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8 July 2008 2:22 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

It took all of 19 days for Hollywood to jump on the idea to realize a film based on the life of the recently deceased "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert was necessary. Defamer found a casting call for the role of Maureen Orth, the wife of Russert, on Craigslist with the following: Small independent New York based film company is searching for the role of Maureen Orth, the wife of the late Tim Russert. The film will explore the last 24 hours of Russert's life and Golden Globe winner Randy Quaid is set to play the role of Tim Russert. Randy Quaid must be hurting for cash if he is willing to jump on this one. I guess dropping his lawsuit against the Brokeback Mountain producers was a bad move on his wallet. However, if you are looking for this film in theaters stop right now, the casting post alone tells us enough,

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2 June 2008 10:32 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

An IRS tax examiner in Cincinnati has been charged with snooping on the tax records of more than 200 film and TV personalities and sports stars, The Smoking Gun website reported today (Monday). In a misdemeanor criminal complaint posted on the TSG website, authorities charged 56-year-old John Snyder with accessing the computerized tax records of such celebrities as Eddie Albert, Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, Timothy Bottoms, Chevy Chase, John Cleese, directors Joel and Ethan Coen (whose names appeared as "Cohen"), Sally Field, Penny Marshall, Randy Quaid, and Vanna White. The complaint said that Snyder accessed their tax records "for which no business-related purpose could be identified" and that when confronted with evidence of his spying, he confessed, "stating that he did so out of curiosity."

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5 May 2008 7:19 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Stephen Saito

[For complete coverage of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, check out Ifc's Tribeca page.]

It's typical to assume when you sit down with a director that they have a love of film, but in James Mottern's case, his enthusiasm for the medium is infectious. When asked why he cast the perennially underrated Michelle Monaghan as the lead in his first film, "Trucker," he'll simply ask in return, "Did you see 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'?" That leads to a conversation about the little-seen 2005 drama "Winter Solstice" and the way Monaghan caught his eye in the background of a scene, and the next thing you know, you're talking about the way her eyes crossed in a segment for "North Country." That attention to detail is what might also be most impressive about Mottern's nuanced directorial debut, which premiered at this year's the Tribeca Film Festival. Though he'll rattle off his influences and the films he loves from the 1970s with reckless abandon,

Stephen Saito

3 articles from 2008