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Celebrity activist couple, Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed, were presented with the Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch Humanitarian Award on Thursday, November 9, at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville as part of the 7th Annual Napa Valley Film Festival.

Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed Receive the Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch Humanitarian Tribute at the Napa Valley Film Festival

Jarr Co-founders, Monica and David Stevens presented an etched Robert Foley Vineyards, Howell Mountain Cabernet 3Liter, 2013 on stage with a special guest, a pig called Mr Moo who clearly stole the show.

The Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch Humanitarian Award celebrates those individuals who have shown outstanding compassion, advocacy and dedication to animal protection issues. The recipients, actors Ian Somerhalder (Vampire Diaries, Lost) and Nikki Reed (The Twilight Saga, Twilight, Thirteen), exemplify Jarr’s mission to show compassion to all animals in need and by using their unique platform to bring a spotlight to animal...

The chilling murder of a dating service worker by a woman he dated and her jealous boyfriend is profiled tonight on Investigation Discovery’s Detective series. David Stevens, 38, was shot two times in the head by Ronald Barker after his girlfriend Ny Nourn lured David into a trap that left him dead. The night before his death in December 1993 David, a marketing manager at dating service Perfect Match, had slept with Nourn on their first and only date. When Barker found out he flew into a rage and convinced Nourn to join him in a plot to kill David...read more...

Following the mid-70s wave of critically acclaimed Australian cinema, thanks to names like Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Gillian Armstrong, director Bruce Beresford would score his first of several iconic moments in cinematic history with 1980’s Breaker Morant, based on the play by Kenneth G. Ross. The film premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded a Best Supporting Acting accolade for Jack Thompson (a category that no longer officially exists), and began a prolific decade for Beresford, which closed with a controversial Best Picture win at the 1989 Academy Awards with Driving Miss Daisy. Documenting a particularly heinous miscarriage of justice from the country’s military history, Beresford’s title helped established a legacy of commemorative reenactments from his native country and showcases a trio of excellent performances.

Set during the Boer War at the turn of the century in South Africa, a trio of three Australian lieutenants,...

Bruce Beresford says that by 1980 most Australians had forgotten that their countrymen had fought in the Boer War, and this scathing condemnation of England's scapegoating of commonwealth volunteers had a big impact. Stars Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown front a protest from the past, in one of the most respected Aussie Renaissance features of the late '70s. 'Breaker' Morant Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 773 1980 / Color / 1:78 anamorphic widescreen / 107 min. / Street Date September 22, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald Cinematography Don McAlpine Production Design David Copping Film Editor William S. Anderson <Written by Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens from a play by Kenneth Ross Produced by Matt Carroll Directed by Bruce Beresford

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Bruce Beresford's 'Breaker' Morant is one of the stronger entries in the late '70s -- early '80s upsurge of quality movies from Australia and New Zealand.

Does someone know something the royal couple claims they don't? While Prince William and wife Kate have long said they don’t know the sex of their much-awaited baby, a bookmaking firm in the U.K. has received an increase in bets on one particular name. And that is, Charlotte. Coral Bookmakers has slashed the odds in half on the name, reducing it from 12-1 to 6-1, and has amended the odds on the royal tot being a girl to 2-7. As with other bookmakers, such as Ladbrokes, a girl has long been a favorite. "But we’ve seen more...

Does someone know something the royal couple claims they don't? While Prince William and wife Kate have long said they don’t know the sex of their much-awaited baby, a bookmaking firm in the U.K. has received an increase in bets on one particular name. And that is, Charlotte. Coral Bookmakers has slashed the odds in half on the name, reducing it from 12-1 to 6-1, and has amended the odds on the royal tot being a girl to 2-7. As with other bookmakers, such as Ladbrokes, a girl has long been a favorite. "But we’ve seen more...

Some acting careers are made by a single role. Think Brando’s Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Robert DeNiro’s Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973), Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack in the box office behemoth Titanic (1997).

A similar connection can happen on a more personal basis. You watch a movie and an actor — for whatever magical, alchemical reason – clicks with you. You suddenly remember the other times you’ve seen him or her, you want to know more about what they’ve done, what they’re going to do. From that moment, their name in the credits means something to you.

And in that great, romantic way Hollywood dream-making works, they may not even be stars; never were, never will be. But they are somebody you respond to, somebody’s who work touches you.

For me, Charles Durning was one of those actors. At the news of his passing on Christmas Eve,...

Yvonne Stevens, the matriarch of the George Stevens filmmaking family, died May 27 in Hollywood. She was 104.

Stevens met George Stevens at comedian Oliver Hardy's house in 1928, and she was married to the two-time Oscar-winning director from 1930 until they divorced in 1947. Their son is George Stevens Jr., the Emmy-winning producer who founded the American Film Institute.

Yvonne Stevens' mother was Alice Howell, a prominent silent screen comedienne and producer who left vaudeville back east to join Mack Sennett's film company in Hollywood.

Stevens, a classmate of actor Joel McCrea at Hollywood High School, also was a Sennett "bathing beauty." She had small roles in several films in the late 1920s and early '30s.

In addition to George Jr., Stevens is survived by daughter-in-law Elizabeth Stevens; three grandchildren -- Michael Stevens, a film and TV producer, director and writer; documentary producer Caroline Stevens; and David Stevens; and six great grandchildren.