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The Dark Knight Rises

Jessica Biel keeps losing plum roles to Anne Hathaway

If Justin Timberlake really wants to make his new wife, Jessica Biel, happy, he’ll deliver Anne Hathaway’s head on a plate this Christmas. According to the New York Daily News, Biel is “fuming” over the fact that she has lost two plum roles to the Oscar-buzzy brunette: Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” and Fantine in “Les Miserables.” Could it be that Biel is more Lifetime movie than Cannes Film Festival? Read More

CCSF trustees failed to stop obvious crisis

Your editorial about City College of San Francisco (“Local community must help keep CCSF doors open,” July 17) did not address either the cause of the problems or solutions.   Read More

President Obama lands in Bay Area early after unscheduled stop to mourn Aurora victims

President Barack Obama touched down in San Francisco Sunday evening for a brief fundraising visit, following a stop in Colorado to mourn the victims of a mass movie theater shooting that left 12 dead Friday. President Obama, who was originally scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area on today, arrived at San Francisco International Airport at 8:15 p.m. Sunday. Read More

President Obama honors shooting victims at Colorado vigil

President Barack Obama visited with friends and family of the Colorado movie theater shooting victims on Sunday, joining local officials and residents in mourning those who died. Twelve died and 58 were wounded early Friday when a lone shooter, armed with three guns and clad in body armor, opened fire at a midnight screening of the new Batman movie. Read More

‘Dark Knight’ a powerful summer epic

Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third in his Batman series, and eighth Batman movie overall (counting the 1966 comedy), is the biggest of them all. Coming in at nearly three hours featuring a story spanning years, it's a battle epic for the ages. But it’s also rooted in the world’s current economic woes, and growing frustration over a widening gap between the ultra-rich and the have-nots. Read More

Joseph Gordon-Levitt weighs in: Who is Hesher?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
He knows what you’re going to ask, but his lips are sealed. Maybe it’s because he has come to L.A.’s Luxe Hotel to talk about “Hesher,” the moving, wildly unconventional new drama opening Friday about a belligerent metalhead who, it turns out, just might be Jesus. Or maybe it’s because Joseph Gordon-Levitt is honoring Christopher Nolan’s gag order. Even that he will not say. Read More
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