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A Hollywood nursing home where former stars and movie workers spent their final years has become embroiled in a legal battle over plans to close it down. The Motion Picture Country House was set up with donations from stars to look after elderly actors and unsung industry heroes. Among those treated there were Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan) and DeForest Kelley -- Dr McCoy from ' Star Trek '.  

A Hollywood nursing home where a string of former film stars and movie workers have spent their final years has become embroiled in legal battle over plans to close it down. The Motion Picture Country House was set up six decades ago with donations from stars to look after elderly actors and unsung industry heroes including soundmen, lighting technicians and grips. Among the famous names to be treated there are Johnny Weissmuller, best known for playing Tarzan, and Oscar-winning actress Mary Astor was  

Although interracial romances in films are definitely not the rarity they once were when movies like 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' or '100 Rifles' hit the screen, they are still fairly uncommon. So it was a surprise to see that in the new romantic comedy 'Our Family Wedding,' America Ferrera and Lance Gross play a Mexican woman and an African-American man in love. Considering that most movies featuring interracial lovers include one white partner, it was a welcome change to explore how two minorities w  

To describe "Our Family Wedding" as an offshoot of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is undoubtedly an insult to the 1967 Stanley Kramer film. Perhaps my memory isn't as sharp as it once was, but I fail to recall the original picture containing a scene in which a goat, jacked up on a spilled bottle of Viagra, endeavors to dry-hump an understandably confused leading character. Again, perhaps that's my mind playing tricks on me.  

They say that when you marry, there are five people in bed with you. Aside from your wife (hopefully) you must make room for your parents and hers. This is realistic.  

With the Oscars upon us on Sunday, Academy Awards buffs can check out several of the nominees at various symposiums this weekend. On Thursday, the academy presents the Oscar-nominated animated feature symposium; scheduled for Saturday morning is the foreign-language film award nominees' symposium, followed by the makeup artists and hairstylist symposium in the afternoon. All events are at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.  

Usually when somebody tells you that you're about to watch a movie with a political or social agenda, you prepare yourself for a gut wrenching documentary or some heavy dramatic material. But what you might not expect is a horror movie about a small town gone berserk -- and that's exactly what Participant Media is counting on. In an article in the New York Times, Participant's President (and former president of eBay) Ricky Strauss spoke about the companies plan to make the world a better place through rel  

Wyclef Jean will be honored with an NAACP Vanguard Award at the 41st NAACP Image Awards Friday, for his unparalleled humanitarian efforts in the wake of the massive 7.0 earthquake that ravaged his homeland of Haiti January 12. NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said the organization is proud to honor the Grammy Award-winning Fugees alum with this year's Vanguard Award for his continued activism and dedication. The NAACP Vanguard Award is presented to a person whose groundbreaking work increases under  

Recently, acclaimed director and noted crazy person Werner Herzog held classes teaching people how to make movie his way. This included tutorials on lock-picking and permit-forging, just as a couple of examples. This mentality may lead to a filming experience that is less than ideal but it also leads, on many occasions, to some great movies.