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• Why is there no great Hollywood soccer movie?
• Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived
• 'Modern Family' producer says iPad episode 'went too far in hindsight'
• Ted Turner wants to save the world and serve it bison
• Postcard from New York: An evening of 'filthy' talk from Neil LaBute
• Summer is now the time for broadcast networks to get serious
• John Noble loves his 'Fringe' madness
• Val Kilmer has neighbors riled

Why is there no great Hollywood soccer movie? Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT The industry includes many passionate fans of the sport, but it has no 'Raging Bull' or 'Hoosiers.' Some insiders cite unique challenges and say it will never happen, others say one will come soon. Graham King has worked with countless A-listers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Diaz and Daniel-Day Lewis, to name just a few. But ask the Oscar-winning producer of "The Departed" which celebrities made him giddy like a star-struck teen, and he won't mention any actor, saying instead it was the players from the Chelsea FC soccer team.

Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT Through the Internet, video games, YouTube, Twitter, et al, original art is sampled and re-envisioned by anyone who can master the computer skills. But where does art end and amateurism begin? It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist; a play, a playwright. You could assume that the work actually erupted more or less full-blown from these folks. In addition, the book, film, musical composition, painting or play was a discrete object or event that existed in time and space. You could hold it in your hands or watch or listen to it in a theater or your living room. It didn't really change over time unless the artist decided to revise it or a performer reinterpreted it.

'Modern Family' producer says iPad episode 'went too far in hindsight' Posted: 05 Jun 2010 05:09 PM PDT A producer of ABC's hit sitcom "Modern Family" said an episode that prominently featured Apple's iPad went overboard in hyping the product.

Ted Turner wants to save the world and serve it bison Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:30 PM PDT Turner brought his message of peace, love and understanding to Hollywood movers and shakers at the Producers Guild of America's second annual Produced By conference being held at the 20th Century Fox lot this weekend.

Postcard from New York: An evening of 'filthy' talk from Neil LaBute Posted: 05 Jun 2010 08:36 PM PDT One seemingly ironclad rule of contemporary theater: All Neil LaBute relationships end horribly. Right? Apparently not.

Summer is now the time for broadcast networks to get serious Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT Broadcast networks used to go easy in the summer. Cable's success changed that. It's one of the great ironies of the TV industry's past decade - while viewers virtually ignore original scripted summer programming from the broadcast networks, they embrace new scripted series from basic-cable networks.

John Noble loves his 'Fringe' madness Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:24 AM PDT "Walter is like a King Lear for television," he says.

Val Kilmer has neighbors riled Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT Locals say the actor and ranch owner is keeping them from Pecos River fishing holes and that he has made ethnic insults in interviews. The ACLU is taking his side. Val Kilmer plays a ponytailed villain in "MacGruber," the comedy film based on a "Saturday Night Live" skit, but lately he seems to have been cast as a real-life bad guy by neighbors in this rural mountain community.

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