December 2000

Actor Jason Robards dies of cancer
Jason Robards' stellar 40 years on the silver screen didn't extinguish his first love for the stage, say friends who remember the actor's flair before a live audience.

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Las Vegas critics fete 'Erin,' 'Gladiator'
"Erin Brockovich" nabbed two of the top awards, best picture and best director for Steven Soderbergh as the Las Vegas Film Critics society announced its 2000 award winners.

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'Cast Away' tops box office
"Cast Away," starring Tom Hanks as a man stranded on an island for four years, was the top film over the four-day holiday weekend.

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Canada props Lee flick
Canada's top film critics named Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as the best film of 2000 on Wednesday.

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'Grinch' steals year's boxoffice
All the green racked up by Universal's "The Grinch" proved too much for Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 2" as The Grinch became the top grosser this year.

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'Traffic' ends Soderbergh's big year
For those who have wondered what ever happened to that guy who made "sex, lies and videotape," the past couple of years make for a resounding reply.

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Bullock uninjured in plane mishap
A plane carrying actress Sandra Bullock and three other people missed a runway and crashed at the Jackson Hole Airport early Wednesday.

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'Gladiator,' 'Traffic' top Globe nods
The Roman epic "Gladiator" and the drug war drama "Traffic" led the motion picture Golden Globe nominations Thursday with five each.

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Steve Martin to host Oscars
A wild and crazy guy will be host of next year's Oscar awards. Steve Martin will succeed Billy Crystal at the 73rd Academy Awards on March 25.

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Cheadle to appear in 'Rush Hour 2'
Don Cheadle, who co-stars in Universal Pictures "The Family Man" for director Brett Ratner, has reteamed with the helmer on a cameo role in "Rush Hour 2."

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Sean Connery fights political party
Sean Connery accused the Labor Party government of deliberately blocking him from making donations to a rival political party. Connery is prevented from making donations because he is based in the Bahamas and is not registered to vote.

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Diaz scares off Rome hotel thieves
Don't mess with Cameron Diaz. The actress managed to scare off a pair of thieves from her Rome hotel room Friday night.

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Critics honor 'Crouching Tiger'
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has voted the martial arts romance "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" the best picture of 2000.

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Gibson romances way to top of box office
Mel Gibson has stolen the top box office spot from the Grinch. "What Women Want," Gibson's comedy about a chauvinistic ad exec who can suddenly read women's minds, debuted as the No. 1 movie.

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Crowe is magazine's top entertainer
For his role in the summer blockbuster "Gladiator" and his romance with "Proof of Life" co-star Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe was named the biggest star of the year by Entertainment Weekly.

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Another Good Year For Actors
The Screen Actors Guild reported record earnings by its members during 1999, a total of nearly $1.66 billion, up 1.3 percent from the previous year.

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Forget Green Eggs; It's Green Legs That Count
Three new releases failed to arrest the streaking Grinch Who Stole Christmas, which again held the number-one spot at the box office.

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'Quills' takes top movie honors
The Marquis de Sade drama "Quills" received top honors from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, kicking off this year's awards season.

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Gere brings Christmas to rural Pa.
It'll be Christmas in March for a small town in rural Pennsylvania. Merchants have been asked to leave their holiday decorations hanging for the five weeks of location filming of "The Mothman Prophecies," starring Richard Gere.

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Jolie hopes to score high as video game heroine
Angelina Jolie is nervous. The Oscar-winning, headline-grabbing actress is actually worried about how her turn as popular video game heroine Lara Croft will be received when the movie version of "Tomb Raider" hits theaters in June.

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Famke Janssen to star in T3?
Although rumors had recently been swirling that WWF star Chyna would take on Arnold in "Terminator 3," Variety star Famke Janssen is being wooed for the gig as a female killing machine.

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Sundance 2001 takes shape
Several major premieres are shaping up for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, including the opening-night film, Paramount Classics' "My First Mister," the feature directorial debut by actress Christine Lahti.

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Stars tapped for DGA Honors
Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Shirley MacLaine, David Chase and Sigourney Weaver are slated to serve as presenters at the second annual Directors Guild of America Honors.

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Grinch steals top box office spot
With little more than Thanksgiving leftovers to pick from, moviegoers again let the Grinch steal the box office during a traditionally slow weekend for Hollywood.

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People's Choice nominees announced
Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks lead nominees for the People's Choice Awards. New TV shows starring Bette Midler and Geena Davis also fared well.

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Angelina Jolie enjoyed Cambodia
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie had an epiphany while wrapping up a week of filming at Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex. "The world I live in most of the time is very, very small."

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