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Ryan Kavanaugh, the film financier whose film credits include “Catch and Release,” has been trying to get law enforcement officials to emulate the title.
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The wiretapping trial of Anthony Pellicano, the accused sleuth to the stars, has offered a close look into the surprisingly easy access to all sorts of spyware.
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Closing arguments will begin in Anthony Pellicano’s Hollywood wiretapping case after a federal judge rejected a defendant’s call for a mistrial.
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Ms. Page, the stepdaughter of Jack L. Warner, a president of the Warner Brothers studio, made her film debut as a Bulgarian newlywed in “Casablanca.”
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Betting that audiences are hungry for nature documentaries, the Walt Disney Company has created a new production banner to deliver two nature films a year starting in 2009.
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A hedge fund manager testified that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private detective accused of wiretapping, had once offered to have a movie producer killed for him.
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A day of testimony in the wiretapping trial of the Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano included industry names in the most embarrassing of contexts.
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Movie theaters are not just for movies anymore. As ticket sales slow, theaters are turning to the Mets and the Met.
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