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David E. Diano, a veteran camera operator with credits including Tombstone, The Fast and the Furious, Wedding Crashers and Spider-Man 3, has died. He was 71.

Diano died Jan. 22 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena of coronary issues after a battle with prostate cancer, his wife, still photographer Gemma Lamana, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Diano served as president of the Society of Camera Operators from 2003-04 before deciding not to run for a second term.

“To write that David was a one-of-a-kind friend to those of us who worked with him would be an understatement,” Soc historical chair Michael Frediani said in a statement. “His kindness, artistry and boyish smile endeared him to countess friends and fellow industry colleagues — and that is what set him apart from many,”

Diano shot 17 movies for cinematographer William Fraker, a six-time Oscar nominee, from 1983-2002. Those films included War Games (1983), Murphy’s Romance (1985), Baby Boom (1987), Memoirs of an Invisible Man...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

Today we go down south to talk about Billy Bob Thornton! To do this, we bring in devoted Billy Bob fan, friend, writer, director, and producer Nicholas Gray of Uncompromised Creative.

We have a super-sized B-Side collection today: (deep breath) Homegrown, Daddy and Them, Waking Up in Reno, The Badge, Levity, Chrystal, and Jayne Mansfield’s Car.

Conor makes the observation that Thornton may be a leading man trapped in a character actor’s body, Nicholas marvels at the nuance of Jayne Mansfield’s Car, and I mention liking movies that start with an original sin of sorts. We talk about how Burt Reynolds helped Billy Bob break into the business, the long cultural legs of his film Sling Blade,...

Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on global star Penélope Cruz, who’s delivering lauded performances on multiple platforms, in English and her native Spanish.

Bottom Line: Cruz is a Goya and Oscar-winner (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) who chases challenging material around the globe. This year she and husband Javier Bardem not only opened Cannes with Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish mystery drama “Everybody Knows” (Focus Features) — which went on to rack up over $6.5 million in France — but Cruz transformed herself into blonde Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace for her first-ever foray into television. Ryan Murphy’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) scored 18 Emmy nominations last week including Supporting Actress in a Limited series for Cruz. Next, she’ll play her sixth role with mentor Pedro Almodovar, playing his mother...

Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on global star Penélope Cruz, who’s delivering lauded performances on multiple platforms, in English and her native Spanish.

Bottom Line: Cruz is a Goya and Oscar-winner (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) who chases challenging material around the globe. This year she and husband Javier Bardem not only opened Cannes with Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish mystery drama “Everybody Knows” (Focus Features) — which went on to rack up over $6.5 million in France — but Cruz transformed herself into blonde Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace for her first-ever foray into television. Ryan Murphy’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) scored 18 Emmy nominations last week including Supporting Actress in a Limited series for Cruz. Next, she’ll play her sixth role with mentor Pedro Almodovar, playing his mother...

HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Penelope Cruz.

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Penelope Cruz - "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" Madrid Premiere - Arrivals - Villamagna Hotel - Madrid, Spain

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Penelope Cruz - "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" Madrid Premiere - Arrivals - Villamagna Hotel - Madrid, Spain

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and were commercially successful worldwide.

Sean Penn is in negotiations to produce and star in a film based on the life of surfing icon Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz.According to Variety, Alan and Gabe Polsky will also produce with Penn.Paul Feldsher, who was a producer on the films "The Four Feathers" and "Waking Up in Reno," will write the screenplay.Paskowitz became a cult hero for ditching a successful medical practice and hitting the road in a camper with his wife and nine kids. His family founded the first surf camp in the continental U.S. and is referred to as the "First Family of Surfing."Paskowitz, who is 89, was the subject of Doug Pray's 2008 documentary "Surfwise."Penn was last seen in 2008.s "Milk" which won him his second...

Sean Penn is going back into the ocean to surf some waves! As you know Penn launched his acting career over 30 years ago playing surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in the classic film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The actor is now in negotiations to play surfing icon Dorian "Doc" Pasowitz.

Penn is also set to produce the film based on the eccentric Paskowitz and his family. Also producing are Alan and Gabe Polsky, who recently produced the Werner Herzog-directed Bad Lieutenant reboot.

Variety reports that the Polskys optioned the life rights to the Paskowitz clan, whose nomadic beach existence was recently the subject of Doug Pray's documentary Surfwise. "For the past two decades, producers from Matt Weaver to Graydon Carter have tried unsuccessfully to secure the life rights to the now 89-year-old Paskowitz. The patriarch finally gave his blessing to the Polskys once they were able to attach Penn to the project.

Sean Penn is in talks to star in and produce an as-yet-untitled biopic of surfing legend Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz reports Variety.

Paskowitz was a successful doctor who left his job, hit the road with his rather large family, and founded the first U.S. surf camp not based in Hawaii. Paskowitz sold his life rights to the producers once Penn was attached.

Paul Feldsher ("The Four Feathers," "Waking Up in Reno") will pen the screenplay. Alan and Gabe Polsky are also producing.

Sean Penn is in talks to produce a film based on eccentric surfing icon Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz and his family. Penn is eyeing this as a starring vehicle. Producing are Alan and Gabe Polsky ("Bad Lieutenant" revamp). Paskowitz left his successful medical practice and hit the road with his wife and nine kids, founding the first surf camp in the continental U.S. For the last twenty years, producers from Matt Weaver to Graydon Carter have tried without any luck, to secure the life rights to Paskowitz who is aged 89 now. The patriarch finally gave his blessing to the Polskys once Penn was attached. Paul Feldsher (producer of "The Four Feathers" and "Waking Up in Reno") will write the screenplay.

One of Hollywood's great cinematographers, William Fraker, succumbed to cancer Monday at age 86. While D.P.'s can be cranky, Fraker was known for his affability and exacting standards on sets, from Rosemary's Baby, Bullitt, 1941, Close Encounters and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Tombstone and Heaven Can Wait. A Naval veteran of World War II, Fraker attended USC's School of Cinema under the G.I. Bill. He grew into one of the defining film talents to emerge in the 60s and worked productively well into his 80s: his last film was 2002's Waking Up in Reno. Update: Todd McCarthy remembers Fraker, who he interviewed for his doc Visions of Light. Here's one obit from the Lat plus stories from Fraker's contemporaries from the American Society ...

The ailing actor spoke about his former co-star.

Patrick Swazye has joined the many celebrities publicly mourning the recent loss of actress Natasha Richardson. Swayze, the star of A&E's The Beast—who is battling pancreatic cancer—released a statement to People about Richardson. Richardson and Swayze starred together in 2002's Waking Up In Reno. "It is such a great loss to this community to lose an actress and person such as Natasha. Gifts like her don't come along very often. It's a rare thing in this industry to have someone with so much talent, beauty, and dedication and yet is imbued with such humility. I know for me and many other people, the.

Patrick Swayze has paid tribute to his former co-star Natasha Richardson - insisting "the world will be a different place" without the actress.

The actor - who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year - worked with the tragic star on 2002's Waking Up in Reno.

And Swayze has been left devastated by the loss of Richardson - who died on Wednesday after a fall while skiing on the slopes of Mont Tremblant in Montreal, Canada two days previously had left her with a serious brain injury.

He says, "It is such a great loss to this community to lose an actress and person such as Natasha. Gifts like her don't come along very often. It's a rare thing in this industry to have someone with so much talent, beauty, and dedication and yet is imbued with such humility.

"I know for me and many other people, the world will be a different place without her. My heart goes out to Liam and his two boys, but I'm sure that Natasha's light is shining down on them."...

Sexy actress Charlize Theron is breaking away from her usual glamor roles - she plays the poor "white trash" wife of Patrick Swayze in Wakin' Up In Reno (2000). The comedy centers on two couples on their way to see a monster truck show. Director Jordan Brady says, "Charlize has always been the object of a man's desire in the movies but she wanted a chance to do some broader comedy."...