27 at New York’s Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, but, as EW first reported, Redgrave postponed it after her daughter Natasha Richardson died following a skiing accident earlier this month.

Mar 28 2009 12:15 AM ET

Tobey Maguire to produce, possibly star in auto-racing movie 'The Limit'

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Tobey Maguire will produce and possibly star in the Grand Prix-focused drama The Limit, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film centers on two real-life friends and rivals who raced Ferraris and competed against each other in 1961. The project is based on a forthcoming book by Michael Cannell.

Mar 27 2009 05:33 PM ET

Madonna's new adoption: Malawian court to review her request

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As we reported yesterday,  Madonna is looking to adopt a second child from Malawi. Reuters is now reporting that on Monday, a Malawian court will review the singer’s request to adopt a 14-month-old girl named Mercy James, who comes from the same orphanage as the singer’s adopted son David. "Her name is Mercy James from Mchinji Home of Hope orphanage. She has no father and mother; they both died," an official at the ministry of Gender and Child Development told Reuters. "We finished the assessment yesterday in readiness for the courts next week." Because foreign adoptions are not officially allowed in Malawi, news of Madonna’s plans has sparked controversy, with some speculating that the pop star is benefiting from special treatment. But Madonna, 50, was recently quoted in a local Malawian newspaper saying that she would only go through with a second adoption if the Malawian people supported it. She is expected to arrive in Malawai this weekend.

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