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• 'Gone With the Wind's' Bonnie Blue Butler dies
  Film News: King's showbiz career was short -- Cammie King, who played the adorable daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," died Sept. 1 in Fort Bragg, Calif., of cancer. She was 76. […]
• News shakeup scrambles Alphabet
  TV News: Westin's departure raises new questions -- Quietly over the past year, Anne Sweeney's Disney/ABC TV Group cabinet has undergone a major transformation. […]
• Vradenburg to receive Hassanein Award
  Film News: Exec to be feted at ShowEast convention -- Todd Vradenburg, executive director of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, has been selected to receive the Salah M. Hassanein Humanitarian Award at the upcoming ShowEast convention. […]
• 'Beetlejuice' actor dies after fall
  Film News: Shadix appeared in about 75 films and TV shows -- Thesp Glenn Shadix, known for his role as Otho the interior decorator in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice," died Sept. 7 following a fall in Birmingham, Ala. He was 58. […]
• 'Tree' close to finding new home
  Top News: Apparition moving out of theatrical distribution -- With Terence Malick's "The Tree of Life" close to finding a new distributor, Bill Pohlad's Apparition is quietly getting out of the theatrical distribution game. […]
• Pioneering Welsh broadcaster dies
  TV News: Edwards headed Wales' SC4 -- Internationally feted pioneering Welsh broadcaster Owen Edwards, who established network S4C, died Aug. 30. He was 79 and had been ailing from Parkinson's disease. […]
• TV producer, ad exec Michel dies
  Obituary: He worked on CBS soap 'Edge of Night' -- Longtime TV producer Werner Michel, who worked on such Eye shows as "Edge of Night," died Aug. 27 in New York. He was 100. […]
• The Way Back
  Film Reviews: An impressive but not especially immersive true story of four POWs who escaped the Siberian Gulags. […]
• 'Bonanza' creator Dortort dies
  TV News: Producer-scribe wrote other westerns too -- Writer-producer David Dortort, who created "Bonanza," died in his sleep Sept. 5 in Westwood, Calif. He was 93. […]
• Sony Pictures Imageworks, Disney among honorees
  Film News: Studios to draw Intl. 3D Society awards -- Two film studios -- Sony Pictures Imageworks and Walt Disney -- will be among the 2010 recipients of the Intl. 3D Society's Lumiere Awards, which will be presented at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Oct. 19. […]