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If this summer showed us a grim future (thank you, WALL-E and Batman), fall wants to bring us a happy past. The ultra-serious or super-dark dramas that regularly populate fall lineups have been replaced with lots of starry Hollywood entertainments that either are set in the past or feel like throwbacks. If levity doesn't completely abound, it's certainly easier than ...

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Acker: Joss is also one of my very best friends since Angel , so he had told us about Dollhouse , and I kept telling him how jealous I was of Eliza and all the other people. And he was like, "Yeah, I wish I could write a show for my friends."

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The people who made ?Bottle Shock? obviously love their wine. They?re not that crazy about the French. And they are firm believers in the screenwriting rule of leaving no underdog-formula cliche unused, even when your movie is already dangerously overloaded with them.

Tough Grapes Finding the bedrock of humanity among California wines Movie ads in the newspapers are a great barometer of ? nothing. Except perhaps gullibility.

Portsmouth, NH ? The New Hampshire Film Festival, slated for Oct. 16 ? 19 in downtown Portsmouth, drew more than 600 entries by the Aug. 22 deadline for submissions, making the 2008 field the largest in the festival's eight-year history.

This is a beautiful film, both in terms of its sun-soaked presentation and its story of underdogs triumphing over adversity.

With two buzzed-about sci-fi series in works, network builds schedule beyond 'American Idol.