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The Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards will honor the cast of New Line Cinema's "Hairspray" with the "Hollywood Ensemble Acting of the Year Award -- Musical/Comedy." "Hairspray" features the all-star ensemble of John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, and eighteen-year-old newcomer Nikki Blonsky in her professional debut.
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For the history buff on your shopping list, the themes of war and revolution are eternally popular. This year's crop of historical fiction brings two notable entries in the annals of the American Revolution. Former president Jimmy Carter's The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War, explores the less-familiar territory of the Southern battlefields: the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. It follows the Pratt family's migration southward and is partly based on Carter's family history (Simon and Schuster, 480 pages, $27).
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NEW YORK - Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stonewill direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on Sept. 11, 2001. Nicolas Cage, who won a best-actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas," will star as Port Authority police Sgt. John McLoughlin. McLoughlin and fellow officer William J. Jimeno became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers.
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The Labor Department reported that only 57,000 new jobs were created last month, less than expected and far fewer of what is needed to erase job losses in the Bush recession, Edwards said. Economist have said that the economy needs to add 400,000 jobs a month over the next year to replace the three million private-sector jobs lost in the last three years, to sustain the recovery, he said.
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It only takes a year or two to descide the outcome of a format war. Consumers will want a winner before most buy. It will take 6 to 8 months between technology launches. It will take one to two years by Sony's own admission after Blue-ray's launch for there to be a price parity. By then Sony will have an up hill battle.
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Oscar®-winning production designer John Myhre will be honored with the Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the Hollywood Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Oct 23. Mr. Myhre was production designer on DreamWorks' upcoming "Dreamgirls." He has won Academy Awards for his work on "Chicago" and "Memoirs of a Geisha." Click here for details.
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