Goodfellas
AMC is developing a TV series based on Goodfellas, Deadline reports.
Nicholas Pileggi — who wrote the Martin Scorsese mob classic ...
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Ronni Chasen
Noted publicist Ronni Chasen died after being shot several times and crashing her vehicle into a light pole in Beverly Hills, Calif., early Tuesday morning, authorities said.
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While police have not yet named the victim officially, the coroner's office spokesman Ed Winter identified Chasen to TVGuide.com.
Authorities released a statement saying that the victim ...
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Question: When David Hajdu's book Lush Life, about Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's composing partner, was published I remember hearing talk of a biopic. Is there any word on this project?Answer: There is, but it's not encouraging. David Hajdu's 1996 Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, which chronicled Strayhorn's complicated life as an openly gay African-American jazz musician (who penned such standards as "Take the A Train") was optioned by Universal Pictures. Director Irwin Winkler tried to develop it as a film with a Jay Cocks screenplay and with Will Smith and De
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