LEGAL BRIEFS And so it begins. Robert Blake was arraigned yesterday in a Van Nuys, Calif. courtroom on charges of killing his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, last May. The session took just 10 minutes, with the actor saying nothing except, ”Not guilty, your honor” as he was charged with one count of murder with the special circumstance of lying in wait (which carries the death penalty), one count of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of solicitation of murder. Read More...
No, really, it makes sense, casting Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. True, Downey isn’t tall or rugged or bankable, but neither was Tobey Maguire when Marvel cast him as Spider-Man. More important, Downey can act, which is going to be key when he’s stuck for long stretches behind that immobile mask. (Maybe he can get some pointers from Hugo Weaving, who pulled off a similar feat in V for Vendetta. Read More...
You haven’t seen the last of Robert Langdon on screen. NBC has given a production commitment to Langdon, a show that will be based on Dan Brown’s 2009 thriller The Lost Symbol, the third book in the Robert Langdon series. The show is to follow the early adventures of the famed Harvard symbologist, who finds himself pulled into a series of deadly puzzles when his mentor is kidnapped and the CIA compels him to join a task force. Read More...
