Mayor's offer to film movie backfires
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When moviemakers told Gallatin,   Tennessee, Mayor Don Wright they wanted to use his office to   film a scene with a superheroine, he kindly obliged.
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By Bob Curtright, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 5--Hollywood wants to keep you from recording its movies at home and playing them on a laptop or iPod.
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Robert De Niro was a no-show at his scheduled appearance to promote a film festival he founded. The American actor failed to appear with Rome authorities Friday, hours after he refused to accept an honor from the city of Milan, angering the mayor.
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Mayor Thomas M. Menino's quest for new restaurant and telecommunications tax powers for Boston ran into a buzzsaw of business opposition yesterday.
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By TOM GALLAGHER  For the record, I will insist that formal discussions about allegations made against me by Mayor Lionel Rivera occur in public and be open to public participation. The issues bear on matters of ethics and values of your elected officials; the people have a right to know.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: They chose a good week to launch a film about loss of rights and liberties - but the basic premise simply does not stand up.
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Sacramento -- The Schwarzenegger administration offered a counterproposal on how to pay for the Bay Bridge&#39;s $2.3 billion cost overruns Thursday, but local lawmakers immediately rejected the plan as time was running out for a solution.
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Multiplexes do not want to release the two big movies that released today.
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It would be impossible, in a short letter, to counter every argument made in your newspaper over the past few days lambasting Mayor Rocky Anderson. The short response is that Mayor Anderson is beholden to the constituents who elected him.
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Some are starting to wonder whether the mayor's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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Films become more politicized as filmmakers seek to influence the upcoming election.
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Rwandan Jean-Pierre Sagahutu always  wanted to visit New York but he has mixed feelings now that  he&#39;s in the city to talk about a movie he worked on that  depicts the genocide in his country in 1994.
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Celebrity photographers say a new movie misrepresents them, and that hurts their feelings.
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Now that Rocky has declared himself a lame duck mayor, a class act would be for him to resign. The City Council could appoint an interim mayor and some progress could be made. Salt Lake City could pay Rocky his full salary while he rides his bike into the sunset or sunrise.
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By Ihosvani Rodriguez, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 21--HOLLYWOOD -- A $500 million project that critics say would worsen traffic in one of the busiest areas of the city received initial approval by the city commission on Wednesday.
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Mayor Anthony Williams, pushing for baseball on the Anacostia, has canceled a meeting Monday with the D.C. Council he must sway.
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It may be the first of a series of content agreements between a prospective technology provider for video rental outlets and a major studio. But what's even more interesting is what the agreeing parties refuse to say about it.