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Skydance has acquired rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ Mike Hammer franchise with plans to develop and produce the bestselling book series as a feature film based on the iconic character. No writers, directors or actors are attached at this time.

Entertainment 360 joins as a producer with Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger producing with Guymon Casady producing for Entertainment 360. Benjamin Forkner and Ken F. Levin will also produce. Collins will executive produce, with Jane Spillane serving as co-producer. Carin Sage will oversee the project for Skydance.

Hammer is the protagonist of a series of hardboiled detective novels, starting with I, the Jury published in 1947, becoming one of the most popular figures of the genre.

With more than 250 million copies of Mike Hammer books sold globally, it is often recognized as the most popular American mystery/thriller series of all time. Hammer is...

Harry Clein, a veteran film publicist who wrote the original press notes for Star Wars and helped develop the innovative internet campaign for The Blair Witch Project, died June 18 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder in Atlanta. He was 82.

His death was announced by spokesperson Mark Pogachefsky.

Clein, along with Bruce Feldman, cofounded the Clein + Feldman agency in 1981. Their first client was director Alan J. Pakula and his film Sophie’s Choice.

With offices on both coasts and quickly developing a reputation as an innovative shop for independent distributors, producers and filmmakers, the agency became Clein + White in 1989, with the addition of Cara White as a partner and the departure of Feldman for a studio career. Clein + White closed in 2000, with Clein focusing on producing and marketing consultation. He also taught at the Los Angeles Film School.

Earlier in his career, Clein was a unit publicist on such films as All the President’s Men,...

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) Annual Gala in the Hamptons took place at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY.

Bryan Adams performing at Pcf Annual Gala in the Hamptons

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The summer benefit supported the 15th Annual Pcf Pro-Am Tennis Tournament and celebrated over $788 million raised in the past quarter-century for prostate cancer research. Founder Michael Milken and The Gala in the Hamptons weekend hosts and sponsors welcomed guests to enjoy, engage and be entertained while helping to fund the next groundbreaking discoveries in cancer research.

Notable attendees included: Michael Milken, U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, Stewart Rahr, Rob Citrone, Tom Lee, Roger and Roxann Taylor, Tom and Gretchen Jordan, Arthur Becker, Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, Artie Rabin, Leon and Leesa Wagner, Howard Lutnick, Cliff and Barbara Sobel, Michael and Margie Loeb, David and Sybil Yurman, Larry Leeds and Lauren Vernon, Jeff and Mei Sze Greene,...

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) hosted the 19th Annual Gala in the Hamptons at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY during the 14th Annual Charles Evans Pcf Pro-Am Tennis Tournament weekend which raised $4 million.

John Fogerty

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Founder Michael Milken and The Gala in the Hamptons weekend hosts and sponsors welcomed guests to enjoy, engage and be entertained while helping to fund groundbreaking discoveries in cancer research. This year’s entertainment was provided by Grammy award winning musician John Fogerty.

Notable attendees included: Michael Milken (Founder), Dr. Jonathan Simons, Plum Simons, Senator Lindsey Graham, U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, John Fogerty, Richard Merkin, Nick Bollettieri, Robert Citrone, Joel Pashcow, Tom and Ann Tenenbaum Lee, Glenn Myles, Jennifer Myles, Mitch Modell of Modell’s Sporting Goods, Carissa Kranz, Jason Rabin, Nicole Rabin, Igor Tulchinsky and Valentina Pavlenko, George Walker, Nancy Walker,...

Larry Goldman, veteran public relations executive who co-founded the Bender Goldman Helper agency, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 64. The Bronx native and lifelong Yankees fan began his professional career as a page at NBC, working for Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” when it still shot in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s and his first job in public relations was at Jay Bernstein Public Relations. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 (Photos) Following Bernstein, Goldman joined the firm of Stan Rosenfield & Associates, where he was made a partner under the Rosenfield/Goldman banner.

London, Sept 16: Women fans throwing their underwear at Sir Tom Jones on stage originally started off as a stunt, a new book has claimed.

Hollywood PR king Jay Bernstein said that he paid girls to toss fake room keys and underwear at Jones in Las Vegas in 1968.

In his memoirs Starmaker, Bernstein said that Jones never knew the true story.

He claimed that Jones'.

Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe has never been more popular. From "My Week With Marilyn" (now out on DVD) to the TV show "Smash," to a new photo book written by the daughter of the photographer credited with discovering the future superstar, Monroe is still as hot as she was in her heyday.

Susan Bernard's "Marilyn, Intimate Exposures" features previously unseen images of Marilyn taken by her father, Bruno Bernard, including the iconic photo of the blonde bombshell in the white halter dress on the set of "The Seven Year Itch."

Before she became an author, Bernard was famous in her own right: She was a Playboy Playmate and starred in the '60s cult classic, "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"

"We're a cult family," she told Moviefone with a laugh. She was once married to "The Exorcist" star Jason Miller and their son, Joshua, starred in two '80s cult films,...

Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe has never been more popular. From "My Week With Marilyn" (now out on DVD) to the TV show "Smash," to a new photo book written by the daughter of the photographer credited with discovering the future superstar, Monroe is still as hot as she was in her heyday. Susan Bernard's "Marilyn, Intimate Exposures" features previously unseen images of Marilyn taken by her father, Bruno Bernard, including the iconic photo of the blonde bombshell in the white halter dress on the set of "The Seven Year Itch." Before she became an author, Bernard was famous in her own right: She was a Playboy Playmate and starred in the '60s cult classic, "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" "We're a cult family," she told Moviefone with a laugh. She was once married to "The Exorcist" star Jason Miller and their son, Joshua, starred in two '80s cult films,...

"I'd be in the airport and I'd be stopped: 'Didn't you used to be Mike Hammer?' " Stacy Keach recalls good-humoredly. "And then it was, 'Didn't you used to be the warden in 'Prison Break'? And then it was 'Didn't you used to be Stacy Keach?' "Rest assured. Stacy Keach is still Stacy Keach—affable, articulate, and thoughtful. Though perhaps best known as the cool and canny detective Mike Hammer or the paternal warden Henry Pope, the veteran actor has never stopped acting. Indeed, he is currently appearing in Jon Robin Baitz's new play, "Other Desert Cities," at Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse through Feb. 7. He plays staunchly conservative and emotionally torn husband-father Lyman Wyeth, who heads a well-heeled Palm Springs family crippled by lies and secrets. (The cast features Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Elizabeth Marvel, and Thomas Sadowksi.) Thematic motifs include compassion vs.

The title of this Bravo series "Flipping Out" would make a lot more sense if the star of the show, real estate investor Jeff Lewis, would actually flip out once in a while.

The truth is, Lewis is many things, but he's not really a flipper-outer, so don't watch this show's season finale if you wish to see him blow a few gaskets.

He's an interesting enough fellow, however, who rehabs rundown homes in Los Angeles and "flips" them for profit (which happens to be the other meaning of the title...

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal are fueling reports they're giving their romance another chance - after being spotted kissing and cuddling at a post-Oscars Vanity Fair party on Sunday night. The couple split in 1997 after a stormy 18-year romance, but arrived at the party hand in hand - and now pals insist they're even planning to wed. The pair's agent pal Jay Bernstein claims Farrah's devotion to her ex during his battle with leukemia touched actor O'Neal, and prompted him to start thinking romantically about the actress. Bernstein says, "Farrah's changed a lot in the past few years. Her acting career has become less important to her than her family. She's been right there for Ryan." And O'Neal's second wife Leigh Taylor-Young admits Farrah is just what Ryan needs in his life right now. She says, "He's like a wild stallion and he needs someone larger than life - someone like Farrah - to reel him in."...