Month: September 2014

Costner goes to bat for ‘Black and White’

September 8, 2014 0
Kevin Costner speaks during a press conference for "Black and White" at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Hannah Yoon)

TORONTO (AP) — Most of Kevin Costner’s most famous films wouldn’t seem to be easy sells. How would it today sound to pitch a studio on a Civil War soldier befriending Sioux Indians on the South Dakota plains? Or on an Iowa farmer who hears voices?

Hemingway grandsons push for marlin conservation in Cuba

September 8, 2014 0
John Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway, grandsons of the U.S. author Ernest Hemingway, walk before paying tribute to their grandfather in Cojimar village, Havana

By Daniel Trotta COJIMAR Cuba (Reuters) – Ernest Hemingway’s grandsons sailed into the fishing village that inspired “The Old Man and the Sea” on Monday in a campaign to save game fish like the giant marlin that dragged the fictitious Santiago out to sea. John and Patrick Hemingway arrived in Cojimar, on the eastern outskirts of Havana, to begin a weeklong visit to try to enlist Cuban marine scientists to join an effort to conserve billfish in the Straits of Florida. …

Mathematical minds multiply at Toronto film fest

September 8, 2014 0
Eddie Redmayne, from left, and James Marsh and Felicity Jones attend the premiere for "The Theory of Everything" on day 4 of the Toronto International Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in Toronto. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

TORONTO (AP) — In the Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything,” two college girls rush into a ’60s-era Cambridge party before the sight of the attendees stops them in their tracks.