Actor Cheadle to Receive Gotham Award
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Don Cheadle and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" will be honored with Gotham Awards from the Independent Film Project.
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Director Alexander Payne's acclaimed comedy "Sideways" continued its winning ways at the IFP/New York's 14th annual Gotham Awards Wednesday.
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Franco Zeffirelli, the legendary filmmaker  who has directed greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Placido  Domingo, will be the first Italian to receive an honorary  knighthood from Britain Wednesday.
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Daniel Day-Lewis won the best actor award at the British Academy Film Awards Sunday, cementing   his place as an Oscar favorite for his role as a larger-than-life oilman in There Will be Blood.
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Actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle said  world leaders must not be allowed to ignore the war in Darfur,  as they received an award by Nobel peace laureates for their  efforts to help civilians caught up in the conflict.
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Veteran actor Charles Durning is to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; NEW YORK -- Cate Blanchett is set to make her Gotham stage debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Australian actor Heath Ledger is found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence, police in New York say.
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Double Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has been signed up to play the villainous Lex Luther in the new Warner Bros version of 'Superman', the trade magazine 'Variety' reported.
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Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell will play Heath Ledger's character in his unfinished film Doctor Parnassus.
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Australia's prime minister led tributes Wednesday to actor Heath Ledger, the boy from Perth who rose to become a Hollywood heartthrob, after he was found dead in his New York apartment.
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Amy Winehouse has been nominated for the villain of the year.
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Black actors sometimes complain about being cast only as criminals or thugs in movies, but Don Cheadle has beaten that stereotype and earned critical acclaim for his roles in films like Oscar winner "Crash."
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Franco Zeffirelli, the legendary filmmaker who has directed greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Placido Domingo, will be the first Italian to receive an honorary knighthood from Britain Wednesday. The 81-year-old opera lover and director of films "Romeo and Juliet," "La Traviata" and "The Taming of the Shrew" will be honored at a ceremony at the British Embassy in Rome.
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LOS ANGELES  - Aaron Eckhart is in final negotiations to play Harvey Dent/Two-Face in "The Dark Knight," the sequel to "Batman Begins."
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Robert C. Lieber, the president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, will be the deputy mayor for economic development. Edward Skyler, the deputy mayor for administration, will now also serve as deputy mayor for operations.
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Actor Jude Law is to play Hamlet in London's West End under Kenneth Branagh's direction.