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Hollywood Forger's New Book

24 July 2008 12:02 PM, PDT

A woman who pretended to be Hollywood legends Dame Julie Andrews, Humphrey Bogart and Dorothy Parker is confessing all in a new book.

Lee Israel spent two years writing forgeries from her New York apartment and selling them to autograph dealers around the country.

In forthcoming release Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Israel confesses to forging more than 500 letters.

And she has no regrets about ripping off autograph dealers: "Those letters never misrepresented any large truth. They were fun, and nobody got hurt, and everybody made money."

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Vince Vaughn: He's Worth Every Dollar

24 July 2008 10:36 AM, PDT

Given what his movies cost to make, what he's paid to appear in them, and what they bring in at the box office, Vince Vaughn ranks No. 1 on Forbes magazine's Ultimate Star Payback List. The comedian's films earned $14.73 for every dollar he was paid, the magazine said. Because they took sizable pay cuts to appear together in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Matt Damon, George Clooney,Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts also ranked high on the list. However, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman landed at the bottom (more)

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Clay Aiken Reaches Out to Kenyan Children

24 July 2008 9:40 AM, PDT

Clay Aiken is just weeks away from becoming a dad, so it's only fitting that the singer and Unicef ambassador is blogging about children's issues. Aiken, 29, recently visited Somalia and Kenya, and has been blogging about the trip on the Unicef Web site. In his final posting, Aiken writes how violence during the country's election earlier this year left thousands of children homeless. And even though the unrest has decreased, many of the kids have not returned to their schools. "Getting children back to school is vital for their protection, and helps build a sense of normalcy in their lives,

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David Caplan

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Dances With The Arthouse: An Arthouse Flick That's Buh-buh-buh- buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-bad to the Bone

24 July 2008 7:27 AM, PDT

To no one's surprise, The Dark Knight took the American box office hostage and cracked all kinds of records last weekend. Records are made to be beaten, and the Hollywood film industry has always given itself the benefit of the doubt by counting box-office in terms of raw dollars (more)

Indie Jones

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'Saw V' Trailer Attached to 'X-Files' Prints?

24 July 2008 8:39 AM, PDT

Although we have yet to confirm the news (it's 8 Am here), B-d reader 'Oliver' tells us that the first official trailer for Lionsgate's Saw V will be attached to prints of The X-Files: I Want To Believe this Friday. If this is true, that would mean we'll (more)

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Feature: Gotham City, A Visual History

23 July 2008 12:00 PM, PDT

By Matt Singer

Since 1940's "Batman" #4, and his first movie serial three years later, the Caped Crusader has called Gotham City his home. On screen and on the printed page, its visual representation has changed quite a bit over almost 70 years. At times, the look of the (more)

Matt Singer

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