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Kevin Costner has waded into the debate about controversial new movie Death Of A President, insisting director Gabriel Range failed to consider how George W Bush's family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated. The Dances With Wolves star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada at the weekend, where he premiered his new film, The Guardian, alongside the screening of Death of A President. Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in...

Kevin Costner has been revealed as the celebrity accused of performing a sex act while having a massage at a prestigious hotel in Scotland, after a tribunal ruled there was not a strong enough reason to keep his name suppressed. The Hollywood star was accused of taking off his towel during the massage at The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, Fife, in October 2004, exposing himself and then performing a sex act. An earlier legal ruling had prevented his identity being revealed, but the tribunal chairman Nicol Hosie ruled that following widespread newspaper and magazine reports outside Britain, as...

COSTNER: LEAVE MEL ALONE [KJL ] (KJL = Katherine Jean Lopez) An NBC press release: BURBANK, Calif. – February 27, 2004– In an interview with "Access Hollywood," actor Kevin Costner says that people "shouldn't be attacking" Mel Gibson for his film "The Passion of the Christ." The interview airs on "Access Hollywood," Friday, February 27, 2004 (check local listings for time and station). Costner says that Gibson doesn't deserve all the criticism that he is receiving for his film "The Passion of the Christ," which depicts Jesus' last hours. "We shouldn't be attacking a filmmaker like Mel Gibson who, number...

Good Things In August There are two good things to look forward to in the dog days of August. The Little League World Series will be running through Aug. 24, and a lot of it will be broadcast on ESPN or ESPN2. The other good thing is a Kevin Costner Western. I haven't seen the movie, "Open Range," yet, but I have faith in Costner. I have really liked all of the movies he's had control over — "Dances With Wolves," "Waterworld" and "The Postman." I especially liked "The Postman." And he's directing, as well as starring in, his new...

The CBS bosses are hunting some faboulous male type to sit aside Jane Clyson. (On the CBS 'Early Show') What have gotten thrwon around are names that until now will not have known that they were names that have gotten thrown around.Like Peter Gallagher.Handsome, personable, chatty.Yeah, he's in 'Noises Off' So? That's no eternal deal.Like a longtime major time movie box office star who at this millisecond isn't busting box office records.Like ready? Kevin Costner. Talks easily has a Rolo Dex that stretches from here to eternity.