APTN 2000 ENTERTAINMENT DAILY NEWS (AMERICAS EARLY)
AP-APTN-2000: US Hung
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:US Hung- REPLAY HBO's latest comedy series 'Hung' premieres
LENGTH: 06:57
FIRST RUN: 0600
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TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: APTN/HBO
STORY NUMBER: 610723
DATELINE: Los Angeles, 24 June 2009.
LENGTH: 06:57
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SHOTLIST (including transcript):-
AP Television
Los Angeles, 24 June 2009
1. Wide exterior of the Paramount Theater on the studio lot
2. Medium of backdrop
3. Wide of arrivals
4. Fashion shot Thomas Jane
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Jane/Actor, on the synopsis:
"It's about a guy trying to survive the times, you know? Here's a guy who's an all American guy. A relatively good looking guy, talented, baseball player, played a season for the Braves. Married his high school sweet heart, home coming queen, had a couple of kids, travelling around the country, he's got it made. This is America for God's sake."
HBO
6. TV clip: "Hung"
AP Television
Los Angeles, 24 June 2009
7. Camera cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Jane/Actor:
"He's trying to hang on, to what is left of his American dream. And that's a house, and his two kids. And there is a little house fire, he burns down half his damn house, he's living in a tent in the backyard, his kids can no longer sleep with him. So he ends up doing what any civilized American man would do, he starts selling his penis for money."
9. Camera cutaway
10. Fashion shot Ann Heche
11. Anne Heche speaks to reporter
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Heche/Actor:
"Jessica is a girl who, you know it's kind of little bit of the story of Jack and Diane, she is an American kid in Detroit, and fell in love with a boy named Ray and then they grew up. And then things weren't as wonderful as she thought they were and not as wonderful as she would continue to like them to be. So she lives a little in that bubble."
HBO
13. TV clip: "Hung"
AP Television
Los Angeles, 24 June 2009
14. Jane Adams poses for photographers
15. Jane Adams speaks to reporter
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Adams/Actor:
(Reporter: "High five, very empowering.")
Jane: "Oh good, good, it is empowering. It's empowering. It's a little empowering. I'm selling his ass. Selling his ass."
(Reporter: "Is it going for a pretty penny?")
Jane: "It's going to go for a pretty penny, we hope."
HBO
17. TV clip: "Hung"
AP Television
Los Angeles, 24 June 2009
18. Jane Adams speaks to reporter
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Adams/Actor:
(Reporter: "Do we see anything?)
Jane: "I see it all the time."
(Reporter: "And?")
Jane: "It's awesome. What a great job I have. What a great job. Thomas Jane in the bathtub, Thomas Jane in the, my mock apartment running around naked. He loves to be naked."
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Jane/Actor:
"I am my own stunt cock. I am my own stunt cock. Fortunately things look bigger on film. Things look bigger on film, that's all I got to say."
21. Rhea Perlman speaks to reporter
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Rhea Perlman/Actor:
"I guess he didn't have to, I wonder did he have to audition that way? (Laughs) Because how do we know? Oh my God. I never thought of that. Poor dude, I don't know, oh geez. (Laughs.)"
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Jane/Actor:
(Reporter: "What in the world did the audition consist of for this role?")
Thomas: "I don't know, I'd say it was a little bit of type casting. But I try to avoid it, but in this business it just keeps getting harder and harder...I don't know."
HBO
24. TV clip: "Hung"
AP Television
Los Angeles, 24 June 2009
25. Charlie Saxton and Sianoa Smit-Mc-Phee pose for photographers
26. Charlie Saxton speaks to reporter
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Saxton/Actor:
"But it is definitely laid back, and a totally fun atmosphere, but getting the work done but also you're on a show about a guy with a big penis sop. (Laughs) You kind of have to have fun and be light hearted about it all in way."
28. Sianoa Smit-Mc-Phee speaks to reporter
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Sianoa Smit-Mc-Phee/Actor:
"You want me to describe it? I don't know if I can. This is hung, 'Hung', that is what hung is. Everyone knows what it is."
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Adams/Actor:
"The next big thing. That is what we just figured out what hung is. It's the next big thing."
31. Cast photo
"HUNG" PREMIERES IN L.A.
HBO celebrated the premiere of its latest addition to the line-up, "Hung" on Wednesday (24JUN09) in Los Angeles.
The offbeat comedy is about a well-endowed schoolteacher-come-escort named Ray Drecker.
"It's about a guy trying to survive the times, you know?" said the show's star Thomas Jane. "Here's a guy who's an all American guy. A relatively good looking guy, talented, baseball player, played a season for the Braves. Married his high school sweet heart, home coming queen, had a couple of kids, travelling around the country, he's got it made. This is America for God's sake."
As the economy gets tougher and tougher to survive, the underpaid teacher decides to supplement his income by capitalizing on his generous physical gift. With the help of a former-acquaintance-turned-pimp, Tanya (Jane Adams), Ray attempts to earn extra cash.
"It's a little empowering. I'm selling his ass. Selling his ass," jokes Jane Adams. "It's going to go for a pretty penny, we hope."
The extra money helps to counter the financial drains caused by his divorce from his ex-wife (Anne Heche), the needs of his teenaged twins, a lapsed fire-insurance policy, and a stubborn inability to take control of his life.
"Jessica is a girl who, you know it's kind of little bit of the story of Jack and Diane, she is an American kid in Detroit, and fell in love with a boy named Ray and then they grew up," explained Heche. "And then things weren't as wonderful as she thought they were and not as wonderful as she would continue to like them to be. So she lives a little in that bubble."
For those living in caves, "Hung" does not refer to anyone's last name. It's a description of Drecker's sole useful asset. Because, you know, he's hung.
It leaves one to wonder what the audition process was like for Thomas Jane.
Quick to admit to the process, Thomas Jane shows no shame.
"I don't know, I'd say it was a little bit of type casting," smirks Jane. "But I try to avoid it, but in this business it just keeps getting harder and harder...I don't know."
"Hung" debuts on HBO, Sunday, June 28.
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AP-APTN-2000: US My Sisters Keeper
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:US My Sisters Keeper- REPLAY Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin attend premiere of new film
LENGTH: 06:07
FIRST RUN: 0600
RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP, New Line Cinema
STORY NUMBER: 610722
DATELINE: New York, 24 June 2009
LENGTH: 06:07
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SHOTLIST (including transcript):-
AP Television
New York, 24 June 2009
1. Wide shot, pan left from street to Loews Theater
2. Zoom out from poster to Cameron Diaz on red carpet
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Diaz, Actress:
"I didn't really think twice about if it was a mother role. I didn't worry whether it was something believable or that I hadn't played it before. It was something that I really enjoyed. I though the script was really well done and if I was ever going to do a film like this, with this subject matter I would want to do it with Nick Cassavetes because I knew that he wouldn't make it overly sentimental, he would be honest and straight forward."
New Line Cinema
4. Clip trailer: 'My Sister's Keeper'
AP Television
New York, 24 June 2009
5. Wide shot, Cameron Diaz speaks to reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Diaz, Actress (on how the role affected her emotionally):
"It does take its toll on you. But that's what we do, you know? It's like how policemen go into a crime scene or a fireman comes out of a fire, you know? It's just sort of what we do emotionally. And it's hard to explain how you equip yourself with that because everybody does it differently. But we had a lot of great support. We all have our families and we all have each other and we laughed a lot whilst we were on the film. It's one of those things that you don't think we would but we actually did laugh a lot."
New Line Cinema
7. Clip trailer: 'My Sister's Keeper'
AP Television
New York, 24 June 2009
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Diaz, Actress (on working with teen actors):
"I was amazed at how courageous they were, you know? Sophia shaved her head and her eyebrows at fifteen, you know. That's a really formidable time when kids really have their identity with their hair. That's who they are. And she just did it. She had hair down to here. And Abigail was just sort of fearless in everything. She's a warrior. They're just both very powerful, wonderful girls and I really felt honoured that I got to work with them in this capacity."
9. Pan up, Abigail Breslin speaks to reporters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Abigail Breslin, Actress:
"My grandpa died of cancer, so you know, I know that anybody in my family would have given anything to make him feel better and that's sort of what's going on in this family too."
New Line Cinema
11. Clip film: 'My Sister's Keeper'
AP Television
New York, 24 June 2009
12. Medium shot, Abigail Breslin speaks to reporters
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Abigail Breslin, Actress (on how she prepared for the role):
"Well you know I read the script and there was a girl on set, Nicole, and she was a technical supervisor and technical consultant. And she went through leukaemia and she's great. She's a really cool person and she's like my hero."
14. Medium shot, Sofia Vassilieva poses on the red carpet
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sofia Vassilieva, Actress (on shaving her head):
"It was such a great team to support me through and I remember when I was shaving my head, Nick was there. Nick Cassavetes, our incredible director. Nicole Schultz who's a girl who was actually our support. She's gone through cancer and she knows all the steps. She was there and we chanted fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, fuzzy wuzzy had no hair and I shaved some of it off. So it was fuelled with energy but of course it was scary up until then. The eyebrows were the worst. Hair can be a fashion statement, but your eyebrows, that automatically labels you with an illness."
New Line Cinema
16. Clip trailer: 'My Sister's Keeper'
AP Television
New York, 24 June 2009
17. Wide shot, pan from Sofia Vassilieva to Cameron Diaz
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Sofia Vassilieva, Actress (on Cameron Diaz):
"She's a gem. She's precious. She's one of those people that you come by so rarely in life that meeting them and being able to work with them is a dream because they're so supportive and so strong and so welcoming and they fuel you with energy and strength and to be able to work with Cameron and be a team with her made us all stronger."
New Line Cinema
19. Clip film: 'My Sister's Keeper'
AP Television
New York, 24 June 2009
20. Pan up, Thomas Dekker and Sofia Vassilieva pose on red carpet
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Dekker, Actor (on creating on-screen chemistry):
"The first day that we were shooting together is when we met. We'd had no time previous. And Sophia and I are both people who don't really open up to anybody. We're kind of?and so there was no chemistry there. Shot this really short thing fortunately so it didn't really matter. The Nick asked me to take her out for the night and we just went out for like four hours and laughed and really opened up to each other and from that point on we didn't even really have to build the chemistry. It was just there."
New Line Cinema
22. Clip film: 'My Sister's Keeper'
DIAZ TAKES ON NEW ROLE IN "MY SISTER'S KEEPER"
Hollywood superstar Cameron Diaz admits she didn't think twice about becoming a mom - in her latest film that is.
"I didn't worry whether it was something believable or that I hadn't played it before," she says. "It was something that I really enjoyed."
And though she's not a real-life mother, Diaz plays the bulldog matriarch Sara in director Nick Cassavetes' latest drama, 'My Sister's Keeper.' The film premiered Wednesday (24 June) in New York City.
Based on the Jodi Picoult best-seller, the film focuses on the Fitzgerald family, and the drastic decision they made in medically engineering a child (Abigail Breslin) as a perfect genetic match to help save the life of their older daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has leukaemia.
Diaz says working on such a heart-wrenching movie takes its toll on the actors.
"It does take its toll on you. But that's what we do, you know? It's like how policemen go into a crime scene or a fireman comes out of a fire, you know? It's just sort of what we do emotionally," she says.
In the film little Anna provides blood, bone marrow, whatever Kate needs. She does it because she loves her sister, and because it's all she'd ever known. Now at 11, with Kate needing a kidney, Anna says no for the first time - and beyond that, she files a lawsuit seeking medical emancipation from her parents to keep them from making further decisions about her body.
Diaz says she was "amazed" how courageous her young co-stars were during filming:
"Sophia shaved her head and her eyebrows at fifteen, you know. That's a really formidable time when kids really have their identity with their hair. That's who they are. And she just did it. She had hair down to here. And Abigail was just sort of fearless in everything. She's a warrior."
Vassilieva admits that shaving her head was a scary prospect at first, but credits her colleagues for helping her through.
"It was such a great team to support me through and I remember when I was shaving my head Nick was there. Nick Cassavetes, our incredible director. Nicole Schultz who's a girl who was actually our support. She's gone through cancer and she knows all the steps. She was there and we chanted fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, fuzzy wuzzy had no hair and I shaved some of it off. So it was fuelled with energy but of course it was scary up until then. The eyebrows were the worst. Hair can be a fashion statement, but your eyebrows, that automatically labels you with an illness," says the star of TV's "Medium."
Breslin says she was able to draw on real life experience for the role.
"My grandpa died of cancer, so you know, I know that anybody in my family would have given anything to make him feel better and that's sort of what's going on in this family too," she says.
In the film Kate shares her first love with a fellow cancer patient, played by Thomas Dekker ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"). Dekker says portraying their romance was a challenge at first.
"The first day that we were shooting together is when we met," explains Dekker. "We'd had no time previous. And Sophia and I are both people who don't really open up to anybody. We're kind of?and so there was no chemistry there. Shot this really short thing fortunately so it didn't really matter. Then Nick asked me to take her out for the night and we just went out for like four hours and laughed and really opened up to each other and from that point on we didn't even really have to build the chemistry. It was just there."
"My Sister's Keeper" opens in US and UK theaters 26 June 2009.
Other release dates include:
Iceland 8 July 2009
Greece 9 July 2009
Australia 30 July 2009
New Zealand 30 July 2009
Russia 13 August 2009
Ukraine 13 August 2009
Taiwan 14 August 2009
Romania 21 August 2009
Czech Republic 27 August 2009
Germany 27 August 2009
Netherlands 27 August 2009
Bulgaria 28 August 2009
Italy 4 September 2009
Norway 4 September 2009
France 9 September 2009
Portugal 17 September 2009
Belgium 23 September 2009
Brazil 25 September 2009
Sweden 25 September 2009
Finland 4 December 2009
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AP-APTN-2000: FILE Michael Jackson Obit
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:FILE Michael Jackson Obit- REPLAY Michael Jackson dies in an LA hospital at age 50
LENGTH: 02:26
FIRST RUN: Flash
RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP, Pool
STORY NUMBER: 610840
DATELINE: Various
LENGTH: 02:26
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SHOTLIST:
AP Television
Japan, 4 March 2007
1. FILE: Med shot, Michael Jackson greeted by fans in Japan 2. FILE: Med shot, Michael Jackson in Japan 3. FILE: Med shot, Michael Jackson in Japan
AP Television
Santa Maria, CA, 28 February 2005
4. Michael Jackson waves to fans at Santa Maria Courthouse during child molestation trial
AP Television
Santa Maria, CA, 10 March 2005
5. Michael Jackson arrives at courthouse with pajamas on during child molestation case 6. Michael Jackson enters courthouse
AP Television
Santa Maria, CA, March 2005
7. Michael Jackson at Santa Maria, CA courthouse
AP Television
Santa Maria, CA, March 2005
8. Michael Jackson at Santa Maria, CA courthouse
AP Television
Recent
11. Med shot of Michael Jackson
Pool
London, 5 March 2009
12. 6. Various of Jackson on stage
13. Crowd cheering
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Jackson, pop star:
"I just want to say that these, these will be my final show performances in London. This will be it, and when is say this it really means this is it because (laughs)."
15. Pan of crowd
16. Various of Jackson on stage
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Jackson, pop star:
"I'll be performing the songs my fans want to hear. This is it, I mean this is really it, this is the final, this is the final curtain call. OK, and I'll see you in July, and..."
18. Wide of Jackson on stage
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AP-APTN-2000: US Jackson controversary
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:US Jackson controversary- NEW A look at the controversary behind Jackson's life
LENGTH: 03:41
FIRST RUN: 0000
RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP Television
STORY NUMBER: 610843
DATELINE: New York, 25 June 2009
LENGTH: 03:41
SHOTLIST(including transcript):-
Associated Press Television - File
Dateline Unknown
1. Medium shot, Michael Jackson
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"Michael Jackson's legacy is obviously going to be his great musical impact, but it's alos going to be the fact that his life was shrouded in a lot of controversy."
AP Images
Encino, California 1972
3. Michael Jackson at age 13
AP Images
Location unknown, July 1984
4. Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"Michael Jackson's childhood was controversial. His father was the one who put together the Jackson Five and if you watch biographies about their lives and read books about their lives, he was the one that really drove the family and he was that one that in fact made the brothers and sisters kind of alienate the family when they got older."
Associated Press Television - File
Japan, 4 March 2007
6. Various shots of Michael Jackson greeted by fans in Japan
AP Images
Encino, California 1972
7. Michael Jackson at age 13
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"America feel in love with Michael Jackson as a cute, little brown-skinned bow with a huge afro and a cute smile. As a man he looked like a different person. He had almost white skin, very different nose, long straight hair. Despite that transformation, Michael Jackson claimed that he didn't have a lot of plastic surgery."
AP Images
Dateline unknown
9. Various headshots of Michael Jackson through the years
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"One of Michael Jackson's most shocking moments was definitely his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's daughter. People could not believe that these two are together. She after they divorced went on Oprah and said that she actually loved Michael Jackson. It just didn't work out."
AP Images
New York, 8 Sept., 1994
11. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley at the MTV Music Video Awards
12. Michael Jackson kisses Lisa Marie Presley at the MTV Music Video Awards
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"Michael Jackson never denied the fact that he loved children. He had a couple kids of his own, but his own career had a lot of controversy over the fact that he was confused but never convicted of molestation a couple of times."
Associated Press Television - File
Santa Maria, CA, 10 March 2005
14. Michael Jackson arrives at courthouse with pajamas on during child molestation case 15. Michael Jackson enters courthouse
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"Speaking of children you cannot forget that famous video of Michael Jackson dangling his baby over the edge of a hotel in Europe. Now he says that he didn't think it was controversial. He just wanted his fans to see his baby. Child advocacy groups said it was downright dangerous."
AP Images
Berlin, Germany, 21 November 2002
17. Michael Jackson holds his daughter as he stands near his hotel balcony
Associated Press Television
New York, 25 June 2009
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Quarles, Entertainment Editor, Associated Press:
"It's interesting that Michael Jackson started off his career so successfully. He of course had all this controversy, this mystery surrounding him. But it seemed that his life was on an upturn. He was slated to start a tour. He had recently given a press conference. So his death is just shocking to his fans and the media world alike."
Pool
London, 5 March 2009
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Jackson, pop star:
"I just want to say that these, these will be my final show performances in London. This will be it, and when is say this it really means this is it because (laughs)."
18. Pan of crowd
19. Various of Jackson on stage
MICHAEL JACKSON DIES IN LA HOSPITAL; KING OF POP WAS 50
A source says that Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the "King of Pop" and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, has died at age 50.
A person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that Jackson died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear. Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times that Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m. local time (1930 GMT).
Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s.
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AP-APTN-2000: US Fawcett Reax
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:US Fawcett Reax- REPLAY Fans react to Fawcett's death at her star on Walk of Fame
LENGTH: 02:04
FIRST RUN: 2000
RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP Television
STORY NUMBER: 610827
DATELINE: Los Angeles, 25 June 2009
LENGTH: 02:04
SHOTLIST (including transcript):-
AP Television
Los Angeles, 25 June 2009
1. Close-up of Farrah Fawcett's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with flowers
2. Close-up from another angle of Fawcett's star
3. Close-up of a flower and note left by a fan on the star
4. Close-up of the TV symbol on her star
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox-Pop: "Well, I actually garner a lot of strength from her, because I'm a liver cancer sufferer. I mean, I just got it now, but you know. And I once met Kate, I worked for her once. I don't know, I have this bond with them and they don't even know me.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox-Pop "Well, I just saw her love for other people. That she cared enough to do this in her pain, to maybe help someone else and just what a compassionate person she was. It was really touching. I cried a lot."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox-Pop: "Oh, she had nice hair, yeah, lovely hair. Yeah, and she was always the tall, sophisticated looking in 'Charlie's Angels.'"
8. Medium shot of worker placing traditional wreath from Hollywood Historic Trust on the star
9. Close-up of ribbon on wreath: "Farrah Fawcett"
10. Close-up of card on wreath, "With Deepest Sympathy / The Hollywood Historic Trust"
FANS REMEMBER FARRAH FAWCETT
Just a couple hours after news broke that actress Farrah Fawcett passed away following a three-year battle with cancer, fans began to place flowers on her Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
The biggest bouquet came from The Hollywood Historic Trust, which maintains the Walk of Fame.
Fans paying their respects at her star remembered her for her fight against cancer, her compassion, and of course, her hair.
"I actually garner a lot of strength from her, because I'm a liver cancer sufferer," said one. "And I once met Kate (Jackson), I worked for her once. I don't know, I have this bond with them and they don't even know me."
"I just saw her love for other people," said another, "what a compassionate person she was."
"She had nice hair, yeah, lovely hair," said another fan. "She was always the tall, sophisticated looking in 'Charlie's Angels.'"
Fawcett burst on the scene in 1976 as one-third of the crime-fighting trio in TV's "Charlie's Angels." A poster of her in a clingy swimsuit sold in the millions.
Her full, layered hairstyle became all the rage, with girls and women across America adopting the look.
She left the show after one season and turned to more serious roles in the 1980s and 1990s, winning praise and an Emmy nomination for playing an abused wife in the TV film "The Burning Bed."
She was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006. As she underwent treatment, she enlisted the help of longtime beau Ryan O'Neal, who is the father of her now 24-year-old son, Redmond.
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AP-APTN-2000: OBIT Farrah Fawcett
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:OBIT Farrah Fawcett- REPLAY Ryan O'Neal reacts to Fawcett's death + Fawcett b-roll
LENGTH: 03:34
FIRST RUN: 1800
RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP, Sony
STORY NUMBER: 610823
DATELINE: File
LENGTH: 03:34
CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment - News access only
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Hollywood.tv
Los Angeles, 25 June 2009
1. Ryan O'Neal walking to car, talking to reporter: "Farrah's gone."
AP Television
FILE: Los Angeles, 6 July 2005
2. Farrah Fawcett poses for photographers
3. Photographers cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Farrah Fawcett/Actor:
"Well, I was called for jury duty, and . . . not on Monday, not on Tuesday, not on Wednesday, you know . . . It's interesting to learn the process of the law and the country that I live in. Uh, but somebody was saying to me, 'Could you have gotten out of it?' and I was listening to the judge, 'The country that gives you so much asks very little.' You pay taxes, but you have to give back. I mean, you can't just be silent and say, 'Oh, I don't like how things are going? Why did this happen?' So, if our guys are over there, you know, then the least we can do is do our part here."
5. Photographers cutaway
6. (Reporter: "So, are you done for the day?") SOUNDBITE (English) Fawcett: "No, no, no no, I'm going in. In fact, the judge might be waiting on me. That might not be good."
AP Television
FILE: Miami - 29 August 2004
7. Tilt up Farrah Fawcett
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Farah Fawcett:
"Because I think for a while, either the country or the younger generation, were filled with apathy, you know, and I think that I would rather see you either extreme one way or the other than just be apathetic and so, you need to. It's almost like they were asleep for a while, things were too easy so now, you know, be conscious, yeah you have a say so let's vote. Take some responsibility."
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9. Farrah Fawcett arrives for the MTV Video Music Awards
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Pasadena, Calif. - 26 July 1999
10. Farrah Fawcett appears to ponder a question during a news conference Monday, July 26, 1999, before the Television Critics Association
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Hollywood, Calif - 23 February 1995
11. Farrah Fawcett poses during ceremonies honoring her with the 2,044th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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New York - 5 March 1989
12. Ryan O'Neal, Farrah Fawcett, Robert Downey Jr., Cybill Shepherd and Mary Stuart Masterson are shown together at the premiere of the motion picture production "Chances Are"
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Los Angeles - 13 August 2006
13. Farrah Fawcett posing for photographers on the red carpet before Comedy Centrals "Roast of William Shatner"
14. Fashion shot of Farrah Fawcett posing for photographers on the red carpet before Comedy Central event
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Los Angeles - 27 August 2006
15. Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith, left to right, former stars of the television series "Charlie's Angels,' pay tribute to producer Aaron Spelling during the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
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Los Angeles - September 1984
16. Farrah Fawcett smiles during an interview
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New York - 8 August 1979
17. Farrah Fawcett-Majors appears on NBC's "Today" show
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Los Angeles - 3 April 1978
18. Farrah Fawcett-Majors arrives at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the 50th Annual Academy Awards presentations
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New York - 14 November 1977
19. Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors
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Mission Viejo, Calif. - 4 April 1977
20. Farrah Fawcett at celebrity tennis match in a television taping of "Challenge of the Network Stars"
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Mission Viejo, Calif. - 4 April 1977
21. Farrah Fawcett at celebrity tennis match in a television taping of "Challenge of the Network Stars"
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22. Clip - 'Charlies Angels'
FARRAH FAWCETT DIES AT 62
Farrah Fawcett, whose luxurious tresses and blinding smile helped redefine sex appeal in the 1970s as one of
TV's "Charlie's Angels," died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62.
The pop icon, who in the 1980s set aside the fantasy girl image to tackle serious roles, died Thursday shortly before 9:30 a.m. PDT in a Santa Monica hospital, spokesman Paul Bloch said.
She burst on the scene in 1976 as one-third of the crime-fighting trio in TV's "Charlie's Angels." A poster of her
in a clingy swimsuit sold in the millions.
She left the show after one season but had a flop on the big screen with "Somebody Killed Her Husband." She turned to more serious roles in the 1980s and 1990s, winning praise playing an abused wife in "The Burning Bed."
She had been diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006. As she underwent treatment, she enlisted the help of actor Ryan O'Neal, who had been her longtime companion and was the father of her son, Redmond, born in 1985.
This month, O'Neal said he asked Fawcett to marry him and she agreed. They would wed "as soon as she can say yes," he said.
Her struggle with painful treatments and dispiriting setbacks was recorded in the television documentary "Farrah's Story."
Fawcett sought cures in Germany as well as the United States, battling the disease with iron determination even as her body weakened.
"Her big message to people is don't give up, no matter what they say to you, keep fighting," her friend Alana Stewart said.
NBC estimated the May 15, 2009, broadcast drew nearly 9 million viewers.
In the documentary, Fawcett was seen shaving off most of her trademark locks before chemotherapy could claim them. Toward the end, she's seen huddled in bed, barely responding to a visit from her son.
Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith comprised the original "Angels," the sexy, police-trained trio of martial arts experts who took their assignments from a rich, mysterious boss named Charlie (John Forsythe, who was never seen on camera but whose distinctive voice was heard on speaker phone.)
The program debuted in September 1976, the height of what some critics derisively referred to as television's "jiggle show" era, and it gave each of the actresses ample opportunity to show off their figures as they disguised themselves in bathing suits and as hookers and strippers to solve crimes.
Backed by a clever publicity campaign, Fawcett - then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors because of her marriage to "Six Million Dollar Man" star Lee Majors - quickly became the most popular Angel of all.
Her face helped sell T-shirts, lunch boxes, shampoo, wigs and even a novelty plumbing device called Farrah's faucet. Her flowing blond hair, pearly white smile and trim, shapely body made her a favorite with male viewers in particular.
A poster of her in a dampened red swimsuit sold millions of copies and became a ubiquitous wall decoration in teenagers' rooms.
Thus the public and the show's producer, Spelling-Goldberg, were shocked when she announced after the series' first season that she was leaving television's No. 5-rated series to star in feature films. (Cheryl Ladd became the new "Angel" on the series.)
But the movies turned out to be a platform where Fawcett was never able to duplicate her TV success. Her first star vehicle, the comedy-mystery "Somebody Killed Her Husband," flopped and Hollywood cynics cracked that it should have been titled "Somebody Killed Her Career."
The actress had also been in line to star in "Foul Play" for Columbia Pictures. But the studio opted for Goldie Hawn instead.
"Spelling-Goldberg warned all the studios that that they would be sued for damages if they employed me," Fawcett told The Associated Press in 1979. "The studios wouldn't touch me."
She finally reached an agreement to appear in three episodes of "Charlie's Angels" a season, an experience she called "painful."
She returned to making movies, including the futuristic thriller "Logan's Run," the comedy-thriller "Sunburn" and the strange sci-fi tale "Saturn 3," but none clicked with the public.
Fawcett fared better with television movies such as "Murder in Texas," "Poor Little Rich Girl" and especially as an abused wife in 1984's "The Burning Bed." The last earned her an Emmy nomination and the long-denied admission from critics that she really could act.
As further proof of her acting credentials, Fawcett appeared off-Broadway in "Extremities" as a woman who is raped in her own home. She repeated the role in the 1986 film version.
Not content to continue playing victims, she switched type. She played a murderous mother in the 1989 true-crime story "Small Sacrifices" and a tough lawyer on the trail of a thief in 1992's "Criminal Behavior."
She also starred in biographies of Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld and photographer Margaret Bourke-White.
"I felt that I was doing a disservice to ourselves by portraying only women as victims," she commented in a 1992
interview.
In 1995, at age 50, Fawcett posed partly nude for Playboy magazine. The following year, she starred in a Playboy video, "All of Me," in which she was equally unclothed while she sculpted and painted.
She told an interviewer she considered the experience "a renaissance," adding, "I no longer feel ... restrictions
emotionally, artistically, creatively or in my everyday life. I don't feel those borders anymore."
Fawcett's most unfortunate career moment may have been a 1997 appearance on David Letterman's show, when her disjointed, rambling answers led many to speculate that she was on drugs. She denied that, blaming her strange behavior on questionable advice from her mother to be playful and have a good time.
In September 2006, Fawcett, who at 59 still maintained a strict regimen of tennis and paddleball, began to feel strangely exhausted. She underwent two weeks of tests and was told the devastating news: She had anal cancer.
O'Neal, with whom she had a 17-year relationship, again became her constant companion, escorting her to the hospital for chemotherapy.
"She's so strong," the actor told a reporter. "I love her. I love her all over again."
She struggled to maintain her privacy, but a UCLA Medical Center employee pleaded guilty in late 2008 to violating federal medical privacy law for commercial purposes for selling records of Fawcett and other celebrities to the National Enquirer.
"It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope," she told the Los Angeles Times in an interview in which she also revealed that she helped set up a sting that led to the hospital worker's arrest.
Her decision to tell her own story through the NBC documentary was meant as an inspiration to others, friends said. The segments showing her cancer treatment, including a trip to Germany for procedures there, were originally shot for a personal, family record, they said. And although weak, she continued to show flashes of grit and good humor in the documentary.
"I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God, `It is seriously time for a miracle,"' she said at one point.
Born Feb. 2, 1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas, she was named Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett by her mother, who said she added the Farrah because it sounded good with Fawcett. She was less than a month old when she underwent surgery to remove a digestive tract tumor with which she was born.
After attending Roman Catholic grade school and W.B. Ray High School, Fawcett enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fellow students voted her one of the 10 most beautiful people on the campus and her photos were eventually spotted by movie publicist David Mirisch, who suggested she pursue a film career.
After overcoming her parents' objections, she agreed.
Soon she was appearing in such TV shows as "That Girl," "The Flying Nun," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Partridge Family."
Majors became both her boyfriend and her adviser on career matters, and they married in 1973. She dropped his last name from hers after they divorced in 1982.
By then she had already begun her long relationship with O'Neal.
The couple never married. Both Redmond and Ryan O'Neal have grappled with drug and legal problems in recent years.
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AP-APTN-2000: US Jackson reax
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:US Jackson reax- NEW New York fans react to Jackson's death
LENGTH: 01:41
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TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP Television
STORY NUMBER: 610844
DATELINE: New York, 25 June 2009
LENGTH: 01:41
SHOTLIST(including transcript):-
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New York, 25 June 2009
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Hugh Porter/Michael Jackson Fan
"Very, very sad. Very, very sad. He's like an Idol to everyone to all the people in this world, you know? All over the country, all over the world. He's like an Idol to everybody. Kids look up to him. Old people. You know. Very sad. I really, I really feel bad. I feel like crying myself."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Era Kessaris/Michael Jackson Fan
"I was hoping that maybe he'd come to New York too. I would've paid anything to see him. (Reporter: What's his legacy?) I just think his music, his videos, his talent just speaks for itself. That's all I can really say right now. I'm really upset about it. Thanks, sorry."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefanie C. O'Conner/Michael Jackson Fan
"I think he was a great artist before he went down a path that basically put him into a position of becoming something other than talented. That people looked at him more as a freak show than at his talent."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan McDermott/Michael Jackson Fan
"distrought when I heard that. I cried. He's my lifelong Idol. I thought he was immortal. I thought he'd never die and he died. That stuff doesn't happen, you know?'
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Pearson/Michael Jackson Fan
"I saw him at Madison Square Garden when I was 12, 13 years old. He was, I guess the same age. I was a big teeny bopper. A Jackson Five fan and that's really tragic. Really tragic."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Abritto El/Michael Jackson Fan
"Sad for him. I know his family's probably hurt. He was like the best thing out the whole Jackson Five."
FANS REACT TO JACKSON DEATH
Fans in New York City are mourning the death of Michael Jackson. Outside of Penn Station, people reacted to the news of the singer's passing from a heart attack at age 50.
"Very sad. I really, I really feel bad. I feel like crying myself," said Hugh Porter.
Some expressed regret they would never get to see him in concert:
"I was hoping that maybe he'd come to New York too. I would've paid anything to see him."
The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda told the newspaper.
Michael Jackson is survived by three children.
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AP-APTN-2000: US Jackson Auction
Thursday, 25 June 2009
STORY:US Jackson Auction- NEW A look at Jackson's finances
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Pool
London, 5 March 2009
1. Michael Jackson walks out of van
2. Michael Jackson on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Jackson/Recording Artist
"This is it."
4. Cheering crowd
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5. Various of Jackson at Neverland
Associated Press Television
New York City, 24 March 2009
6. Wide shot of Times Square, pan to Hard Rock Caf? marquee
Associated Press Television
2005 Santa Barbara, Calif.
7. Various file of Michael Jackson during trial
Associated Press Television
New York City, 24 March 2009
8. Tilt up of poster for Michael Jackson memorabilia auction
9. Wide shot of jackets
10. Medium shot of belt, crown, and jewels on table
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Nolan/Julien's Auctions
"All of this stuff came from Michael Jackson and from his land, Neverland in the Santa Innes Valley in Santa Barbara, California."
12. Medium shot of glove on table
13. Close up of glove
14. Tilt up on jacket
15. Close up on jacket
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Nolan/Julien's Auctions
"On this table here you can see this amazing jacket from the Victory tour. A truly heavy jacket with the epilates and the sash. Michael was also known for the sash.
17. Tilt up on king's robe
18. Wide shot of media in display room
19. Tight shot of Guernsey's sign on exterior
20. Wide pan of Jackson Five memorabilia
21. Tight shot pull out to Michael Jackson's black fedora
22. Medium tilt down of replica of Hollywood star, fedoras and other memorabilia
23. Tight shot of handwritten lyrics to "ABC" written by Tito Jackson
24. Tight pan of "ABC" lyrics written by Tito Jackson
25. Tight shot of Michael Jackson's black crested jacket
26. Close up of monogram on Michael Jackson's jacket
27. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Arlan Ettinger, President, Guernsey's:
"Michael Jackson's beautifully embroidered jacket, just as the red jacket over there is Michael's, as was this when he was a member of the Jackson Five; we have pictures of him wearing it."
AP Television
Santa Maria, Ca, 28 Feb 2005
28. Various of Jackson going into court
MICHAEL JACKSON HAD HIS SHARE OF FINANCIAL WOES
Michael Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer.
He had the biggest selling record of all time, successful concert tours, and made savvy business decisions. But Jackson lived a lavish lifestyle that eventually caught up with him later in his career.
The 50-year-old singer died Thursday (25 JUNE) of cardiac arrest.
A major catalyst to the singer's lifestyle came from the mounting legal costs after acquired after being acquitted of child molestation in California in 2005. He has struggled to pay his debts, and was forced to give up the deed to his Neverland ranch.
Last April, he went to court to halt the sale of 2,000 items taken from Neverland by Julien's Auctions.
Martin Nolan from Julien's Auctions.
"All of this stuff came from Michael Jackson and from his land, Neverland in the Santa Innes Valley in Santa Barbara, California."
Some of these items were on display at the Hard Rock Caf? in New York City's Times Square.
Among the items are a silver and white silk jacket worn during the Victory tour, his 1984 American Music Awards for "Thriller," and "Beat It," and a variety of capes, crowns, belts, and jewel-encrusted accessories.
That auction was stopped at the last minute.
In 2007, Jackson settled with another auction company after a warehouse full of his memorabilia at a failed storage facility was put on the block.
Items included his signature black fedora, Tito Jackson's handwritten lyrics to the hit "ABC," Michael Jackson's black crested jacket and other awards.
His 1982 album "Thriller" - which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - remains the biggest-selling album of all time, with more than 26 million copies.
Jackson also owned most the Beatles song catalog in a venture with Sony records.
Jackson was set to play 50 concerts in London this summer.
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