Audio hangs over ‘7th Heaven’ actor’s divorce case

November 8, 2014 0
FILE - This July 1, 2008 file photo shows actor Stephen Collins posing for a picture outside of the Shubert Theatre in New York. An audio recording in which the “7th Heaven” actor Collins purportedly admits he has molested young girls won't be played during his upcoming divorce trial, but it will factor in the proceedings and how much money his estranged wife, Faye Grant, receives from their lengthy marriage. The divorce trial begins Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When audio of former “7th Heaven” star Stephen Collins purportedly confessing to molesting underage girls appeared on the website TMZ last month, it did more than just damage the veteran actor’s career.

Leguizamo laughs last after being called ‘Fugly’

November 7, 2014 0
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2014 file photo, actor John Leguizamo attends a special screening of "John Wick" in New York. Leguizamo stars in "Fugly!" which opens Friday, Nov. 7, before going to video on demand on Nov. 25. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — He who laughs last laughs the best. And John Leguizamo, who was called “fugly” (beyond ugly) at school, makes use of the nickname that made him suffer in a new anti-romantic comedy that he stars in and co-wrote.

Thirty years on, Bhopal film highlights tragedy of world’s worst industrial disaster

November 7, 2014 0
Security guards play cards on the roof of the former control room of the Union Carbide Corp pesticide plant in Bhopal

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thirty years on from the Bhopal disaster, an international film opens on Friday dramatising the story of how an American pesticide factory in India accidentally released cyanide gas into the atmosphere, killing thousands of people and leaving many more sick or disabled. The thriller “Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain”, starring Hollywood actors Martin Sheen and Kal Penn, documents events leading up to the world’s worst industrial disaster and its devastating aftermath. …

French screenwriter ‘astonished’ at honorary Oscar

November 7, 2014 0
FILE - In this Thursday, Oc. 16, 2014 file photo, French writer and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, left, poses with his daughter Kiara, 12, after being honored with the medal of Commander of the National Order of Merit during an honor ceremony at Culture ministry in Paris, France. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Harry Belafonte at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 8, 2014, in Los Angeles. The 83-year-old novelist, screenwriter and playwright said he was “astonished” and “filled with joy” when he learned he was being recognized for his five-decade film career. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean-Claude Carriere has written more than 100 films. After winning an Oscar in 1962 for one of his earliest works, the French writer will accept a second statuette this weekend at the film academy’s Governors Awards.

Climate change inspires rise of ‘cli-fi’ flicks

November 7, 2014 0
Climate change inspires rise of 'cli-fi' flicks

The giant, inflatable whale in this Gulf Coast city signals not only the arrival of one of the world’s biggest documentary festivals, but also the emergence of film as a way to tell the story of climate …

Climate change inspires rise of ‘cli-fi’ flicks

November 7, 2014 0
FILE--In this July 2, 2014 file photo, Fabien Cousteau reacts as he returns to the dock after 31 days undersea in the Aquarius Reef Base, in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys. Cousteau and his team of filmmakers and scientists dove June 1 to study the effects of climate change and pollution on a nearby coral reef. Cousteau documented the 31-day underwater living experiment in a film, which was shown at the Blue Ocean Film Festival, held Nov. 3-9, 2014 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The festival is one of the biggest environmental documentary events in the world - and also the rise of the emerging genre of cli-fi movies, short for "climate fiction." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The giant, inflatable whale in this Gulf Coast city signals not only the arrival of one of the world’s biggest documentary festivals, but also the emergence of film as a way to tell the story of climate change.