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Westminster College will host Paul Rusesabagina to speak on "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to be Learned" Thursday, Nov.

Leonardo DiCaprio goes deep undercover in Martin Scorsese's crime epic The Departed , a remake of the Hong Kong classic Infernal Affairs .

Thesp Don Cheadle has now set his sights on building a mini TV empire. Crescendo, the production company Cheadle launched with former managers Kay Liberman and Lenore Zerman, has sealed a first-look TV deal at NBC.

Many times when a film based in the world of a police department, FBI agency or other law enforcement organization comes along, there's the standard confrontation between an unconventional, off-the-leash lawman clashing with a by-the-book, oh so serious counterpart.

Paul Rusesabagina, subject of the film Hotel Rwanda and author of An Ordinary Man, speaks at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center gymnasium.

NBC is lining up three projects for development: a half-hour comedy starring Adam Carolla; a comedy from The Simpsons alum Bill Oakley; and a project from Don Cheadle and The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder.

A major Hollywood actor and director take starring roles in a United Nations public service announcement campaign launched today, aimed at compelling world leaders to 'seal the deal' on a greenhouse gas emissions treaty at a climate change conference later this year.

Celebrities often get a bad rap for using fame to promote socio-political causes.

Caption: Tim Meadows Turner Broadcasting's TCA Summer Party - Arrivals held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Los Angeles, California .... FUNNYMAN MEADOWS IS CHEADLE'S DOPPELGANGER Comedic actor TIM MEADOWS looks so much like DON CHEADLE he's constantly stopped and asked to sign autographs as the HOTEL RWANDA star.

UK Oscar nominee wins star role OSCAR-nominated British actress Sophie Okonedo has bagged the starring role of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new film.

The Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage is offering free movies on Wednesdays.

The Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage is offering free movies on Wednesdays.

Don Cheadle SAN DIEGO - The Poet Laureate of our age, LL Cool J, once described himself as "the man of the hour, the tower of power." With all due respect, that torch was passed on this weekend to the biggest new cinematic character to emerge from Comic-Con: War Machine.

The Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage invites residents to free showings today of the 2004 film, "Hotel Rwanda." Starring Don Cheadle, the movie is about a hotel manager who houses Tutsi refugees during a struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Johnny Depp. Christian Bale. Marion Cotillard. Director Michael Mann. It didn't cause quite the mayhem of 2007's local "Ocean's Thirteen" premiere , but it was certainly a scene.

Is Philly treasure Will Smith the nicest man to make it in showbiz or an egomaniacal monster? Total egomaniac, says Janet Hubert , 53, who played Aunt Viv on the Fresh Prince 's breakout show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air . Hubert lashes out at Smith in her memoir, Perfection Is Not a Sitcom Mom , which is slated for a 2010 release.

Not everyone can pull a Madonna or Angelina and just adopt half the continent, but a bunch of celebs are "chipping" in to help the people of Darfur at the World Series of Poker this year.

Don Cheadle is, indisputably, one of the finest actors of today. His face channels so much intensity and a multitude of emotions that he is so hard to figure out yet so easy to be entranced by.

TALK TO ME a ' Don Cheadle proves his merit again in this true drama about Petey Greene, an ex-convict who welcomes controversy as a 1960s radio personality in Washington, D.C. The station's program director does his best to shield Greene from possible interference.

Don Cheadle seems equally at home in serious dramas like Hotel Rwanda or big-budget films like the Oceans series.