ROBERT DURST PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO MURDER IN LA COURT

Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday (7 NOV. 2016) in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife.

The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during a long-awaited appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom in the death of Susan Berman 16 years ago.

"I do want to say here and now though I am not guilty," a pale and frail-looking Durst said in court. "I did not kill Susan Berman."

Durst's statement came after his attorney unsuccessfully argued to ban news media cameras from the courtroom.

Prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty against Durst.

Durst was already a well-known figure in his native New York. But he became a national name when HBO aired the documentary "The Jinx" that followed his life and cast suspicion on him involving several crimes.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have been seeking to bring Durst to California since shortly after his arrest in March 2015.

POOL

Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

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Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife.

The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during a long-awaited appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom in the death of Susan Berman 16 years ago.

"I do want to say here and now though I am not guilty," a pale and frail-looking Durst said in court. "I did not kill Susan Berman."

Durst's statement came after his attorney unsuccessfully argued to ban news media cameras from the courtroom.

Prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty against Durst.

Durst was already a well-known figure in his native New York. But he became a national name when HBO aired the documentary "The Jinx" that followed his life and cast suspicion on him involving several crimes.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have been seeking to bring Durst to California since shortly after his arrest in March 2015.

POOL

Los Angeles - 7 November 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, defendant:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

ROBERT DURST: PARTICIPATING IN DOCUMENTARY 'THE JINX' WAS 'STUPID,' PUT HIM IN JAIL

A close friend of Robert Durst told prosecutors for months that the real estate heir did not confess any killing to him.

Lawyers for Durst presented transcripts in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday (17 FEB.) that showed Nathan Chavin denying that Durst indicated he killed their mutual friend Susan Berman.

Chavin says he waffled for months because of a struggle between loyalties to Durst and Berman.

It took seven months before he told prosecutors Durst told him: "It was her or me. I had no choice."

Defense lawyers suggested Chavin made up the story to curry favor with Durst's brother.

Chavin did business with the New York real estate development empire headed by Douglas Durst.

Chavin says the brothers hate each other and Douglas Durst feared his older brother and wanted him locked up.

Robert Durst told Chavin he was stupid to participate in the documentary about his life "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."

Durst told Chavin in a recorded jail phone call played Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom that the filmmaker had put him behind bars.

Chavin reminded Durst on the call that he counseled him not to participate in "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst." The film unearthed new evidence implicating Durst in three killings.

Durst has pleaded not guilty to murder in the 2000 killing of death of Susan Berman in Los Angeles.

Chavin is testifying in a hearing to record testimony from witnesses who are old or fear for their safety in case they're not able to testify at a trial in the Berman case.

POOL

FILE: Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife.

The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during a long-awaited appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom in the death of Susan Berman 16 years ago.

"I do want to say here and now though I am not guilty," a pale and frail-looking Durst said in court. "I did not kill Susan Berman."

Durst's statement came after his attorney unsuccessfully argued to ban news media cameras from the courtroom.

Prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty against Durst.

Durst was already a well-known figure in his native New York. But he became a national name when HBO aired the documentary "The Jinx" that followed his life and cast suspicion on him involving several crimes.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have been seeking to bring Durst to California since shortly after his arrest in March 2015.

POOL

Los Angeles - 7 November 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

DURST APPEARS IN NEW ORLEANS COURT; POLICE SAY HE HAD A REVOLVER WITH HIM WHEN ARRESTED

Millionaire Robert Durst agreed Monday (16 MARCH 2015) to return to Los Angeles to face a 15-year-old murder charge after muttering that he "killed them all" in a documentary about his links to three sensational killings.

Robert Durst, 71, appeared before a judge in New Orleans after FBI agents arrested him before HBO's broadcast of Sunday's final episode of the documentary.

He is charged in the shooting death of Susan Berman, a mobster's daughter who acted as his spokeswoman. He has also long been suspected in the death of his wife, Kathleen Durst, and was acquitted years ago in the death of an elderly neighbor.

In the finale of the documentary that authorities hope will finally lead to a conviction, he muttered that "killed them all, of course."

He shuffled into the courtroom with his hands shackled at his waist, wearing sandals and an orange jumpsuit. He turned to the gallery and smiled, then appeared to fall asleep just before the hearing started. Later, he answered "yes" to questions from the judge about whether he was waiving extradition from Louisiana state to California.

But one of his lawyers, Dick DeGuerin, said the trip may be delayed because New Orleans prosecutors are considering other unspecified charges. He wouldn't elaborate, and spokesman Christopher Bowman said the Orleans Parish district attorney's office won't comment.

A police report said Durst was in possession of a revolver when he was arrested. In Louisiana, a person needs a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and it was not immediately clear if Durst had a permit.

A former prosecutor who reopened one of the cold cases against Durst years ago, Jeanine Pirro, said Monday that his own words, recorded during and after a lengthy interview he gave to the filmmaker, are enough to convict him.

In the finale of "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," Durst acknowledges similarities in the handwriting of a letter he wrote and another one sent anonymously to Beverly Hills Police alerting them to his friend's "cadaver." Then he went to the bathroom, still wearing his live microphone.

What followed was bizarre rambling in which Durst said, apparently to himself, "There it is. You're caught" and "What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course."

Jarecki and his co-writer and cinematographer Marc Smerling answered some of the many questions raised by Durst's audiotaped comments in a New York Times interview published Monday.

They said they never confronted Durst about what he said in the bathroom, but that they did share what they found with authorities last year as they were preparing the film to be aired.

Durst willingly talked with Jarecki on camera. They met after the filmmaker told a fictionalized account of Durst's story in "All Good Things," a 2010 film starring Ryan Gosling.

The making of the documentary took three years, and the bathroom audio was discovered by an editing crew last June, Jarecki said.

For the filmmakers, the audiotape tipped the scales - they not only believe he's responsible for the murders, but that he's capable of more violence. Jarecki told the Times that they hired security and were relieved when Durst was finally arrested.

Berman was the daughter of an associate of Las Vegas mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky who spoke out on Durst's behalf after his wife disappeared. She was killed at her home near Beverly Hills with a bullet to the back of her head.

Durst then lived as a mute woman in a Texas boarding house until 2001, when dismembered parts of Black's body were found floating in Galveston Bay. He fled house arrest, then turned up shoplifting in Pennsylvania.

Lewis told that jury that Durst shot Black in self-defense, and he was acquitted of murder, despite admitting that he dismembered Black's body.

AP Television

New Orleans, March 16, 2015

1. Various of attorneys for Robert Durst leaving the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

2. SOUNDBITE Dick DeGuerin, Attorney for Robert Durst:

"let me just say that we came here to waive jurisdiction and go back to California and get it on. Bob Durst didn't kill Susan Berman. He's ready to end all the rumor and speculation and have a trial. But we were frustrated because local authorities are considering filing charges on him here and holding him here. We're ready to go to California and have a trial. See you later."

3. Various of who is believed to be Robert Durst arriving by sheriff's vehicle transport at a secure back entrance to the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse complex, which is next to the Orleans Parish jail

4. Various exteriors of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

ROBERT DURST PROSECUTOR SEEKS VIDEOTAPED TESTIMONY, CITING FEAR FOR WITNESSES

Prosecutors who charged New York real estate heir Robert Durst with the murder of his best friend in Los Angeles want to videotape testimony from witnesses they fear could die or be killed before trial.

Deputy District Attorney John Lewin said Wednesday that prosecutors fear for the safety of witnesses because Durst is accused of killing a witness in the 1982 disappearance of his wife.

Lawyers for Durst objected to taking conditional testimony and suggestions the 73-year-old Durst, who is using a wheelchair and in custody, is a threat to anyone.

Lewin says Durst is worth $100 million and is suspected of killing Susan Berman, who was allegedly killed in 2000, before she was expected to be interviewed by police about the suspected murder of Kathleen Durst in New York.

Pool

FILE: Los Angeles, 7 November 2016

Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

Ellen Strauss, a friend of millionaire Robert Durst's first wife Kathleen Durst, said she is "over the moon" about his arrest.

Strauss has been investigating the death of her friend for over 30 years and feels vindicated by Durst's arrest.

"I will take his going to jail anyway I can, I'm not fussy, he can only go to jail once. What I would like is for him to tell us, on his death bed if he has to, where he put Kathy's body or pieces of it," said Strauss.

Strauss said she has spoken to Kathleen Durst's family and said they are "very happy" with the arrest.

"They've finally seen an end to it. You know she has a mother that's 101-years old living at home, 101 and not knowing for the last 33 years where her daughter is," said Strauss.

Durst was charged Monday in Los Angeles with first-degree murder in the shooting of Susan Berman, the daughter of a prominent Las Vegas mobster. Durst has also been suspected _ but never charged _ in the disappearance of his first wife in New York.

He could face the death penalty under special circumstances that allege he ambushed Berman and murdered a witness to a crime.

Authorities found more than a quarter-pound of marijuana and a revolver in Durst's hotel room when he was arrested over the weekend, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Durst appeared before a judge for a second straight day on Tuesday to face the drug and weapons charges.

In 2003, he was acquitted of murder in a dismemberment death in Texas.

In a documentary that just wrapped up about Durst's troubled life, he mumbled about how he "killed them all," providing a dramatic kick to the end of the series. But a law enforcement official said his arrest on the murder charge was based on words he wrote.

Analysis linked a letter Durst wrote to his friend Susan Berman a year before her killing with one that pointed police to her body, and that was the key new evidence in the long-dormant investigation into the 2000 killing, the official not authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

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New York - March 17, 2015

1. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I'm over the moon, absolutely over the moon. That's why I agree to do all these interviews, I'm exhausted. I wish my friend Eleanor Schwank, who worked with me on this, who just passed away could see it."

3. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I will take his going to jail anyway I can, I'm not fussy, he can only go to jail once. What I would like is for him to tell us, on his death bed if he has to, where he put Kathy's body or pieces of it."

5. Ellen Strauss, Friend of Kathleen Durst

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"They're very happy. They've finally seen an end to it. You know she has a mother that's 101 years old living at home, 101 and not knowing for the last 33 years where her daughter is."

7. Ellen Strauss, Friend of Kathleen Durst

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I haven't thought that far ahead, I mean I don't expect he is going to get off scot-free, I really don't. I think this time we've got him. He stabbed himself. He hoisted himself on his own petard whatever you want to call it. I am not thinking that way at all. I really think this time we've got him."

9. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst, walking outside

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I think the trial is another chapter. I mean I'm waiting for that to be the nail in his coffin. He's got to squeak out of this one, that would be really amazing."

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"How hard everybody worked, how hard all of us worked and it now seems that maybe it paid off, that it did pay off. I know that that the last chapter isn't written yet, but that is what life is all about surprises."

12. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

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SHOTLIST

1, Video clip - 'Control' - Puddle Of Mudd

2. SOT Wesley Reid Scantlin (lead singer) - on what 'Control' is about - "Control is a song, it is just your basic song about a relationship, you get involved with one person in the beginning and then 6, 7 months later they are a different person and they are treating you kind of cruddy and then it is kind of about letting go of that person and moving on with your life. "

3. Video clip

4. SOT Wesley Reid Scantlin - on the video - " We shot the video in Jacksonville Florida and Fred Durst directed it and it is kind of ironic because when I was there in Jacksville the first day day and it was 110 degrees out and we were on some old abandoned highway and he told me that I was going to be kicked out of my girlfriend's car on the way to a gig, and I was like wow man, that has actually happened to me. I wasn't on the way to a gig but I have been kicked out of a girlfriend's car."

5. Video clip

6. SOT Wesley Reid Scantlin (on plans for the future): " Well we are just touring, we are writing a a lot of music, we have been writing a lot of new material since then , for the last 7 or 8 months. And we plan to continue to tour , and continue to write new material and then once we get a chance to go back into the studio, we are going to go back in to record another album and it shouldn't be too hard."

7. Video clip

GRUNGE-METAL ROCKERS COME CLEAN ON THE SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS

With a supporter like Fred Durst, Kansas City-based band Puddle of Mudd have long been destined for the top of the rock heap.

Not only has the Limp Bizkit frontman championed the group on their way to chart success, he's also directed the video to "Control" - the single taken from their top-selling album "Come Clean".

Frontman Wesley Reid Scantlin says the song's about letting go and moving on - something he's learnt to do on the long path to success.

Considered too mainstream to be labelled nu-metal and too modern-sounding to be allied with grunge, Puddle Of Mudd share elements of both genres.

The original line-up was formed in 1993 around Scantlin - they named themselves after a rehearsal room next to a river which became a swamp overnight after a flood.

The band got their big break when Scantlin went to a concert on Korn's Family Values tour.

The singer passed his band's demo tape to a security guard during Limp Bizkit's set, requesting that his tape be passed to the band's singer Fred Durst.

The rapper liked what he heard and contacted Scantlin who had just parted ways with the rest of the group.

Even the phone call from Durst failed to persuade the musicians to re-form, but Durst flew Scantlin over to Los Angeles, where he gathered a new line-up.

Recruiting Paul Phillips (guitar), Douglas Ardito (bass), and Greg Upchurch (drums), Scantlin and Durst negotiated a contract with the Limp Bizkit frontman's own Flawless label and began recording sessions for an album.

The result, 2001's Come Clean, replicated the success of Durst's other discoveries, Staind, selling over 100,000 copies in a matter of weeks.

Fans won't have to wait long for the next instalment - Scantlin says the band has been penning new material over the last few months and will soon be back in the studio.

And they've just been announced as the support act for Korn's first U.S. tour in two years beginning June 20.

MUSIC CLEARANCE DETAILS

TITLE: Control

ARTIST: Puddle Of Mudd

WRITER: Scantlin/Stewart

PUBLISHER: Warner Chappell

LABEL: Flawless/Geffen Records

DIRECTOR OF SEVEN HOUR O.J. SIMPSON DOCUMENTARY TALKS IMPACT, 'JINX,' FX SERIES

The new 7-and-a-half-hour O.J. Simpson documentary "O.J.: Made in America" reaches well beyond the football star's famed 1994 murder trial.

That media spectacle has been explored in numerous look-backs over the years and was the subject of the recent FX series "The People v O.J. Simpson: America Crime Story."

Director Ezra Edelman set out to do something different with ESPN Films' latest entry in its "30 for 30" series.

He says it paid off as he was granted interviews with key players in the trial that haven't spoken in years - including former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman and prosecutor Marcia Clark.

"What I'm interested in is explaining sort of everything that led up to the trial: Who O.J. was as a person, sort of getting into his identity from a racial standpoint, his pursuit of celebrity," explains Edelman.

"But also I want to tell a story about Los Angeles. I want to tell a story about this dynamic between the black community and the LAPD and where this sort of tension and this distrust, how it was bred and how did we arrive at this point in 1994 that sort of helped explain people's responses to what was happening.' And I think when they heard that, they were like, 'oh, OK, that's a different perspective.' Ultimately, the pitch is, I mean, 'This is history. This is a real document of history that I'm trying to put together that you are a part of whether you like it or not. And I would rather you have your own voice speak for yourself.' And I think that worked with a lot of people."

Edelman and producers conducted 73 interviews in two years and combed through hundreds of hours of archival footage from Simpson's football career, media interviews, LAPD archives - and of course the televised trial itself.

Edelman says he was particularly interested in Simpson's time at the University of Southern California, when in 1967 he began his pursuit of mainstream celebrity during a time of heightened racial consciousness for athletes - just blocks away from clashes between the police and black communities of South-Central LA.

"He is this pioneering commercial pitchman as a black athlete before he ever played a down in the NFL. And that two-year period of how someone sort of flips like that was fascinating to me," Edelman said.

"All of this pressure is heaped upon him when you're 21-years-old. And he's like 'Yeah, this is what I'm interested in, I want to be rich and famous.' OK. What's wrong with that? And the fact is, by being rich and famous, by being this pioneering guy who is on television both as a pitchman but also as a broadcaster for ABC and then in the movies, to your point, the effect that that has on America, on black kids watching the image of a black guy on the screen, like, there was a different way that he was impacting people, positively, that in some ways gets forgotten when we sort of now start to parse his identity."

Edelman's documentary comes amid a surge of interest in "true crime" stories on TV, from HBO's "The Jinx," about Robert Durst, to Netflix's "Making a Murderer."

And though Edelman includes many new elements including bloody crime scene photos showing the dead Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman - no, his film doesn't end in a confession a la "The Jinx."

"'The Jinx' is sort of one of those things where, yeah, there is that precedent of someone is doing a six-part docu-series on this controversial figure that many people believe committed murder. It's like well, I guess there is some connection to that," Edelman said.

"Then it's like you pick up the New York Times six weeks later and I hadn't watched it at that point, it was like, 'Oh really, he confessed to murder in the doc?' And I'm like, 'Well, the bar just got raised. I'm like, I don't know what to do with this now.' It's even one more reason why I'm like, 'That's not what I'm doing.'"

The director says he hasn't yet watched FX's acclaimed series about the Simpson trial, which starred the likes of John Travolta and Cuba Gooding Jr. and is expected to be a major Emmy Award contender.

He joked that he'll be able to get over the "personal pain" of a docu-series exploring the same topic in a year or so.

"It's like what the F...," he said.

"You can bring to life this character and all sort of the deep complexities of who he was and what he represented during the trial that is of course incredibly interesting to me, but I can't do that. So maybe I'm a little envious. ... I just was like, 'Oh, I would have loved to do that. I almost don't even want to know that that exists.'"

"O.J.: Made in America" had a brief Oscar-qualifying theatrical run last month.

The first of the five-part series is set to air in the U.S. on ABC on 11 June.

ESPN Films - No re-use/re-sale of any TV clips without clearance/No Archive/No Re-Sale

1. Trailer clip - "O.J.: Made in America"

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 1 June 2016

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ezra Edelman, director:

"I think it's the people in the trial who were the most reluctant, people who were actors in the trial – actors – that were most reluctant because it's been picked over so much. There are these anniversaries every year that reporters and writers and TV people call them up and they want them to do things and they've been sort of playing defense or just like shutting them out for the last two decades. So for me to be able to go say to them, 'Look, this isn't a regurgitation of the trial. I'm not re-litigating anything. I am actually – I have five hours and what I'm interested in is explaining sort of everything that led up to the trial: who O.J. was as a person, sort of getting into his identity from a racial standpoint, his pursuit of celebrity. But also I want to tell a story about Los Angeles. I want to tell a story about this sort of dynamic between the black community and the LAPD and where this sort of tension and this distrust, how it was bred and how did we arrive at this point in 1994 that sort of helped explain people's responses to what was happening.' And I think when they heard that, they were like, 'oh OK, that's a different perspective.' Ultimately, the pitch is, I mean, 'This is history. This is a real document of history that I'm trying to put together that you are a part of whether you like it or not and I would rather you have your own voice speak for yourself.' And I think that worked with a lot of people."

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3. Film clip - "O.J.: Made in America"

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 1 June 2016

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ezra Edelman, director:

"With the time I'm being given, I can explore that 1967-68 O.J., when he gets to USC and he's just removed from having come from San Francisco and having grown up in public housing in a very black world and all of a sudden he arrives at this lily-white place with a lot of wealthy students, conservative elite and this transformation that happens where two years later, yes, he was the star football player and the Heisman Trophy winner and won a national championship, but he's this pioneering commercial pitchman as a black athlete before he ever played a down in the NFL. And that two-year period of how someone sort of flips like that was fascinating to me."

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5. Trailer clip - "O.J.: Made in America"

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 1 June 2016

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ezra Edelman, director:

"All of this pressure is heaped upon him when you're 21-years-old. And he's like, 'Yeah, but this is what I'm interested in, I want to be rich and famous.' OK. What's wrong with that? And the fact is, by being rich and famous, by being this pioneering guy who is on television both as a pitchman but also as a broadcaster for ABC and then in the movies there is, to your point, the effect that that has on America, on black kids watching the image of a black guy on the screen, like, there was a different way that he was impacting people, positively, that in some ways gets forgotten when we sort of now start to parse his identity."

AP Images

New Orleans, 17 March 2015

7. Still image: Robert Durst transported to prison

AP Images

Houston, 15 August 2014

8. Still image: Robert Durst in courtroom

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 1 June 2016

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ezra Edelman, director:

"'The Jinx' is sort of one of those things where, yeah, there is that precedent of someone is doing a six-part docu-series on this controversial figure that many people believe committed murder. It's like well, I guess there is some connection to that. Then it's like you pick up the New York Times six weeks later and I hadn't watched it at that point, it was like, 'Oh really, he confessed to murder in the doc?' And I'm like, 'Well, the bar just got raised. I'm like, I don't know what to do with this now.' It's even one more reason why I'm like, 'That's not what I'm doing.'"

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10. Trailer clip - "The People v O.J. Simpson: America Crime Story"

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 1 June 2016

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ezra Edelman, director:

"The weird, personal pain of the way I spent all this time working on something that's ultimately 10 hours of television and someone did 10 hours on the same thing. It's like what the F... And maybe also there's a little bit of there are things that you can't do in a documentary that you can do in a docudrama. So Chris Darden is in our film. Well, you have a character actor playing Chris Darden and you can bring to life this character and all sort of the deep complexities of who he was and what he represented during the trial that is, of course, incredibly interesting to me, but I can't do that. So maybe I'm a little envious."

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12. Trailer clip - "The People v O.J. Simpson: America Crime Story"

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 1 June 2016

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ezra Edelman, director:

"So that may have been part of it. I just was like, 'Oh, I would have loved to do that. I almost don't even want to know that that exists.'"

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14. Trailer clip - "O.J.: Made in America"

SHOTLIST:

Tape One

30 mins approx

1. MS Matrix Reloaded poster

2. VS exterior and fans

3. B-roll Din Davis, composer, being interviewed

4. SOT Din Davis, composer

5. WS red carpet

6. B-roll photographers

7. MS Collin Chou with wife on red carpet

8. B-roll Collin Chou on red carpet

9. CA press

10. MS Leslie Bibb posing for photographs

11. B-roll Leslie Bibb being interviewed

12. MS Collin Chou being interviewed

13. SOT Collin Chou

14. Zoom in Clayton Wilson being interviewed

15. VS press

16. Pan from press to Collin Chou being interviewed

17. SOT Clayton Wilson

18. MS Daniel Bernhardt on red carpet

19. Pan up Kikaru, singer

20. MS Daniel Bernhardt on red carpet

21. VS red carpet

22. SOT Daniel Bernhardt

23. B-roll actor being interviewed

24. B-roll Anthony Wong posing for photographs

25. Zoom in Anthony Wong being interviewed

26. CA press

27. Pan from interviewer to Anthony Wong being interviewed

28. B-roll Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment on red carpet

29. SOT Anthony Wong

30. B-roll Rob Zombie on red carpet

31. B-roll Rob Zombie

32. SOT Rob Zombie

33. CA cameraman

34. SOT Oswald Botang

35. Zoom in Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment being interviewed

36. MS Rob Zombie being interviewed

37. WS red carpet

38. MS Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment being interviewed

39. CA crowd

40. VS red carpet

41. B-roll Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment posing for photographs

42. SOT (L-R) Adrian Rayment and Neil Rayment

43. B-roll Hugo Weaving on red carpet

44. CA press

45. B-roll Harold Perrineau being interviewed

46. SOT Harold Perrineau

47. MS Christina Milian

48. MS Hugo Weaving being interviewed

49. B-roll Fred Durst on red carpet

50. MS Jon Voight

51. B-roll Fred Durst being interviewed

52. SOT Fred Durst

53. B-roll Monica Bellucci

54. MS Tom Arnold

55. B-roll Keanu Reeves on red carpet

56. SOT Hugo Weaving. Including soundbite:

"Well, I've always thought that the Matrix was a totally imagined world that was fully realized on screen over the three movies - it's fully realized. You get a very strong glimpse of the Matrix in the first one and this one you're seeing Zion, you're seeing more of the architecture of the Matrix and you get to meet the architect of the Matrix and in the next one there's greater development as well."

57. VS Monica Bellucci being interviewed, including pan up body

58. B-roll Keanu Reeves

59. SOT Monica Bellucci. Including soundbite:

"I learned so much because even though it's just a supporting character I had the chance to play something really strong because Persephone, I mean, she's dangerous, she's mysterious, she's sensual and she's sad."

60. MS Keanu Reeves being interviewed

61. MS Jada Pinkett Smith posing for photographs

62. B-roll Will Smith

63. MS Laurence Fishburne

64. SOT Keanu Reeves. Including soundbite:

"I don't know couldn't distill it down to one thing. I wouldn't want to. It's given me so much - as an actor, as a performer, in my life in films and things, the challenges that it had - the people that I got to work with - it was beautiful. There's so much there."

Tape Two

8 mins approx

1. B-roll Sandra Bullock

2. Medium WS Laurence Fishburne and wife being interviewed

3. Zoom in Laurence Fishburne being interviewed

4. B-roll Carrie-Anne Moss posing for photographs

5. CA press

6. Pan from press to Keanu Reeves being interviewed

7. B-roll Carrie-Anne Moss

8. MS Laurence Fishburne being interviewed

9. SOT Laurence Fishburne. Including soundbite:

"What have I gained personally? Well, aside from the stunning woman that you see next to me - I have perhaps gained a little bit more confidence with regard to my physical body-image."

10. SOT Jada Pinkett Smith

11. Pan up Carrie-Anne Moss being interviewed

12. SOT Carrie-Anne Moss. Including soundbite:

"What haven't I gained? Truly. It's been the most incredible ride. I feel really honoured to be party of it. It's kind of emotional for me because it's been a really profound time of change for me which has come through the work as well and I just really love playing this character and being part of this team."

13. SOT Nona Gaye

14. B-roll Lance Bass

15. MS back of Carrie-Anne Moss

16. MS Joel Silver, producer being interviewed

17. SOT Joel Silver, producer

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SHOTLIST

Various

Los Angeles, 12 June 2008

The Weinstein Company

1. Full trailer: "Igor"

The Weinstein Company

2. Full trailer: "The Longshots"

Twentieth Century Fox

3. Full trailer: "X-Files: I Want To Believe"

Paramount Pictures/ DreamWorks

4. Full trailer: "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"

Universal Pictures

5. Full trailer: "The Express"

SNEAK PREVIEWS

"Igor"

John Cusack heads the all-star voice cast of "Igor," a playfully irreverent 'toon that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a world filled with mad scientists and evil inventions, one talented hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair. Also providing voices: Sean Hayes, Jeremy Piven, Steve Buscemi, and John Cleese. "Igor" is set to hit theaters stateside 19 September 2008.

"The Longshots"

In this fact-based drama, Keke Palmer is Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in a Pop Warner football tournament in the organization's 56-year history. The film is directed by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, and also stars fellow musician Ice Cube. The movie opens in the United States 25 July 2008.

"X-Files: I Want to Believe"

At last, it's the long-awaited, highly anticipated second feature film based on director Chris Carter's television series. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Due to the highly secretive nature of the project, the premise is not yet publicly known, but the director says the movie would stand alone and be apart from the "mythology" of the television series. The film is currently scheduled to be released in the United States on 25 July 2008

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"

The sequel to the 2005 animated hit picks up where the first left off, with New York zoo animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo still stranded on Madagascar. As they leave the island, they suddenly land in the wilderness of Africa. Ben Stiller returns to provide the voice of Alex, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as the crazy limur Julien, David Schwimmer as the hypochondriac giraffe Melman, Chris Rock as Marty and Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria. "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" opens in the United States nationwide 7 November 2008.

"The Express"

This tells the inspirational life story of college football hero Ernie Davis, who became the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Raised in poverty in Pennsylvania coal-mining country, Davis (played by Rob Brown) overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. Actor Dennis Quaid plays coach Ben Schwartzwalder. Following his draft by the NFL, tragedy struck the star athlete and he was never able to take the professional field. His fight led him to become an icon for the burgeoning civil-rights movement dividing America in the early 1960s. The film opens nationwide in the United States 10 October 2008.

SHOTLIST:

LARGE TAPE

79 mins approx

1. SOT Norah Jones

2. SOT No Doubt

3. SOT David Silveria, from Korn

4. SOT John Mayer

5. SOT Dixie Chicks. Including soundbite: "This is thrilling and it reminds you that you are still in the game. Every year that goes by you wonder if people are going to forget about you. We take a lot of time off to have babies and stuff like that. We are most proud of this album so we are most proud of these Grammy's."

6. SOT Rafael Saadiq

7. SOT Tony Bennett

8. SOT Faith Hill

9. SOT Michael Kamen

10. SOT Harvey Fierstein

11. SOT Sheryl Crow

12. SOT Fred Durst

13. SOT Robin Williams

14. SOT Jesse Harris, songwriter

15. SOT The Roots

16. SOT Usher

17. SOT Kelly Rowland

18. SOT Ashanti

19. SOT Foo Fighters

20. SOT Norah Jones. Including soundbite: "I don't know, I'm going to have to move first, get another apartment. It's amazing, career wise this is probably the biggest ever thing that I will ever do. I don't expect another record like this. It kind of happened, it's exciting that it happened but it doesn't happen every day."

21. SOT head of the Grammys

22. SOT Peter Gabriel

23. SOT Simon and Garfunkel

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SHOTLIST

1.Pan of street to exterior shot of movie theater

2.Various exteriors

3.Wide of press line

4.Set up shot Bill Paxton

5.Pan from Bill Paxton to rapper Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)

6.Limo pulling up

7. SOT: BILL PAXTON " I'm very ruthless with my own work and all the other actors, especially when we got to editing phase of the film, if it didn't serve the story then it went out of the window. I wanted a fighting weight of 100 minutes and I didn't want it to be self-indulgent in any way."

8. FILM CLIP 'FRAILTY' Clients please give onscreen credit to Lions Gate Film

9. Set up shots Matthew McConaughey

10.Cutaway people on the street

11. SOT: (about a good thriller) MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY "Good story, intrigue me, don't confuse me, tease me, seduce me, when I get there let me know it wasn't what I expected."

12.Cutaway

13. SOT: (about Janet Jackson and alleged relationship) MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY " She's a sweet, sweet lady, a dear lady and we met at the Grammys and she appreciated what I did and I appreciated what I did and we both got along and swapped some very good music."

14 FILM CLIP 'FRAILTY' Clients please give onscreen credit to Lions Gate Film

15. Set up shot Matthew O'Leary

16. Cutaway Jeremy Sumpter

17. SOT: MATTHEW O'LEARY " You know, my mom was a little worried at first. But my mom and dad talked and my Dad was a big fan of the script. They reached the decision that I was mature enough to see it and if I'm mature enough to see it then I'm mature enough to do it."

18. FILM CLIP 'FRAILTY' Clients please give onscreen credit to Lions Gate Film

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY UNVEILS WHAT MAKES A GOOD THRILLER

The stars of new psychological thriller 'FRAILTY' turned out for it's premiere in Santa Monica Tuesday (9th April 2002).

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY and BILL PAXTON star in the controversial story, which aims to spook its audience before offering ending with a twist.

The story aims to make viewers question personal beliefs, and wonder if two wrongs can make a right.

Paxton ('U-571', 'A Simple Plan') plays a single father of two who tells his sons he's had a vision from God, and must rid the world of demons. The star also directed the film - his feature debut. He explains he was proud to be behind the camera, but became more self-critical than usual in the challenging new role.

" I'm very ruthless with my own work and all the other actors, especially when we got to editing phase of the film, if it didn't serve the story then it went out of the window. I wanted a fighting weight of 100 minutes and I didn't want it to be self-indulgent in any way."

Matthew McConaughey plays a tortured soul who arrives at the offices of the FBI to tell them he knows the identity of a serial killer they've been chasing. His own family, on their quest to free the world of the demons.

The star of 'The Wedding Planner' and 'Ed TV' says the secret to a good thriller is to keep his attention.

"Good story, intrigue me, don't confuse me, tease me, seduce me, when I get there let me know it wasn't what I expected."

The actor also took the chance to touch on his reported relationship with superstar Janet Jackson.

" She's a sweet, sweet lady, a dear lady and we met at the Grammys and she appreciated what I did and I appreciated what I did and we both got along and swapped some very good music."

'Frailty' also stars young Matthew O'Leary, whose previous credits include 'Domestic Disturbance' and who features in the forthcoming 'Spy Kids 2:The Island of Lost Dreams'.

The 14 year old says his parents were nervous at first about letting him star in a film as scary as 'Frailty'.

" You know, my mom was a little worried at first. But my mom and dad talked and my Dad was a big fan of the script. They reached the decision that I was mature enough to see it and if I'm mature enough to see it then I'm mature enough to do it."

His on-screen younger brother, played by Jeremy Sumpter, was also at the premiere.

'Frailty' is released in N America on Friday April 12th.

CLEARANCE DETAILS

FRAILTY

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001 323 692 7300

SHOTLIST:

1. Pan to sign.

2. Various of Mick Jagger walking down red carpet

3. SOUNDBITE: Mick Jagger - Musician (English) - "I think it's a bit different, it had a lot of different styles on it, it's got a slightly different approach, I just enjoy myself, I like to stretch myself."

4. Naomi Campbell walking down red carpet

5. Arrival Alicia Silverstone

6. David Spade walking into theater

7. Sot Alicia Silverstone - "Why wouldn't I be here? I got asked and I'm so flattered that they asked me."

8. Tracey Ullman and Carrie Fisher walking into theater

9. Salma Hayek walking into theater - Various of Selma and UPSOUND: "I think he's fabulous."

10.Jeff Goldblum and guest walking down red carpet Various of singer Mark McGrath from 'Sugar Ray' smiling at cameras

11.Arrival Fred Durst (LImp Bizkit)

12. Sot Mark McGrath - "The fact that he is still so relevant, the fact that he is still so cool and the energy that this man puts out. It's unfair to call him 60 because half the guys my age couldn't last through what he does. We had the pleasure of opening for him a few years ago and to see him on stage I'm like I'm gonna quit. I ran once across the stage, his huge stage, he said you can use my ramps Mark, I went across the stage once and I almost choked and passed out, plus you have got to sing at the same time. He is a rare... the Stones are a rare commodity and it's a real pleasure to be here tonight. I'm going to steal some moves and hopefully some melodies too. You didn't hear it from me right."

13.Arrival Laura Dern & friends

14 Arrival Kate Hudson & husband Chris Robinson (Black Crowes)

15.Clip 'God Gave Me Everything' Mick Jagger

16. Sot Mick Jagger - "It's very exciting, it's very exciting tonight, it's always fun. We are doing a little party for Goddess in the Doorway, it's fun because there are a lot of people here and I'm going to know them, friends."

17.Clip 'God Gave Me Everything'

18.Sot Mick Jagger - "The vibe of it really was I started off in my house and I build it up just me playing the guitar and singing with friends, lots of really good musicians, friends of mine. Then I wrote a couple of songs, I wrote one with Lenny Kravitz, one with Rob Thomas, I had some guests, I had Bono sing on a track called Joy and I had Pete Townsend playing. Most of it is me playing and singing really."

19. Clip 'God Gave Me Everything'

UNSTOPPABLE JAGGER GOES SOLO

Mick Jagger just keeps on rolling. He may be knocking 60 but that doesn't stop him from rocking LA with an exclusive sneak preview of his new solo album 'Goddess in the Doorway.'

Stars old and young all turned up to at the El Rey Theater see his famous stage energy and swiveling hips.

The album has already received critical acclaim.

It seems nothing will stop this Stone from rolling. He's got a world tour in the works, and he has just produced his first film 'Enigma' and says it's not stopping there.

Born in 1943 in Dartford, England, Jagger has become one of the music biz's most famous faces. He attended the London School of Economics - and is as well known for his business savvy as those famous lips -before becoming the defining voices of the 60s counter culture.

SInce forming 39 years ago, The Rolling Stones have made 30 albums, sold millions of albums, and Mick Jagger has also carved out a successful solo career as well.

His colourful personal life is as well-documented as his professional life and he is now the father of seven and a grandfather of two.

Guaranteed a prime postion in the histroy of pop and rock, he personifies the 'sex, drugs and rock & roll' legend.

But depsite the money (his estimated fortune is over $250 million USD), the fame and the legions of gorgeous women, Jagger is still not completely satisfied.

In a intimate TV profile to be broadcast next week, he confesses that he is aggrieved that he has never received an honour from the British monarchy.

Jagger takes a swipe at Britain's royal family for failing to award him any of the nation's coveted royal honours.

While ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Cliff Richard and Elton John sport the knighted title of "Sir", Jagger has yet to be honoured - an apparent irritation.

In theTV documentary to be broadcast next Tuesday, Jagger, 58, jokes about an encounter with Prince Charles.

In an exaggerated upper-class English accent, he holds a mock conversation with himself: "Is it true that you haven't got anything at all? That is rather odd, isn't it."

'Being Mick' will air in Britain and the United States (on ABC-TV) on Thanksgiving (November 22).

Bono, Lenny Kravitz, Pete Townshend and Wyclef Jean - all contributors to the new album - all appear in the documentary.

MUSIC CLEARANCE DETAILS

TITLE: God Gave Me Everything

ARTIST: Mick Jagger

WRITER: Jagger/Kravitz

PUBLISHER: EMI

LABEL: Virgin

MUST PUT ON-SCREEN COURTESY TO FOX FOR FOOTAGE FROM 2002 BILLBOARD AWARDS

SHOTLIST: Las Vegas, Nevada USA 9 December 2002

1. Wide shot red carpet outside Billboard Awards

2. Justin Timberlake being wheeled in by nurses

3. Pan from Billboard sign to Creed on red carpet

4. Tara Reid and JC (from N Sync)

5. Pan of screaming fans

6. Nick Carter on red carpet

7. Zoom into Billboards sign

8. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw walking along red carpet

9. Set-up shot Moby

10. SOT: (English) Moby on a highlight from 2002 "When I was growing up I was a die-hard new-waver and I was in a bar in London in May with the guys from New Order and The Clash - and we were playing songs from New Order and The Clash on the piano and that was pretty cool, too."

11. Set-up shot Nickelback

12. Cutaway

13. SOT: (English) Nickelback on highlights of 2002 "Well, I mean, just sort of being able to travel around the world and play our music and have people know the words. We can go to Japan we can go to Australia, we can go to Europe and everybody seems to know who we are and I think that's a good thing."

14. Set-up shot Fred Durst

15. SOT: (English) Fred Durst on 2002 highlights referencing people downloading music off of napster "Highlights0. finally accepting the fact that you know technology is going to have to be our friend, not our enemy, that's what I was fighting for the whole time and I think everybody's coming to grips with it and and embracing it and to learning how to work with it and that's good."

16. B2K on red carpet

17. Ja Rule and Ashanti on red carpet

SHOW FOOTAGE

18. Avril Lavigne performing 'Complicated'

19. Tim McGraw introducing Creed as Group/Duo of the Year winners

20. Creed accepting award

21. Nelly and the St Lunatics performing 'Hot in Herre'

22. Nelly accepting award for Best Rap Artist of the Year

23. Nickelback winning Hot 100 Single of the Year for 'How You Remind Me'

24. Creed singing on top of the Stratosphere (Vegas casino/landmark)

25. Ashanti winning R&B Artist of the Year

26. Justin Timberlake singing 'Cry Me a River'

27. Puddle of Mudd "She Hates Me'

28. File footage of Michael Jackson performing Billie Jean and Thriller \

29. Chris Tucker presenting Michael Jackson with award at Neverland Valley Ranch

30. Cher receiving Artist Achievement Award from Steven Tyler

31. UPSOUND: Chuck D (founder of Public Enemy) on Jam Master Jay

32. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Queen Latifah, Ja Rule and Naughty by Nature 'Walk This Way.'

BACKSTAGE - APTN

33. SOT: (English) Nelly on his staying power "We see it all the time. People come, people go, groups fall apart before they even get started. So fortunately enough we were like a family who become rappers instead of rappers who became a family."

34. SOT: (English) Darryl 'D.M.C.' McDaniels "All we really was just to get a record on the radio and be like Grand Master Flash, and the First Five and Cold Crush and everybody but Jay was always saying it was going to be big - it was going to be big around the world because that feeling that I got when I first heard rap that feeling that you got! Hang on what's this? We just made sure that feeling never got lost - you know - in the business side of rap and that's why I think we lasted as long as we did."

35. SOT: (English) Moby on Eminem controversy "I have no issue with Eminem. I think he's very talented, I think he's a very fascinating public figure. He's obviously very, very good at what he does, I wish him well and I hope he goes on to have a good life. What I took issue with, not even so much as applies to him, I take issue with any popular culture that glorifies misogyny and homophobia because misogyny and homophobia are abuse and I think Eminem is talented and terrific and I have no real issue with him, I just have issue with culture that glorifies culture and homophobia."

36. SOT: (English) Ashanti "The best advice I've ever received at this point I would say to make sure I continue to have fun or else this will turn into a regular job. So I have to make sure with all the work and travel and 5 am wake-up calls I find time to have fun

BILLBOARD HANDS OUT THE HONOURS

Hip Hop Stars Nelly and Ashanti were the big winners at this year's 2002 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Monday, carting home a total of 14 awards between the two of them.

Nelly won six awards including Artist of the Year, R&B/Hip Hop Artists of the Year as well as Hot 100 Singles Male Artist of the Year, Rap Artists of the Year and Rap Track of the Year.

He was outdone, however by Ashanti - who took home 8 awards. Among the healthy handful of trophies she garnered the R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year, Best R&B Hip-Hop Single of the Year for 'Foolish' and Top New Pop Artists of the Year.

Not bad for a newcomer.

Artists were few and far between on the red carpet outside the awards - but inside the MGM Grand they were thick as thieves.

Most of the awards were given out the previous evening at a party at the MGM Grand.

But the stage was sizzling with hot new talent from this year, and faces long familiar to music fans.

The evening kicked off with performances of 'Sk8ter Boi' and 'Complicated' by newcomer Avril Lavigne.

She received a couple of nominations this year - but went home empty handed. Although performing in front of some of the industry giants could hardly be categorised as an empty experience.

Among the other performers were country star Faith Hill, Justin Timberlake - who was parked on a stool owing to a recent foot injury sustained during rehearsals for the UK's recent Smash Hits awards - and Puddle of Mudd with their hit 'She Hates Me.'

Annie Lennox received the Century Award for her contribution to the music world over the last two decades. She wasn't able to attend in person as she is currently recording a solo album in London - but sent a heartfelt message of thanks.

Next up for marks of achievement was Michael Jackson - who was visited in his reclusive ranch, Neverland by comedy superstar Chris Tucker. There he received a special Billboard Award for 'Thriller' which spent more 35 weeks at number one, more than any other album in the history of the Billboard 200.

Cher took home the Artist Achievement Award - to honour 40 something years in the business for the Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winning, multi-platinum record holder.

The highlight of the evening brought the audience to their feet - about a dozen artists performed a tribute to late musician Jam Master Jay from Run DMC fame.

Onstage to honour the recent murder victim were Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Queen Latifah, Ja Rule, Naughty By Nature and, of course, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler who wrapped up a medley of Run DMC songs with 'Walk this Way.'

Eminem - despite being a no-show took home two awards: Album of the Year for 'The Eminem Show' and R&B/Hip-Hop Album of the Year.

Other big winners who were around to collect their awards were Nickelback with four awards including Hot 100 Single of the Year, Puddle of Mudd who tied the Canadian rockers with four awards having scooped Rock Artist of the Year and Modern Rock Track of the Year.

In fact, Puddle of Mudd is the first group to sweep all four rock awards since U2 did the same a decade ago in 1992.

Four must have been the lucky number for rock groups as Creed also carried home four statues for awards including Group of the Year and Catalog Album of the Year.

The Billboard Awards have been in effect since 1989.

The music ceremony honours the artists and records of the year as determined by the end of the year Billboard charts.

SHOTLIST:

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NETFLIX

1. Trailer clip - "The Keepers"

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 28 June 2017

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan White, director:

"'The Keepers' is a seven-part documentary series currently streaming on Netflix. And it's about the murder of a nun, a young nun, who taught at a high school in Baltimore, in an all-girls high school called Archbishop Keogh. And it starts investigating what she may have known and why she might have died."

NETFLIX

3. Trailer clip - "The Keepers"

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 28 June 2017

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan White, director:

"This is a story that involves so much collusion and so many people outside of the Catholic Church who were a part of the problem. And that involves a lot of government agencies, law enforcement, the State Legislature in Maryland, teachers. So I don't want the story of 'The Keepers' to be relegated to just the failures of the Catholic Church. It's the failures of an entire society, of an entire city."

NETFLIX

5. Trailer clip - "The Keepers"

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 28 June 2017

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan White, director:

"Now, you never know if something is going to become a feature-length documentary, much less a Netflix series. So that wasn't even a glimmer in my eye at the time. The first month that I went to Baltimore was before 'Serial' had come out, the radio documentary. It was far before 'The Jinx' and 'Making a Murderer' had come out. So there really was no predecessor for this long-format, episodic-type of documentary storytelling. That really hadn't caught the cultural zeitgeist yet."

WBEZ

7. Logo - "Serial"

HBO

8. Key art - "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst"

NETFLIX

9. Key art - "Making a Murderer"

10. Key art - "The Keepers"

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 28 June 2017

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan White, director - on his series' title:

"I mean, right when I heard the expression I knew that there was a lot of symbolism to it. So, of course, there are secret keepers and the survivors themselves who've been forced to bury this within themselves. And then there are also the gatekeepers. And the gatekeepers I think are the integral part of the story of 'The Keepers,' the people that have the information and have buried it or hidden it for whatever reason. And so, so much of 'The Keepers' is not only working with the survivors and the pain that they endured, but also having to confront the power structures of the people in position of powers or the perpetrators who hold that information and try to bring the truth to light."

NETFLIX

12. Trailer clip - "The Keepers"

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 28 June 2017

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan White, director - on the series failing to unveil Sister Cathy Cesnik's killer:

"Where we ended the documentary, I think, hopefully, is just the beginning of getting answers. And the documentary's only been out one month now, and we've had so much information flowing in, and I know the police have had so much information flowing in, too. So while I set out the beginning of this saying, 'We're never going to answer who killed this wonderful woman.' Three years later, now that the series is out, I think we're very close to answers and I think it can be solved."

NETFLIX

14. Trailer clip - "The Keepers"

STORYLINE

DOCUMENTARY SERIES 'THE KEEPERS' LOOKS INTO A COLD MURDER CASE, BUT FINDS CONSIDERABLY MORE

When Ryan White began making "The Keepers," he was certain of just one thing - he'd never answer the show's biggest question: "Who killed Sister Cathy Cesnik?"

Cesnik was a nun who taught at the Catholic Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, who disappeared on 7 November 1969. Her body was discovered two months later.

Director White became interested in the case during a chance meeting with one of Sister Cathy's students, who claimed the teacher was murdered because she was going to reveal sexual abuse by two of the school's priests.

Soon, the series began to take shape. White wouldn't just examine the murder, but how the local community was shaped by the death.

"This is a story that involves so much collusion," the director explained. "And that involves a lot of government agencies, law enforcement, the State Legislature in Maryland, teachers. So I don't want the story of 'The Keepers' to be relegated to just the failures of the Catholic Church. It's the failures of an entire society, of an entire city."

While White was initially planning to make a movie on the case, it turned out to be a bigger story than he expected, requiring a big running time.

"The Keepers" is a seven-part, seven-hour documentary series which, when it was proposed it to Netflix three years ago, was still uncommon.

"The first month that I went to Baltimore was before 'Serial' had come out, the radio documentary," White noted. "It was far before (documentary miniseries) 'The Jinx' and 'Making a Murderer' had come out. So there really was no predecessor for this long-format, episodic-type of documentary storytelling. That really hadn't caught the cultural zeitgeist yet."

Netflix debuted "The Keepers" in May, to generally rave reviews, making it one of the frontrunners to nab a nomination for best documentary feature when the primetime Emmy contenders are announced next week.

Although the series ends without revealing Sister Cesnik's murderer, White said he wouldn't be surprised if "The Keepers'" success leads to more information being brought to light.

"The documentary's only been out one month now, and we've had so much information flowing in, and I know the police have had so much information flowing in, too. So while I set out the beginning of this saying, 'We're never going to answer who killed this wonderful woman.' Three years later, now that the series is out, I think we're very close to answers and I think it can be solved."

"The Keepers" is streaming on Netflix now.

'BESSIE,' ACTORS FROM 'TRANSPARENT,' 'AMERICANS' AMONG BIG CREATIVE ARTS WINNERS

The Creative Arts Emmys recognized guest actors for drama and comedy series, with trophies going to Reg E. Cathey for "House of Cards," Margo Martindale for "The Americans," Joan Cusack for "Shameless" and Bradley Whitford for "transparent."

"Bessie," a biopic Bessie Smith starring Queen Latifah as the great blues singer, was honored as best made-for-TV movie at the event held Saturday in downtown Los Angeles.

The Creative Arts ceremony, which focuses primarily on technical achievements, is a precursor to the more star-studded Emmy awards, set for 20 Sept., which honor show-cast regulars, writers, as well as the major shows themselves. (The inclusion TV Movie in the Creative show had many journalists scratching their heads.)

"Game of Thrones" was the night's biggest winner, taking eight Creative Arts awards, including special visual effects and casting.

FX Networks' "American Horror Story: Freak Show," was next with five awards.

"The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," about a privileged New Yorker under a cloud of suspicion in connection with three murders, was honored as best documentary or nonfiction series.

A taped version of the creative arts ceremony will be telecast Saturday, Sept. 19, on the FXX channel. Next week's ceremony with acting, writing and other awards will air live on Fox with host Andy Samberg.

HBO won a leading 29 Emmys on Saturday, followed by NBC with 11. Other tallies included FX Networks with eight awards; ABC, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Fox and PBS with four each; and Amazon, CBS, Discovery Channel and Netflix with three each.

A&E Networks received the Governors Award in recognition of its corporate social responsibility programs.

Among others honored at the creative arts Emmys:

- Host for a reality or reality-competition program: Jane Lynch, "Hollywood Game Night," NBC.

- Voice-over performance: Hank Azaria, "The Simpsons," Fox.

- Unstructured reality program: "Deadliest Catch," Discovery Channel.

- Structured reality program: "Shark Tank," ABC.

- Commercial: #LikeAGirl (Always).

- Animated Program: "Over the Garden Wall," Cartoon Network.

- Writing for a variety special: Louis C.K., "Louis C.K.: Live at the Comedy Store," louisck.net.

- Music composition for a series (original dramatic score): "House of Cards," Netflix.

- Music composition for a limited series, movie or special (original dramatic score): "Bessie," HBO.

- Original music and lyrics: "Inside Amy Schumer," Comedy Central.

- Choreography (multiple winners): "Dancing With the Stars," ABC; "So You Think You Can Dance," Fox.

- Casting for a drama series: "Game of Thrones," HBO.

- Casting for a limited series, movie or a special: "Olive Kitteridge," HBO.

- Casting for a comedy series: "Veep," HBO.

- Costumes for a period fantasy series, limited series or movie: "American Horror Story: Freak Show," FX Networks.

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Los Angeles, 12 Sept. 2015

1. 2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards show open

2. "Bessie" named Outstanding Television Movie

3. "Transparent"'s Bradley Whitford named Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

4. "Shameless"' Joan Cusack named Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

5. "House of Cards"' Reg E. Cathey named Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

6. "The Americans"' Margo Martindale named Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

7. "Hollywood Game Night"'s Jane Lynch names Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

SHOTLIST

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Los Angeles - 28 June 2004

1. Wide Mann's Chinese Theatre

2. Close up "Anchorman" sign with pan to red carpet

3. Close up poster pull out to medium

4. Wide posters

5. Cutaway photographers

6. Medium news van pulling up

7. Medium Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate and cast arriving in news van

8. Wide red carpet

9. Medium Ferrell and Applegate

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Ferrell: (what can fans expect from 'Anchorman'?)

"Just a really fun, kind of imaginative movie that I think kind of different from what you'd expect from this kind of comedy."

(Q: "Is it too chauvinistic?")

"No you will love it."

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11. Film Clip: 'Anchorman'

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Los Angeles - 28 June 2004

12. Medium Garry Shandling

13. Medium Jack Black

14. Medium Gwen Stefani and Tony (from No Doubt)

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Stefani: (talking about Christina Applegate)

"I think she's super talented and super funny. I feel like she's just getting started. I secretly in my heart feel like she has a lot more to come."

16. Medium director Adam McKay

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam McKay:

"That's the funniest thing is no. The entire idea came out of the voice and the character. He saw some documentary about how newsmen freaked out when women came in, did the voice immediately and that was the movie."

18. Medium pan of fans

19. Cutaway photographer

20. Medium Fred Willard and Constance Marie

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Willard: (talking about Will Ferrell)

"He has a charisma that this town seems to love, and an innocence, and a baby like quality that people just took to him and loved him despite his sexism."

22. Medium Fred Durst

23. Wide red carpet

24. Wide carpet with pan

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24. Trailer clip: 'Anchorman'

STARS OF NEWS COMEDY PUT ON A SHOW IN HOLLYWOOD

The stars of 'Anchorman' arrived in style at the film's premiere Monday night (28JUN04) in Los Angeles.

No, Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate and the rest of the cast did not arrive in limos and chauffeured cars. Instead, they appropriately came in a news van complete with a satellite dish on top.

In 'Anchorman,' Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, top-rated anchorman in San Diego, California, during the 1970s.

Life changes for Burgundy when newswoman Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate, marches into the newsroom determined to become the first female anchor.

Burgundy tries to put Corningstone 'in her place', but she refuses to give-up her dream. Soon Burgundy and Corningstone are at war.

Ferrell, who co-wrote the screenplay for 'Anchorman,' said the idea came after he watched a documentary about women breaking into broadcast journalism during the 70's.

Ferrell said fans can expect, "Just a really fun, kind of imaginative movie that I think kind of different from what you'd expect from this kind of comedy."

While Applegate didn't talk much to the press - she wanted to get inside the theatre to watch her new movie - other celebrities were ready to talk about her.

No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani said she came to the premiere simply to support Applegate.

"I think she's super talented and super funny," she said. "I feel like she's just getting started. I secretly in my heart feel like she has a lot more to come."

While Stefani was there to support Applegate, comedian Jack Black was also on hand to lend his support - to United States Presidential hopeful John Kerry.

Black proudly sported a 'Vote John Kerry' t-shirt as he walked down the red carpet.

While Black was full of surprises, so is 'Anchorman.' The film includes cameos from Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn.

'Anchorman' opens in North American theatres on 9 July.

Other scheduled release dates:

UK 10 September 2004

Australia 28 October 2004

Germany 20 January 2005

CLEARANCE DETAILS

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SHOTLIST:

1. Wide of clock

2. Close-up of clock digits

3. Set-up shot of granddaughter of debt clock inventor Helena Durst

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Helena Durst, granddaughter of debt clock inventor:

"If you notice the dollar sign, we actually had to add a dollar sign and a one. It looks a little bit squished together. We had to squeeze everything together."

5. Close of clock

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Helena Durst, granddaughter of debt clock inventor:

"And also highlight the amount of debt that each child is born into this nation which is about 30-thousand dollars"

7. People walking

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Catherine Jones, Vox pop:

"It's pretty scary, it's a pretty big number."

9. Close of clock

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Avi Goldenberg, Vox pop:

"I think we'll be able to handle it, we've got a strong economy, we'll walk through it, just got to have a strong stomach, steel up."

11. Pan from Internal Revenue Service building to clock

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Grams, Vox pop:

"I'm starting to wonder when we're going to start questioning the US government's credit rating. And you know the Federal Reserve's balance sheet is going to be just as risky as all the banks they're saving because they're taking on all this stuff."

13. Close-up of clock

STORYLINE:

In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure - the "1" in 10 (tr) trillion US dollars.

It's marking the federal government's current debt at about 10.2 (tr) trillion US dollars.

The Durst Organisation says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits.

That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.

The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a 2.7 (tr) trillion US dollars debt.

Helena Durst, the inventor's granddaughter, explains the recent modifications: "if you notice the dollar sign. We actually had to add a dollar sign and a one. It looks a little bit squished together. We had to squeeze everything together."

The clock was briefly retired, for two years, from 2000 to 2002, because the clock couldn't display a declining number.

SHOTLIST

1. Various of people dressed as Santa Claus

2. Various of people dressed as Santa Claus skiing and snowboarding

3. Skiers in Santa Claus coats walking with equipment

4. Pan from snow to Santa skiers at resort

5. Various of people getting dressed up as Santa

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ricky Durst, Camelback Mountain Media:

"As they say the weather outside may be frightful but nothing stops Santa on Christmas Eve."

7. Various of Santas at ski resort

STORYLINE

SANTAS ON SKIS

There's no better time to dress up as Santa Claus and hit the snow slopes than on Christmas Eve, and that's exactly what 50 people did on Wednesday (24 DEC 2008) in the US state of Pennsylvania for the Camelback Mountain's annual free Santa ski.

Sleet and rain didn't deter the bearded men from skiing on the Tannersville slopes.

The resort allowed anyone dressed as Santa Claus to ski for free.

The big red suit may seem an unlikely ensemble to wear on the slopes, but many snowboarders thought it would prove to be the perfect outfit for the icy weather.

However once on the slopes, some skiers and snow boarders said hitting the slopes as Santa was a little more difficult than they thought.

But that still wasn't enough to deter people from dressing up as Santa.

"As they say the weather outside may be frightful but nothing stops Santa on Christmas Eve," said Ricky Durst of Camelback Mountain.

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