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Los Angeles (E! Online) - Truth may be stranger than fiction, but no thriller is scarier than our current economic crisis. At least not according to the suits who run Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The assassination of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez's grape boycott, gay men in China and historian David McCullough are among the subjects of the films vying for Oscar nominations for best documentary short subject.

LOS ANGELES - A judge has ordered the 23-year-old son of actor Ryan O'Neal back to rehab weeks after he and his father were arrested on suspicion of drug possession.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Zac, Vanessa, Corbin and Ashley (we know you don't need their last names, otherwise you probably wouldn't even be reading this) continued their glamorous reign over screaming tweens Tuesday, as the quartet converged on Leicester Square in London, England, for yet another premiere of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - On the cusp of its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday, French director Agnes Jaoui's satirical drama "Let it Rain" has been acquired for U.S. distribution by IFC Films.

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan doesn't want to be on camera, at least not when she's giving a deposition.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini were like a couple of high schoolers last night at Elle's Women in Hollywood Tribute.

DALLAS (Reuters) - In Bill Maher's new film "Religulous," the comedian says he wants his fellow non-believers to "come out of the closet" to counter what he views as religion's dangerous influence on the world.

ATLANTA - When brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick were looking for inspiration for their third feature-length film, they turned to God for help.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway have spied new jobs, Sarah Jessica Parker is on a hiring spree while hubby Matthew Broderick is back on the boards, and Kristen Bell has a new Boy in her life.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If Ridley Scott gave us a new kind of war movie with "Black Hawk Down," where an army unit functioning in total chaos in a hostile city became a collective protagonist, he now engineers a new kind of spy thriller in "Body of Lies," which opens Friday (October 10).

BERLIN - A new film devoted to the violent career of the Red Army Faction has drawn sharp criticism from both the daughter of one of the left-wing German terrorist group's leaders and the daughter of a prominent victim.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - • Heidi Klum's latest runway project involves some seriously scantily clad catwalkers: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show features the likes of Klum, Alessandra Ambrosia, Selita Ebanks, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller and Miranda Kerr "in this holiday infused lingerie runway show" taking place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and airing Dec. 3. Bells won't be the only thing jingling.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For the first time since the Oscars moved to TV in the early 1950s, studios will be able to advertise movies during the telecast of the Academy Awards next year.

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Los Angeles (E! Online) - "I was at a function, and a bunch of political types were there. And John McCain was there. He came up to say hello, I said, 'Look, don't even ask it. I will not be your vice president. I have to be on the top of the ticket.'"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If Cyrus Nowrasteh wants to work for Disney again, he's got a funny way of showing it.

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's biggest annual advertisement for itself — the Academy Awards broadcast — now can carry commercials for movies themselves.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Anne Hathaway didn't hide from personal troubles. Her new film didn't hide from audiences.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Sally Hawkins is relatively unknown in the United States but an acclaimed role in British director Mike Leigh's new film may find her on Hollywood's red carpets this awards season, a prospect she calls "gob-smacking."

RALEIGH, N.C. - Robby Benson knows how it sounds. But his reason for making a movie about the life of a young Billy Graham, the director says, is simple: "I wanted to make a movie about goodness."

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Big doings on the casting couch, what with Hayden Christensen remaining gainfully employed, 90210's Shenae Grimes getting a little extra cigarette money and somebody finally getting Yogi and Boo-Boo a film deal.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Oliver Stone's "W." -- his take on the life and legacy of George W. Bush -- might be the first movie ever to come with footnotes.

MALIBU, Calif. - Actor Nick Nolte jumped out a window and used a hose to fight a fire that broke out in his Malibu home Tuesday, authorities said.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Nicole Kidman's night at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood Tribute will be legendary—literally.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Julie Taymor is gathering blue-blooded Oscar winners and up-and-comers for her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

NEW YORK - You may want to try this at home.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - • Sounds like it's time for Hilary Swank to start working on another Oscar speech. The actress is on the case in Betty Anne Waters, an Erin Brockovich-like drama based on a true story about a woman who fights to clear her brother of a murder he didn't commit. The flick will be helmed by director Tony Goldwyn (best known as the bad guy in Ghost), according to Variety.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A little man is coming to the big screen.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Having watched some of his romances sink like a certain well-known ship, it's understandable that Leonardo DiCaprio has, in the past, expressed his reluctance to drop anchor and settle down.