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George Litto, a longtime Hollywood talent agent who represented blacklisted writers and collaborated with Melvin Van Peeples and Ossie Davis, has died. He was 88. Litto passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on April 29 from complications of aortic stenosis, his daughter and business partner, Andria Litto, told Dea…

Sue Barton, who helmed the rollout of more than 50 studio films, including Academy Award winners Gandhi and Tootsie, has died. She was 79 and passed away January 5 in Monterey, CA, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to her friend, producer Carolyn Pfeiffer Bradshaw. The publicity and marketing veteran…

Robert Altman has been chosen for the American Film Institute’s inaugural retrospective spotlighting a filmmaker of global significance. The retrospective, including screenings and discussions, will run during this year’s AFI Fest November 9-16 in Hollywood. It’s billed as the first of an annual event. Altman, who…

Writers are warned never to give away the ending of a movie or play. But beginnings are fair game. This is how Paul Dooley opens his one-man show, Movie Dad: ‘I am a character actor. That's the definition of me. For the past 60 years, I've been pretending to be other people. Tonight, I'm going to pretend to be myse…

Richard Portman, an Oscar winner who wove the signature overlapping dialogue on Robert Altman’s 1975 landmark Nashville into a complex and hypnotic tapestry as central to the film as each character, died Saturday night at his home in Betton Hills, FL. Celebrated and 11 times Oscar-nominated for his work as sound…

Robert Altman Documentary Sphinx Productions, the premium cable service Epix, Astral’s The Movie Network, Submarine Entertainment and Dakota Group Ltd. are partnering on Altman, a feature documentary about the late Robert Altman to be directed and produced by filmmaker Ron Mann. Altman will feature interviews with…