Photo Coverage: On the Red Carpet at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
by Walter McBride - May 6, 2014
The White House Correspondents' Association? just held its Centennial dinner on Saturday, May 3, 2014.
Founded in 1914 to represent the White House press corps, the association marks its centennial this year. It works to maintain independent news media coverage of the president, advocating for access, handling logistics for pools of reporters who stay close to the president and those who travel with him, and providing scholarships to journalism students. BroadwayWorld brings you special photo coverage from the red carpet below!
Lithgow and Pinto Join Franco in 'Rise of the Apes' Film
by Jessica Lewis - Jun 23, 2010
The Hollywood Reporter reveals today that John Lithgow and Freida Pinto will join the previously announced James Franco in the Fox prequel to Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Apes, for the big screen. The film is being directed by Rupert Wyatt and centers on a scientist (Franco) who is using apes to test a cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Things go sour when the scientist brings the main subject, an ape named Caesar, home with him to keep him out of reach of other researchers who plan to harm him. In the film, Lithgow is set to portray Franco's father, stricken with Alzheimer's disease. Pinto will play a primatologist.
