Reuters - "Slumdog Millionaire," a tribute to
Mumbai and a story about a dream, won the top award at the
Toronto Film Festival on Saturday, ending a low-key event where
many studios kept their best movies away. -- read full article
AP - Matt Damon kept his cool as he helped distribute food from a truck that got stuck in the mud in a western Haitian town where Hurricane Ike left hundreds of people homeless and hungry.
Reuters - It's not about Shakespeare and not based
on "King Lear," but fans of the Bard may find traces of both in
a new Bollywood film set in modern-day India.
Reuters - Israeli and Palestinian directors at
the Toronto International Film Festival are looking past the
tanks, checkpoints and bombings to find humanity in everyday
people caught up in the violence.
Reuters - With "Towelhead," the
story of a Lebanese-American girl coping with puberty and older
men, writer/director Alan Ball returns to some of the themes he
explored in 1999's "American Beauty."
AP - Judy Davis won more than $8,000 in interest Friday for damages she was awarded from a newspaper that ridiculed her as heartless for opposing a plan to erect floodlights in a park near her Sydney harbor-side home.
AP - Elizabeth Banks has what it takes to be a porn star or first lady. And she'll be strutting her stuff as both on the big-screen within a two-week span.