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Robert Redford Announces His Retirement

Edit Voa News 12 Nov 2016
Robert Redford says he is planning on retiring from acting soon to focus on directing and on his first love — art ... Redford, who has never won an Oscar for acting despite a storied 50-year career, will not be departing from the big screen any time soon ... He later turned to directing, winning an Oscar for the 1980 film Ordinary People ... ....

Pedestrian killed crossing the street in Davie

Edit Sun Sentinel 12 Nov 2016
A man was killed Friday night when he was hit by a truck while crossing the street in Davie, police said. The incident happened about 9.30 p.m. in the 7400 block of Stirling Road, near�St. Bernadette Catholic Church, Davie Police Sgt. Mark Leone said. The section of the road�where the collision�occurred ... ....

Ang Lee’s new 3-D process immerses viewers in ‘Billy Lynn’

Edit Boston Herald 12 Nov 2016
NEW YORK — “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” marks Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s first film in four years. The Taiwan-born Lee, 62, last scored a popular and critical hit (and his second directing Oscar after “Brokeback Mountain”) with “Life of Pi,” which demonstrated a new, incredibly realistic level of digital cinematography ... So I think it’s great.” ... 18.) ....

Anderson gained attention with his letters to the editor

Edit my SA 12 Nov 2016
Oscar Parley Anderson, who after retiring from the U.S. Postal Service became a frequent letter-writer to local newspapers to share his opinions about the state of his town of Schertz, the country and the politicians who ran both, died Oct. 24 at 84 ... ....

Robert Vaughn, 'Man from U.N.C.L.E.' star, dies

Edit The Arizona Republic 12 Nov 2016
The debonair, Oscar-nominated actor whose many film roles were eclipsed by his hugely popular turn in television's "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," has died. He was 83 ... ....

Robert Vaughn, suave 'Man from UNCLE' star, dies at 83

Edit The State 12 Nov 2016
Robert Vaughn, the debonair, Oscar-nominated actor whose many film roles were eclipsed by his hugely popular turn in television's "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," has died. He was 83. Vaughn died ... ....

Goodman recalls ‘Battle of the Egos’ with Donald Trump

Edit Review Journal 12 Nov 2016
Oscar Goodman was flying pretty high as mayor of Las Vegas and a co-star on “CSI. Crime Scene Investication.” Then he met Donald Trump ... ....

Robert Vaughn, actor in 1960s TV hit ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ dies at 83

Edit The Washington Post 12 Nov 2016
The debonair, Oscar-nominated actor also earned a PhD as a scholar of the mid-century Red Scare ... ....

A Minute With: Amy Adams on 'Arrival,' Awards and 'Disenchanted'

Edit Jakarta Globe 12 Nov 2016
Despite having five Oscar nominations under her belt, actress Amy Adams said she feels "inauthentic" campaigning for herself during Hollywood's awards season, although buzz is building around her latest role as an intuitive linguist in sci-fi film "Arrival." ... ....

Oliver Stone on Donald Trump and the Perils of Cyber Warfare

Edit Variety 12 Nov 2016
LOS CABOS, Mexico – Swinging by Mexico’s 5th Los Cabos Film Festival Friday to present “Snowden,” his biopic about whistleblower Edward Snowden, three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone expressed his surprise at Donald Trump’s election as the next President of the United States. “I said I’d eat my shirt if Trump won and I had to... Read more » ... ....

Suave ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ star

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 12 Nov 2016
NEW YORK  — Robert Vaughn, the debonair, Oscar-nominated actor whose many film roles were eclipsed by his hugely popular turn in television’s “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” has died. He was 83 ... ....

The 4 ways to see 'Billy Lynn's,' and where to catch all 120 frames per second

Edit Mashable 12 Nov 2016
 . LOS ANGELES — No one pushes the technological envelope in Hollywood quite like Ang Lee, the Oscar-winning director of 3D marvel Life of Pi ... ....

Today in History

Edit Seattle PI 12 Nov 2016
In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. In 1946, the Walt Disney movie "Song of the South," controversial for its treatment of the film's black characters, had its world premiere in Atlanta ... Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground ... ....
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