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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 2004
Page
2
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Steven Spielberg will adapt H G Wells classic War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise to star. Principal photography starts in November for Paramount and DreamWorks. J J Abrams to direct Mission Impossible 3, with Cruise in the lead, shooting slated for next summer in Berlin.
A Los Angeles production launching August 28 parodies the morality play Hell House with Bill Maher as Satan and Andy Richter as Jesus. Producer Maggie Rowe of Center for Inquiry West says the spoof uses the original script and effects to lampoon fundamentalist beliefs about hell. The 1995 Arvada church creation by Rev Keenan Roberts inspired the staged satire.
Patty Duke and her sons Mackenzie Astin and Sean Astin pose after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The event ties into Rob erts, The Youth Group, and a controversial play Hell House led by pastor Roberts.
On August 18 various events shaped history including Hurricane Alicia in 1983 causing over 1 billion dollars in damage and 22 deaths, Virginia Dare's birth on Roanoke Island in 1587, and Tennessee's 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment. The record also notes major milestones from 1846 Santa Fe capture to 1982 stock market activity and 2000s events in immigration and international affairs.
Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is 87, actress Shelley Winters 84, Rosalynn Carter 77, Roman Polanski 71, Robert Redford 67, Johnny Preston 65, Christopher Jones 63, Henry G. Sanders 62, Martin Mull 61, Nona Hendryx 59, Patrick Swayze 52, Steve Wilkinson 49, Denis Leary 47, Madeleine Stowe 46, Craig Bierko 39, Everlast 35, Christian Slater 35, Edward Norton 35, Malcolm-Jamal Warner 34, Dirk Lance 28, Mika Boorem 16.
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