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Published Wednesday 4 November 2009 06:53pm EST. Though independent cinema often features women in complex leading roles, the majority of parts available for female actors in mainstream Hollywood movies are supporting roles, often accessories to strong male counterparts.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 1:00 am US/Mountain JOHN PEEL, The Durango Herald DURANGO, Colo.

Frank Smith is hoping an arena chock-full of the latest and greatest in fly-fishing gear, demonstrations by some of the region's top anglers - and maybe a little beer sampling - will help re-energize fly-fishing in the mountains.

As George Wallace presumably faded into the sunset, Fob James took the reigns of Alabama state government in January of 1979.

Contrary to popular belief, Hollywood sometimes tries to do more than find creative new ways to torture us with the "comedy" of Dane Cook.

If you're lucky and have a snow day today, you'll get the chance to watch some movies.

At the world premiere of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 40 years ago, Robert Redford and Paul Newman DRA '54, dressed in elegant black suits, graced a red carpet - not in Hollywood but in New Haven.

Fresh from the success of the Best of the Bay-winning Summer Sunset Cinema Series, The Studio@620 and Push Ultra Lounge once again team up to present a collection of classic films each Monday.

In most sports movies the big moments are big : Robert Redford 's star-spangled mega-homer in "The Natural." By contrast the best of many good scenes in "The Damned United," a winner for soccer fans and soccer idiots alike, is a small one.

REDFORD, RUSCHA, RUSHDIE AND HARMAN HONORED AT NATIONAL ARTS AWARD DINNER Artist Ed Ruscha , recipient of the Artistic Excellence Award at the October 5 Americans for the Arts 2009 National Arts Awards dinner, joked that all the evening's honorees should collaborate on a film based on Salman Rushdie 's "The Satanic Verses." In response, Rushdie, ...

Home : Features : Movies : Evan Rachel Wood to star in Robert Redford-directed drama Evan Rachel Wood to star in Robert Redford-directed drama 19-Oct-2009 Written by: Sari N. Kent Evan Rachel Wood, who starred in the Academy Award nominated drama 'The Wrestler' will next be starring in a historical drama produced by Academy Award winning director ...

It is sad, then, to learn of the vice-ring connections, the arms-running, the addiction to Twinkie bars and, worst of all, the fact that he and Robert Redford nailed that poor actress to the handlebars for the famous bicycle scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .

Curses In Contention Guy Lodge looks at Oscar's racial, gender and sexual orientation divides.

Fans of "The Twilight Zone" are observing the 50th anniversary of the classic television anthology this year.

A group of Chinese people who visited Park City on Monday apparently had never heard of Robert Redford, the iconic movie star who founded the Sundance Film Festival.

Even though Tamara Reynolds and Zora O'Neill have both cooked at big-name NYC restaurants, you'll find no reduction squiggles or poncy usage of "mouthfeel" in their new cookbook "Forking Fantastic! Put the Party Back in Dinner Party". Nope: These ladies - who've run Sunday Dinner, an invite-only underground supper club, out of their Astoria homes ...

It was 91 years ago that Sgt. Alvin York , a corporal in the U.S. 328th Infantry Regiment, single-handedly killed 28 German soldiers during a battle in France, forcing the surrender of 132 more.

Elevator Repair Service theater troupe members Mike Iveson and Lucy Taylor rehearse for The Sun Also Rises, an experimental theater performance. [JOHN COLLINS Special to the Times] Novels get turned into plays and movies all the time, and when the stories are classics, they usually come out much worse for the wear in the journey from page ...

Taxi driver: Red West and Souleymane Sy Savane strike up an unusual friendship in 'Goodbye Solo' enlarge There was a time when a buddy film would have men being men and women, well, stuck at home doing the washing for all the interest that film-makers had in them.