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Civil case against Alec Baldwin, ‘Rust’ movie producers advances toward a trial

Civil case against Alec Baldwin, ‘Rust’ movie producers advances toward a trial

Published by Sam Flores

Nearly two years after actor Alec Baldwin was cleared of criminal charges in the “Rust” movie shooting death, a long simmering civil negligence case is inching toward a trial this fall. On Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a summary judgment motion requested by the film producers Rust Movie Productions LLC, as well as actor-producer Baldwin and his firm El Dorado Pictures to dismiss the case. During a hearing, Superior Court Judge Maurice Leiter set an Oct. 12 trial date. The negligence suit was brought more than four years ago by Serge Svetnoy, who served as the chief lighting technician on the problem-plagued western film. Svetnoy was close friends with cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and held her in his arms as she lay dying on the floor of the New Mexico movie set. Baldwin’s firearm had discharged, launching a .45 caliber bullet, which struck and killed her. The Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M. in 2021. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Svetnoy was the first crew member of the ill-fated western to …

Alec Baldwin Set for THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast

Alec Baldwin Set for THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast

Published by Daniella Wilson

Alec Baldwin, the award-winning actor who has distinguished himself on the stage and screen for nearly a half-century, will sit down with yours truly at the upcoming Boulder International Film Festival for a career-retrospective conversation that will also be recorded as an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. The event will kick off at 7:45 pm on Saturday, April 11, at the historic Boulder Theater. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, March 13, at BIFF1.com. Baldwin, 67, first made his name in films such as 1988’s Beetlejuice, Working Girl and Married to the Mob and 1990’s The Hunt for Red October. Later big screen credits include 1992’s Glengarry Glen Ross, 1996’s Ghosts of Mississippi, 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums and Pearl Harbor, 2003’s The Cooler (for which he received an Oscar nomination), 2004’s The Aviator, 2006’s The Departed, 2009’s It’s Complicated, 2012’s To Rome with Love, 2013’s Blue Jasmine, 2014’s Still Alice and 2019’s Motherless Brooklyn. Remarkably, he has found even greater success on the small screen, most famously on NBC’s Saturday Night …

The Wandering Physicist | Alec Wilkinson

The Wandering Physicist | Alec Wilkinson

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be much smarter than I am, to be able to hold in mind like Tolstoy the complicated cross-weavings of War and Peace. Or to be able to build one of those imaginary mathematical structures so abstruse that only a few people in the world know enough mathematics to see them. Specialists of the most rarified kind are what such people are, but occasionally their intelligence is broad as well as deep, and they wander among disciplines making lasting contributions. In the twentieth century, perhaps no physicist, and maybe no scientist, ranged more widely or with more effect than Luis Alvarez, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for using new methods to find subatomic particles that no one had ever seen before. In addition to the work for which he was given the Nobel Prize, Alvarez invented the radar system that enabled pilots to land by themselves at night or when fog or bad weather had obscured an airfield; before that they had to …