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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set Chap Taylor to script a drama inspired by the 1962 John Ford-directed Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which starred John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin. In the original, Stewart played an idealistic lawyer who tries to bring the rule of law to a lawless…

"I've heard from a lot of men who say, 'I'm so embarrassed being a man.' " So says Anita Hill, thereby touching a lot of nerves. The prominent activist, herself a victim of sexual abuse, has now been anointed to lead an elite group studying Hollywood's contagion of sexual misconduct. Kathleen Kennedy, president of…

Ty Hardin, who starred in early TV Westerns Cheyenne and its spinoff, Bronco, has died. He was 87, and his widow Carolyn Pampu Hardin told the Associated Press he had been in failing health. According to a biography on his personal website, Hardin was born Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr.on New Year’s Day, 1930, in New…

Veteran actor and cowboy stuntman Bill Hart, who worked with John Wayne on The Alamo and was blown off his horse in a daring stunt on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, has died. He was 80. "He was a real cowboy," his longtime pal and fellow stuntman Roydon Clark told Deadline today. "He cowboyed in this business with…