LOS ANGELES George Clooney’s “The Descendants,” Brad Pitt’s “Moneyball,” Kristen Wiig’s “Bridesmaids” and Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” are among nominees for the Writers Guild of America Awards.
Clooney’s family drama “The Descendants” earned an adapted-screenplay nomination Thursday for director Alexander Payne and co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Pitt’s sports tale “Moneyball” is up for the same prize for writers Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin.
Zaillian has a second adapted-screenplay nomination for director David Fincher’s thriller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
“Bridesmaids” star Wiig shared an original-screenplay nomination for her wedding comedy, which she co-wrote with Annie Mumolo. Director Allen also was nominated for original screenplay for his romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris.”
Other contenders for original screenplay: Will Reiser for the cancer story “50/50,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen; Tom McCarthy for the family tale “Win Win,” featuring Paul Giamatti; and Diablo Cody for the dark comedy “Young Adult,” with Charlize Theron.
Also nominated for adapted screenplay: writer-director Tate Taylor for the Deep South drama “The Help,” with Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer; and John Logan for filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s Paris adventure “Hugo,” featuring Ben Kingsley and child stars Chloe Grace Moretz and Asa Butterfield.
Some acclaimed films, including the silent movie “The Artist,” were ineligible because they were not made under the guild’s contract guidelines.
Nominated for documentary screenplay: Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, “Better This World”; Marshall Curry and Matthew Hamachek,Discount Burberry wholesale, “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”; Patricio Guzman, “Nostalgia for the Light”; Wim Wenders, “Pina”; Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich and Leonard Retel Helmrich, “Position Among the Stars”; and Manish Pandey, “Senna.”
Honors from Hollywood trade groups such as the writers, actors and directors guilds help sort out likely contenders for the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out Jan. 24.
Writers Guild winners will be announced Feb. 19.
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OGDEN, Utah Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Utah house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.
That’s when the gunfire erupted.
When it was over Wednesday night, a 7-year veteran officer was dead and five of his colleagues were wounded,Replica Bape jeans, some critically. The suspect, an Army veteran whose estranged father said suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have been self-medicating with marijuana, was injured.
Now, as the city tries to grapple with the outburst of violence and the loss of one of its officers, investigators are trying to determine how the raid as part of a drug investigation could have gone so terribly wrong.
“It’s a very, very sad day,” an emotional Ogden Police Chief Wayne Tarwater said Thursday.
A candlelight vigil for the fallen officers is planned for Thursday night at an Ogden amphitheater.
Police declined to reveal details of the shooting besides a general timeline, citing the ongoing investigation.
They would not say, for instance, whether the shootout took place entirely inside the home or spilled out into the yard, how many shots were fired and how many guns were recovered.
There will be several investigations, including one by Ogden police and another outside probe by prosecutors.
Among the questions that authorities will try to answer was whether the officers, in the chaotic moments upon entering the house, may have inadvertently fired on each other.
Police said the warrant was based on information about possible drug activity, but would not say what officers were specifically looking for inside Matthew David Stewart’s home, which sits across the street from a Mormon church meeting house.
Stewart, 37, was in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said. He does not have an attorney yet.
Utah court records show Stewart’s criminal history includes only a 2005 conviction for a class B misdemeanor traffic violation operating a vehicle without insurance. A judge found him guilty after a bench trial and ordered him to pay a $350 fine.
State officials also placed a pair of tax liens on Stewart last August.
Stewart served in the Army from July 1994 to December 1998, spending a year based in Fort Bragg, N.C., and nearly three years stationed in Germany, Army records show.
He held a post as a communications equipment specialist, earning an Army Achievement Medal and a National Defense Service Medal. Both are given for completing active service, although they don’t indicate exceptional acts of valor.
Stewart’s father, Michael Stewart, said his son works a night shift at a local Walmart and may have been sleeping when police arrived.
“When they kicked in the door, he probably felt threatened,” said Michael Stewart, who has been estranged from his son for more than a year, but keeps track of him through his two other sons.
The elder Stewart said his son suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression and may have been treating it with small amounts of pot. He said he believes his son may have been growing the weed himself.
He said he didn’t believe his son owned any automatic weapons and that the family is upset by what happened. “This is my son’s problem and we’re grieving for him and all of the officers,” Michael Stewart said. “I’m dead sick about it.”
Weber County Attorney Dee Smith said it wasn’t yet clear what charges Stewart might face once the shooting investigation concludes.
“But it appears right now, with the information we have, that we have an aggravated murder as well as a number of other attempted aggravated murders,” Smith said, choking back tears.
Aggravated murder is a capital crime and, if convicted, Stewart could face the death penalty.
The officer killed, Jared Francom, was with the Ogden police. He leaves behind two daughters, aged 3 and 5, and his wife of seven years, Erin.
“She’s upset, but she’s hanging in there,” Frisby said of his daughter. “I can only describe her as a rock.”
Joining the narcotics strike force had long been Francom’s dream job, according to his father-in-law, John Frisby. Francom, 30, had worked as a part-time patrol officer and took security jobs on the side until he was finally chosen for the select group.
It was a “big honor,” Frisby said when reached by telephone at his home in Henderson, Nev. “He was good at it.”
By mid-day Thursday, more than 1,000 friends and strangers had expressed their support and gratitude for Francom and his family on a memorial Facebook page with prayers, poems and other message. Some posters swapped out their profile pictures for a black logo with a blue stripe representing fallen officers.
Authorities said the conditions of the officers ranged from serious to critical. They are Ogden officers Shawn Grogan, Kasey Burrell and Michael Rounkles, Weber County sheriff’s Sgt. Nate Hutchinson and Roy officer Jason VanderWarf.
Kevin Burrell, Kasey Burrell’s father, said his son was shot in the head. A seven-year veteran of the police force, the younger Burrell was sedated, but appears to be improving, his father said.
On Wednesday, witnesses said they heard three quick pops followed by a two- to three-minute pause, then lots of gunfire and officers yelling at someone to “put your hands up,” in the backyard.
Outside Stewart’s house on Thursday armed SWAT officers clothed in camouflage remained on guard as police continued their search of the property. The yard was taped off and dotted with numbered evidence markers.
Residents said they were shocked to hear there was any drug activity in the area or a shootout on their street.
“This has always been a quiet neighborhood. We’ve been here for 11 years,” said Andrew Mair, who said his wife hid in the couple’s basement in fear when the gunfire rang out. “I’ve never heard anything crazy going on.”
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Dobner in Salt Lake City and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
“The tone is working to be slightly darker,” Conrad told Us earlier this annual. “The first book was written through the eyes of somebody who had never been to Hollywood ahead, who never actually aspired toward fame alternatively money. This series is almost a girl who loves anything that fame is, and that’s always she’s ever really wanted.”
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Lauren Conrad has the write material.
The Fame Game isn’t the only paperback Conrad has in the goes. The Hills alum is likewise penning a followup to Harper Collins’ Lauren Conrad Style, titled Lauren Conrad Beauty. Conrad’s forthcoming how-to lead ambition feature diet and skincare tips, in appending to annual hairstyle ideas and component secrets.
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The 25-year-old New York Times bestselling lyricist will unlock her fourth novel, The Fame Game, above April 3, 2012, Us Weekly tin exclusively validation. The Fame Game follows wrong girl Madison Parker (from Conrad’s aboriginal L.A. Candy trilogy), who immediately discovers that Hollywood isn’t for glamorous as she thought.
Visit LaurenConrad.com to submit your loveliness answers — the Paper Crown designer’s responses might end up in the book!
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Redeye host Greg Gutfeld posted a series of tweets aimed by the outspoken Voice director, starting with a young joke: “Why did Maroon 5 across the road?” he asked. “Because crappy music is lawful there!”
The 32-year-old Maroon 5 singer inquired Fox News apt stop playing his band’s melody on their “evil f-cking aisle” in a Wednesday Twitter post, prompting several of the network’s hooks to fight behind.
Adam Levine is in “Misery.”
“Dear Adam Levine, don’t make crappy f-cking music afresh,” Fox News host Andy Levy, 45, wrote. “Thank you.”
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Gutfeld, 47, then retweeted some of Levine’s musings and added some sarcastic annotation. (Sample tweet: labels namely sound alike: Maroon 5 and crap. @adamlevine Names that sound alike: @kelseygrammer and @chelseahandler.)
Levine has not shied away from stirring up controversy on Twitter. In August, he blasted the MTV Video Music Awards, calling it the “an daytime a year when MTV pretends to still care almost music.”
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—Kristin Studeman
The Reese Witherspoon/Robert Pattinson tearjerker Water for Elephants premiered in New York yesterday. At fewest an human has been eagerly anticipating its debut: Designer Yuna Yang, who set to go on a capsule collection of 4 dresses inspired by Witherspoon’s temperament, Marlena, which she glimpsed briefly in the film’s trailer. (That’s Yang’s sketch for one of the dresses, left.)
At yesterday’s premiere, the designer—who wore Nicole Murphy, associate of actor and sometime NFL player Michael Strahan—weighed in on the film’s now-and-then entreat. “I thought the position in the movie—the 1930’s, the Depression era—is actually alike to now,” Yang told Style.com. “The free-for-all gave folk a fine flee for a few hours. Fashion brings namely same sorcery.”
The designer, known for her hand-done lace and beadwork designs, used luxe silk tulle and crinkled chiffon linens with gold neat from France apt distend above the mood of Jacqueline West’s costumes. (She was influenced by the film, but not individually involved with it.) “Marlena namely quite innocent and vulnerable, but in the meantime, she has a black side and I wanted to represent either,” Yang said. And when the gowns aren’t additionally available because buy, she’s amplifying appended looks for a Resort collection this summer.
There’s something to be said for the home-field convenience. When Hugo Boss-—based in Germany—elected to show its Hugo accumulation at Berlin mainstream week, they worked for broke, inviting 1,000 visitors (including Hilary Swank, Eric Bana, and Ryan Kwanten) for a shape show, banquet, and party at the Museum Island in the city’s megalopolis. Designer Eyan Allen saw back to the future for Spring. He cried the accumulation Poetic Tailoring, merely he appeared extra to be channeling Star Trek with the sharp, wash lines, and stark palette of starship silver, glacial blue, white, and flame red. Silver lamé leggings and streaming dresses over second-skin pearly trousers gave a clue of the sixties.
Afterward, the catwalkers of today had not difficulty imagining themselves in the merchandise. Georgia May Jagger, wearing a clothe and lipstick in the same arresting ruddy shown ashore the catwalk, cooed with Leah Woods over a sharp pantsuit worn by Jourdan Dunn. They either blessed Allen on his bracing palette, too. A differ opinion came from a model old enough apt remember the sixties the first time around: Veruschka. “I adore namely Hugo’s clothes are wearable,” she said. “But I would prefer dress the menswear, particularly the apronlike coverall jackets, because I can’t see many men wearing them and somebody should. I especially love how Hugo reduces it to 1 lusty color, whether ice, silver or red. But really, I mostly wear what I bought 30 years antecedent. When someone is lusty, it stays value reserving.” Or, you might mention, reinterpreting.
—Ana Finel Honigman
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Though she all looks put-together, Richie admits it’s more approximately feeling good than reserving up with the trends.
In a new interview with Teen Vogue, shopaholic Nicole Richie admits to owning more than 200 pairs of sunglasses. "But in my defense," she laughs, "I make sunglasses, so I must research-shop, and I own every couple I’ve ever designed."
Shady lady!
"Comfort takes precedence for me," she explains Cheap Christian Audigier, pointing apt her heels for an sample. "These are super-high, merely for they have a built-in platform, they don’t feel like it. I am no namely girl who can do super-arched heels. All the shoes I chart have a cushion and a platform."
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The 29-year-old fashionista — who inflamed hubby Joel Madden when she spent $3,000 above pillows in March — says her go-to outfit is jeans and a tee, "but you alteration the look with accessories. And by accessories, I average sunglasses, head scarves, shoes and bed jackets."
According to the House of Harlow and Winter Kate designer, she outlooks sunglasses as "amusement disguises to accessorize your face."
