Clooney books two crime projects for 2008
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LOS ANGELES  - George Clooney has signed on to two high-profile projects with Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Independent Pictures.
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George Clooney will direct and star in the McCarthy-era drama "Goodnight, and Good Luck."
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More murders and robberies in 2006 sent U.S. violent crimes higher for the second straight year, the FBI said on Monday, with the increase blamed on gangs, youth violence, gun crimes and fewer police on beats.
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Violent crime has fallen for the first time in eight years, but drug-linked offences and robberies are on the rise, according to Home Office figures released Thursday.
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Two new story collections explore young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages.
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George Clooney's and his abettors heisted a whopping &#36;39.2 million over   the weekend, according to final studio estimates Monday.
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Actor George Clooney has slammed the current Hollywood scene by saying that they don't make "masterpieces" anymore. He said the golden era was in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Arts & entertainment: Former US vice-president working on new book about environment as sequel to Oscar-winning film.
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Hrithik Roshan intends to work more this year and combine business with fun.
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The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006, marking the first sustained increase in homicides, robberies and other serious offenses since the early 1990s, according to an  FBI report to be released Monday.
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George Clooney plays a burned out  &quot;fixer&quot; for a New York law firm in his latest movie, which  tackles corporate corruption, personal greed and the moral  dilemmas people face at the workplace every day.
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Looking ahead to 2008, here are three subjects we hope to hear more about--and a few we'd like to hear less about.
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Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence.
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A couple of odd shows are planned for the Los Angeles Opera's '08- 09 season.  First there's consummate New Yorker Woody Allen, who has agreed to fly to L.A.
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Oscar-winning actor George Clooney says that Hollywood is no longer making great films.
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John Krasinski, one of  the stars of NBC's "The Office," is in negotiations to join  George Clooney and Renee Zellweger in "Leatherheads," a 1920s  football romantic comedy that Clooney is directing.
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LOS ANGELES  - The specter of Phil Spector will haunt Hollywood well into 2008.