Movie Promotion Confused With Bomb in L.A. (AP)

April 29, 2006

AP - A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming "Mission: Impossible III" got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.

With Movie Due, 'Da Vinci' Debate Persists (AP)

April 29, 2006

FILE**This undated photo released by Sony Pictures shows actors Audrey Tautou and Tom Hanks in a scene from the suspense thriller 'The Da Vinci Code.' The film, based on the novel by Dan Brown, will be released May 17-19 around the world. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures, Simon Mein)AP - A line from Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" tells you why it's easily the most disputed religious novel of all time: "Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false."


Herzog nourishes rural Bavarian roots (Reuters)

April 29, 2006

German director Werner Herzog attends the San Francisco International Film Festival in San Francisco on April 26, 2006. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - Werner Herzog, the German film director whose subjects include a man eaten by a grizzly bear, is fascinated by the interaction between humans and animals.