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| Heath Ledger's hometown to name $87 million theater after him (The Pantagraph) |
| PERTH, Australia -- The Australian hometown of the late actor Heath Ledger named a theater in his honor Tuesday for his commitment to acting. The $87 million, 575-seat Heath Ledger Theater in Perth is a fitting tribute because Ledger was always supportive of other young actors, Western Australia state Premier Alan Carpenter said at a naming ceremony. |
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| Helping Hands (The Buffalo News) |
| When Tom Fontana was among several Western New Yorkers working as a writer in Hollywood in the 1980s, he often experienced a foolish assumption about his hometown. “I was told there has to be a Buffalo [writers] Mafia,” he recalled recently. “You all must help each other.” At the time, Western New Yorkers Anthony Yerkovich (“Miami Vice”), David Milch (“Hill Street Blues”), Patrick Hasburgh (“21 ... |
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| Western extras play bit parts in new Egyptian film (Johnson City Press) |
| CAIRO, Egypt — A motley group of foreigners — English teachers, students of Arabic, even a journalist — gathered on a recent chilly night in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, brought together by a love of cinema, curiosity and a furtive hope of catching a glimpse of Omar Sharif. |
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| Rare self-portraits of Bacon bring a high price (Miami Herald) |
| A rare set of three works by painter Francis Bacon was sold Monday by Christie's auction house in London for $34.5 million. Bacon painted the Three Studies for a Self Portrait in Paris in 1975, beginning a series of self-portraits he painted around that time. It was bought by an unnamed buyer in 1976 and has since never been seen in public. |
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| Customer Service (Brandon Sun) |
| PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The 43rd International Film Festival kicked off in the western Czech spa of Karlovy Vary on Friday with the presentation of its top award to U.S. screen legend Robert De Niro. |
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