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The  drama is based  on a Vanity Fair story on Jewell, a security guard who was falsely accused of the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. ATLANTA -- While lesser-known celebrities and Hollywood executives continue to protest or cancel productions because of Georgia's new abortion law, one of entertainment's biggest names is moving full-speed ahead with his latest movie. Clint Eastwood is set to start filming this summer his latest film, "Richard Jewell." The movie is about the security guard who was initially accused in a pipe-bombing that rocked Atlanta's 1996 Summer Olympics. Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm will be joining Eastwood’s cast. Jewell was eventually cleared by the FBI, but only after then-AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs reported that Jewell was a suspect. What followed was arguably the nation's first 24-hour media firestorm, with news choppers circling almost 24 hours a day over Jewell's Brookhaven apartment and new...

Gloria Vanderbilt, the society heiress who stitched her illustrious family name into designer jeans and built a $100 million fashion empire, crowning her tabloid story of a child-custody fight, of broken marriages and of jet-set romances, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 95. Her death was confirmed by her son CNN's Anderson Cooper in a broadcast. To millions of women (and men) who wore her jeans, blouses, scarves, shoes, jewelry and perfumes, who saw her alabaster face, jet-black hair and slim figure in magazines, and who watched her move across a television screen and proclaim that her svelte jeans “really hug your derrière,” Ms. Vanderbilt was an alluring, faintly naughty fashion diva in the 1970s.   Gloria at the age of 7 with her maternal grandfather, H.H. Morgan, on the sands at Juan-les-Pins in southeastern France in 1931. She had a lonely, insecure childhood. But behind the flair and the practiced, throaty whisper — a plummy voice redolent o...

NEW YORK — "Hadestown," the brooding musical about the underworld, has reason to smile broadly: It's the best new musical Tony Award winner and nabbed eight trophies Sunday, including a rare win for a woman director of a musical. Playwright Jez Butterworth's "The Ferryman" was crowned best play. Bryan Cranston, Elaine May, Santino Fontana and Stephanie J. Block all won leading actor and actress awards. James Corden, in his second time around as host of the Tonys, opened the show with a tribute to live performance Jordan Roth, a prominent Broadway theater owner and producer, wore an outfit inspired by the musical “Hadestown.” He said he sees his red carpet appearances as “short performance pieces. Jordan Roth, a prominent Broadway theater owner and producer, wore an outfit that was fiery red from head to toe, including a floor-length red sequin cape. It was created by Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy and inspired by the musical...