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EXCLUSIVE: After earning some of the best reviews of his acting career for “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck is ready to make his return behind the camera, and he looks to have zeroed in on his next directing job. We are hearing that Affleck has signed on to direct “The Big Goodbye” for Paramount, an adaptation …
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Character actor Peggy Pope, who played the alcoholic office secretary in the hit comedy movie “9 to 5,” died on May 27 in Fort Collins, Colo. She was 91. Pope’s family announced her passing and plans for a June 27 celebration of life. Pope was born as Florence Margaret Pope in Montclair, N.J., and graduated …
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Anthony James, an actor best known for his work in the Oscar-winning films “In The Heat of the Night” and “Unforgiven,” died on May 26 of cancer in Massachusetts. He was 77. Born Jimmy Anthony, he discovered there was already an actor with that name and created his stage persona of Anthony James, according to …
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Fraser Heston can’t even remember his first — and only — acting role, but that’s because he was only 3 months old at the time. Fraser, now 65, portrayed the baby Moses — who, in the Bible, escapes death when he is set afloat down the Nile River in a basket — in the 1956 …
EXCLUSIVE: After earning some of the best reviews of his acting career for “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck is ready to make his return behind the camera, and he looks to have zeroed in on his next directing job. We are hearing that Affleck has signed on to direct “The Big Goodbye” for Paramount, an adaptation …
