AP - Judy Davis was awarded $134,000 in damages Friday from a newspaper that ridiculed her as heartless for opposing a plan to erect floodlights in a park near the actress' harborside home in Sydney. -- read full article
Reuters - The last time Eddie
Murphy visited from outer space, the result was the spectacular
2002 misfire, "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." -- read full article
AP - In a July 9 story about the premiere of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the surname of a cast member. His name is Matt Lanter, not Lander. -- read full article
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild rejected the latest contract offer from Hollywood studios on Thursday but claimed it was willing to negotiate and presented a counterproposal.
Reuters - British independent TV producer and
distributor DCD Media Plc said on Thursday it had won worldwide
rights to produce a documentary on the "pregnant man" for
Britain's Channel Four. -- read full article
AP - The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, the studios said Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - "Unless I'm home, I cannot be a great husband and father — especially the father of a child with special needs." — Benjamin Bratt, explaining that his 5-year-old daughter Sophia suffered brain injury at birth, resulting in physical disabilities.
