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When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the old "Kindergarten Cop" himself, accused the Legislature of acting like kindergarteners when the special session on the state's financial mess ended Tuesday in a rash of partisan name-calling and finger-pointing, he wasn't exactly being fair. The legislators were acting like politicians, who, unlike many 5-year-olds, really don't play well together. Take, for example, the Democrats' plan to raise money to close the budget gap. Schwarzenegger, after years of opposing any new taxes, had finally admitted that cuts alone couldn't solve the problem and braved the outrage of his fellow Republicans by proposing a 1-1/2 cent...

Giant shape-shifting robots invaded the Antelope Valley this week as a production crew for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" shot scenes for the action sequel at a Palmdale quarry. The crew arrived Monday and was slated to stay through today, filming at Service Rock Quarry, at Palmdale Boulevard and 75th Street East, and at Antelope Valley Aggregate on Avenue T in Littlerock. The quarry is doubling as an excavation site in an action sequence featuring a helicopter, pyrotechnic explosions, wind machines, debris and gunfire. "Transformers" crew members are occupying a large base camp with rows of trailers, trucks and cars,...

Tobey Maguire will be back -- in black -- for "Spider-Man 3." Sony Pictures released Friday a teaser poster of Maguire wearing a black Spidey suit for the next installment in the blockbuster film series. Targeted for a May 4, 2007, release, the film stars Maguire, returning for another spin as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, as well as Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and James Franco as Harry Osborne. Sam Raimi is also back to direct his third Spidey film. The studio announced previously that Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace would be playing villains in the film. Sony said in...

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) The team behind "10.5" has reassembled to once again disassemble the North American continent. Filming on "10.5: Apocalypse," the sequel to NBC's successful 2004 disaster miniseries, began last week in Montreal, with Kim Delaney, Beau Bridges and David Cubitt reprising their roles and the same behind-the-camera team in place as well. There's no official word on an airdate yet, but given the start date, "Apocalypse" could possibly be ready to go by November sweeps. "We are shooting this sequel on digital, which is allowing us to achieve a whole new level of visual effects and style that...

Among those in their glory Monday at the capture of Saddam Hussein was movie director John Milius, an unapologetic traditionalist who has long contended he is blacklisted by liberal Hollywood for his love of the military. The Army's 4th Infantry Division, which used 600 troops to capture Hussein, apparently borrowed the operation's code name — Red Dawn — from Milius' 1984 Cold War drama of that name. In the flick, Soviet troops invade America, only to be repelled by a resistance movement coordinated by a group of Colorado high school students.

LOS ANGELES, July 15 — Miramax Films will take the unusual and potentially risky move of releasing "Kill Bill," the much-anticipated Quentin Tarantino martial arts action-adventure film, as two movies, the first to open in the fall. Miramax will in effect be taking a three-hour film with a 200-page script and turning it into a serial. Harvey Weinstein, a co-founder of Miramax, which is financing the film, said in an interview on Monday that the first installment would be in theaters on Oct. 10. The second release date is in still being negotiated, but it could be two to six...

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HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICABush equated with Hitler in 'Matrix' sequel?Image of president shown with dictator in discussion of evil Posted: May 22, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Joe Kovacs © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Is President Bush equated with Adolf Hitler in the science-fiction flick "The Matrix Reloaded"? The question is being asked in connection with a scene in the new movie where images of Bush and the German dictator are displayed during a discussion of evil in the world. Adolf Hitler "If they're saying our president is in the same league as Adolf Hitler, then I don't want to see this movie," says Mark...