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• The actor inside Casey Affleck
• ActionFest packs a wallop for Chuck Norris fans
• 'The Phantom' is back -- but you might not recognize him
• TLC's hook on the heartland
• How the Stonewall riots changed history
• The Sunday Conversation: With Daniel Handler
• 'Double Exposure' offers a picture of the celebrity photo shoot

The actor inside Casey Affleck Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT The star of Michael Winterbottom's new film, 'The Killer Inside Me,' was handpicked by the director, who saw in his quiet intensity a link to his character's lethally insular nature. The star of Michael Winterbottom's new film, 'The Killer Inside Me,' was handpicked by the director, who saw in his quiet intensity a link to his character's lethally insular nature.

ActionFest packs a wallop for Chuck Norris fans Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT The film festival in Asheville, N.C., plays to a more muscular aesthetic than Cannes or Sundance. And it has Chuck. Reporting from Asheville, N.C. — They stand four rows deep in the movie theater parking lot, men in leather motorcycle jackets and women in tank tops and tattoos and teenage boys wielding cellphone cameras. They look toward the sky, in part as a symbolic gesture — because heaven is the only place, really, that one should look when a film divinity like Chuck Norris is so near — but also because that's where the man with the jet pack is hovering.

'The Phantom' is back -- but you might not recognize him Posted: 19 Jun 2010 08:15 PM PDT On Sunday, SyFy airs a revival of "The Phantom" in the form of a four-hour mini-series. I caught up with the star, Ryan Carnes, for this edition of Five Questions.

TLC's hook on the heartland Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT The cable channel's new show with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is perhaps its strongest play for a middle-class audience. The cable channel's new show with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is perhaps its strongest play for a middle-class audience.

How the Stonewall riots changed history Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT A bar raid in Manhattan in 1969 sparked a rights movement with international impact a new documentary shows. The summer of 1969, which saw the first moonwalk, Woodstock and the Manson murders, was marked by another watershed moment: a police raid on a Mafia-run Greenwich Village gay bar called the Stonewall Inn that would spark a three-day riot and, in many eyes, launch the gay rights movement. This rebellion — it's been called the "Rosa Parks moment for gays" — and the decades of oppression that led up to it are vividly chronicled in the documentary "Stonewall Uprising."

The Sunday Conversation: With Daniel Handler Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT Daniel Handler is perhaps better known for his pen name, Lemony Snicket, and his bestselling volumes of children's books, "A Series of Unfortunate Events." But another Lemony Snicket creation, illustrated by Handler's wife, Lisa Brown, has been selected for display as part of a museum exhibition; "The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story" is part of the Skirball Cultural Center show "Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books," on view through Aug. 1.

'Double Exposure' offers a picture of the celebrity photo shoot Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT The Monitor: The Bravo series peers into the behind-the-scenes lives of celebrity photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani. Love it! Beautiful! That's hot! Oh my God, that's amazing!

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