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    April 02

    Actors Union Sets Talks With Producers

    The Screen Actors Guild announced it will begin negotiating a new contract with Hollywood producers on April 15.

    Talks are set to start more than two months before SAG's contract expires with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on June 30. A-list actors such as George Clooney and Meryl Streep have pushed SAG to start talks quickly as the industry reconnects with viewers after the recent 100-day writers strike.

    The 120,000-member SAG has said it will focus on getting the producers to provide favorable pay for new forms of media and a larger share of home video revenue.

    It appears Tuesday night's announcement means SAG will beat its fellow actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, to the bargaining table. AFTRA had no immediate comment.

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    The Beverly Hills Playhouse founded and directed by Milton Katselas is a top well respected acting school. Actor Craig Cove credits the BHP intense training programs that enabled him to perform with a complete understanding of the craft. It’s like a top martial arts “Dojo” where you go train for a degreed “Black Belt”. The training is a combination of methods and exercises based mostly on Stanislavski, this requires discipline and dedication. Milton Katselas is an amazing acting teacher and coach. His classes are full of working TV and film actors. Stars attend as well just to stay “sharp”, and to work on new things. Active class alumni such as Jorge Garcia, Doris Roberts, Jenna Elfman, and Jeffrey Tambor are a few that come to mind.

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    March 31

    Film director Dassin dies in Athens aged 96

    Jules Dassin, the American who directed the film "Never on Sunday" and was married to the late Greek actress and culture minister Melina Mercouri, died in an Athens hospital after a short illness on Monday aged 96.

    "Greece grieves the loss of a rare human being, an important creator and a true friend," Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said in a statement. "His passion, energy, fighting spirit and nobility will never be forgotten." Blacklisted in the United States in the 1950s, he fled to Europe, where he met the young, larger-than-life Greek actress at the Cannes film festival and never looked back.

    "I was Greek even before I knew it," Dassin was quoted as saying by Greek state TV.

    Born in Connecticut on December 18 1911, Dassin began working as an actor and theatre producer before becoming assistant to film director Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.

    He was hailed as a bright talent with his first films in the 1940s but his career froze in 1952, when he was named in testimony to the House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as a member of Hollywood's "communist faction."

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    March 30

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    Hip Hop Rap artist Eminems music video of hit song “Slim Shady” features actor Craig Cove in a DUI scene as one of two uniformed police officers. Together they follow and pull over Slim Shady who is erratically driving his blue Chevy Monte Carlo. According to Craig that December night shoot was freezing cold. “Em did his job very well not bothered by the cold at all; after all he is from Detroit. We chatted a bit in wardrobe he and Dr. Dre are very cool to work with.” The video was directed by Phillip Atwell and Dr. Dre with Interscope.

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    "Star Wars" fans picket in support of delayed film

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywoood Reporter) - Angry "Star Wars" fans, aggrieved about editing changes to an upcoming Weinstein Co. comedy inspired by the sci-fi franchise, picketed theaters playing the studio's latest film, with both sides claiming some sort of victory.

    Protesters, organized by a fan group calling itself the 501st, showed up in "Star Wars" gear on Friday at AMC Theatres in New York and Los Angeles that were playing "Superhero Movie."

    They want to draw attention to the fate of "Fanboys," about four diehard "Star Wars" fans who break into George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in order to see "The Phantom Menace" on the eve of its release. The film was originally set for the release last August, but a cancer storyline worried Weinstein, which shot a second version of the film. Fans were outraged.

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    March 27

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    Beatbox artist Rahzel’s music video of hit song “All I know” features actor Craig Cove as the doctor delivering Rahzel at birth. Cove again plays the surgeon that operates on an older “worn out” Rahzel trying to fix his circuit boards.  Rahzel mysteriously clones himself into the surgeon for a new life. The video was directed by Spencer Susser with Black.

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    Tobey Maguire hot for sci-fi "Afterburn"

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tobey Maguire is teaming up with the producer of the "Fast and the Furious" films to bring a new comic book series to the big screen.

    "Afterburn," a sci-fi adventure set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth, revolves around a group of treasure hunters who for the right price extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and England's Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates along the way.

    The first issue of the comic book hit stands in January via upstart Canadian publisher Red 5 Comics. Company founders Scott Chitwood and Paul Ens wrote "Afterburn," which is drawn by Wayne Nichols.

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    March 25

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    Actor Craig Cove was featured as a ringside reporter in the Will Smith biopic film Ali. The film also co-stared Jamie Fox, Mikelty Williams, Joel and professional boxer James Tony as Smokin Joe Frazier. The Ali vs. Frazier fight scenes were surreal to witness and to be a part of, Director Michael Mann did at least fifteen “takes” using multiple cameras at the same time. As a ringside reporter, actor Craig Cove had to “puff” on cigars all day while writing notes on a press tablet and react to the fighting. Press reporters and photographers surrounding the ring had a very nice gig!

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    Thompson Eyes Return to Acting

    Los Angeles (E! Online) - For Fred Thompson, playing a commander in chief is a lot easier than actually being one.

    The erstwhile Law & Order prosecutor turned failed Republican presidential candidate is apparently plotting a return to acting, and has signed with Tinseltown's William Morris Agency to acquire future film and television roles on his behalf.

    Just six months ago, Thompson was the darling of conservatives, who were eager to see the folksy ex-senator from Tennessee with the gruff voice and sharp tongue unify their party the way another former actor-turned-politico, Ronald Reagan, led Republicans to victory more than a quarter of a century ago.

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    March 18

    Craig Cove

    Actor Craig Cove was represented commercially for a time by Scott Wine of Osbrink Talent Agency.

    Craig enjoyed success commercially but decided instead to focus on film, and screenwriting.

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    Cyrus' child is no Destiny

    LOS ANGELES - Hannah Montana is leaving destiny behind.

    Miley Cyrus, whose given name is Destiny Hope Cyrus, has filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court to change her full legal name to Miley Ray Cyrus.

    The 15-year-old singer and TV star is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, who filed the papers last Friday with wife Leticia. Her father writes in the filing that the request was "to make her commonly used name the same as her legal name."

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    March 16

    Craig Cove

    Actor Craig Cove landed his first theatrical agent Mary Grady during the twilight of her career. Mary had a long list of successful clients during her many years as an agent. Mary acted as an agent and manager guiding Craig along to help the then “green” actor to get his “chops” down, and learn the business. Craig has said that Mary Grady has a heart of gold and did a lot for him. Mary decided to retire and sell her agency MGA, after suffering the loss of her daughter actress Lani O’Grady.

     

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    `Drunk Enough' puts a metaphor on stage

    NEW YORK - Talk about the need for couples counseling.

    "Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?" may be a great title, but Caryl Churchill's two-character relationship drama is more metaphor than play.

    This stylized, elliptical evening of conversation, which opened Sunday at the Public Theater, is awash in pointed, pingpong dialogue: single words or short phrases that ricochet between two men as they examine, with gradually diminishing returns, what they mean to each other.

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    March 12

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    Actor Billy Mumy known for the role of Will Robinson in the TV series

    Lost in Space was a Hamilton high school class mate of future actor

    Craig Cove. They had lots of conversations about music which is another

    one of Billy’s passions. Craig had family that worked at “the film studios”

    so “show business” people were not unusual to him. Some students would stare a lot at Billy or call him Will Robinson. Billy and Craig would laugh and joke about it sometimes. Occasionally, Angela who played Penny on the series would pick up Billy after school in her new white Pontiac Trans Am. Angela would park away from people behind campus to avoid attention. Billy wanted to be treated like a normal everyday kid. Now

    and then Billy can be found at McCabes Music in Santa Monica.

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    Review: `Funny Games' not worth playing

    Here's what's funny about writer-director Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," a nearly identical English-language remake of his own 1997 thriller set in Austria:

    Haneke wants to condemn Hollywood pop culture for reveling in gratuitous, graphic violence, and he intentionally places the most brutal acts of his sadistic hostage drama just outside the frame. Yet the violence is still there — it's completely germane to the story — and even though you can't see it, it still achieves the same sort of unsettling effect.

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    March 10

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    Actor Jay Arlen Jones known for such films as The Patriot and Eight Legged was a neighborhood buddy of future actor Craig Cove during high school in Santa Monica California. Years later, Jay and Craig would work together as mechanics in a GM Good Wrench commercial. They had no idea each other had been cast in the project until they arrived on set, that was Craig’s first SAG job as a principal actor gaining full eligibility.

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    'Girls Gone Wild' boss heads to Florida

    RENO, Nev. - "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis is being released from a Nevada jail so he can return to Florida to face charges related to the filming of underage girls.

    His lawyer told a federal judge in Reno on Monday that Florida has agreed to lift its no-bail arrest warrant against the filmmaker, who is being held here on federal tax fraud charges. Francis has amassed a fortune marketing videos of young women, posing bare-breasted and in provocative situations.

    Francis, accompanied by his lawyers, was to travel to the East Coast on Tuesday, and appear in a Panama City, Fla., courtroom the following day to resolve charges from the 2003 filming of girls during spring break, defense lawyer Fred Atcheson said during a brief hearing before U.S. Magistrate Robert McQuaid.

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    March 05

    Craig Cove

    The Beverly Hills Playhouse founded and directed by Milton Katselas

    is a top well respected acting school. Actor Craig Cove credits the BHP intense training programs that enabled him to perform with a complete

    understanding of the craft. It’s like a top martial arts “Dojo” where you go train for a degreed “Black Belt”. The training is a combination of methods and exercises based mostly on Stanislavski, this requires discipline and dedication. Milton Katselas is an amazing acting teacher and coach.

    His classes are full of working TV and film actors. Stars attend as well

    just to stay “sharp”, and to work on new things. Active class alumni such as

    Jorge Garcia, Doris Roberts, Jenna Elfman, and Jeffrey Tambor are a few that come to mind.

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    March 04

    A Second Helping of SPIDERTRON

    The beauty of a film made for just a few thousand dollars is that it doesn't take much for it to break even.

    By FilmStew Staff, FilmStew.com The topic of Carter Soles' PhD thesis at the University of Oregon is low-budget, independent filmmaking. And though his sci-fi spoof Spidertron is not his dissertation, it very well could be.

    He has taken the interior of a Volkswagen bus and turned it into a spaceship cabin; QVC piping purchased at Home Depot has been transformed into laser guns (and the sound they make in the film has led to the name of his company, Fleem Productions); an "Astrocompass" is actually a regular compass stuck onto an old Gameboy. And perhaps best of all, the villain of the piece – Lord Vexor, ruler of the titular planet – sports a costume for which truck floor mats make up the armor and a pleather shower curtain stands in as a cape.

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    March 03

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    Hip Hop Rap artist Eminem’s music video of hit song “Slim Shady” features

    actor Craig Cove in a DUI scene as one of two uniformed police officers.

    Together they follow and pull over Slim Shady who is erratically driving his blue Chevy Monte Carlo. According to Craig that December night shoot was

    freezing cold. “Em did his job very well not bothered by the cold at all; after all he is from Detroit. We chatted a bit in wardrobe he and Dr. Dre are very cool to work with.” The video was directed by Phillip Atwell and Dr. Dre with Interscope. Read Full News

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