MPAA to Fight "Fair Market" BillA bill that would have the effect of barring studios from selling movies to their sibling TV or cable networks for less than their fair market value was approved by a California senate committee on Tuesday and now moves on for consideration by the senate as a whole. Senator Sheila Kuehl, who authored the bill, said, "Studios should not be allowed to undervalue t...
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Missing NY rev. found at Ohio strip club Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club.A police officer patrolling the K.C. Lounge parking lot Friday morning in the Dayton suburb of Riverside spotted out-of-state license plates on 46-year-old Craig Rhodenizer's car.The FBI and New York authorities had been searching for Rhode...
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As you may or may not know, there's a big hoohah over companies who offer "clean" or "Family" versions of PG13 and R rated films on cassette or DVD. The studios claim (and i tend to agree) that it's illegal to sell a re-edited version of an existing work without authorisation, even if you're officially selling the original tape or disk and just "giving away" your censored dversion.Well, like s...
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Prosecutors have again dropped charges against a man accused of shooting Ray Davies during a holdup in the French Quarter, and for the same reason: Davies wasn't in court.The lead singer and co-founder of The Kinks said prosecutors notified him only a few days earlier that trial was scheduled for Thursday. He just didn't have time to get to New Orleans from London, he told The Times-Picayune."I...
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As you may or may not know, there's a big hoohah over companies who offer "clean" or "Family" versions of PG13 and R rated films on cassette or DVD. The studios claim (and i tend to agree) that it's illegal to sell a re-edited version of an existing work without authorisation, even if you're officially selling the original tape or disk and just "giving away" your censored dversion.Well, like s...
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MPAA to Fight "Fair Market" BillA bill that would have the effect of barring studios from selling movies to their sibling TV or cable networks for less than their fair market value was approved by a California senate committee on Tuesday and now moves on for consideration by the senate as a whole. Senator Sheila Kuehl, who authored the bill, said, "Studios should not be allowed to undervalue t...
More >
Prosecutors have again dropped charges against a man accused of shooting Ray Davies during a holdup in the French Quarter, and for the same reason: Davies wasn't in court.The lead singer and co-founder of The Kinks said prosecutors notified him only a few days earlier that trial was scheduled for Thursday. He just didn't have time to get to New Orleans from London, he told The Times-Picayune."I...
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Missing NY rev. found at Ohio strip club Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club.A police officer patrolling the K.C. Lounge parking lot Friday morning in the Dayton suburb of Riverside spotted out-of-state license plates on 46-year-old Craig Rhodenizer's car.The FBI and New York authorities had been searching for Rhode...
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