Film director David Fincher began his career in Hollywood as a special effects man working for director George Lucas. Eighteen and fresh out of high school when he joined the Lucas team for 1983's Return of the Jedi, Fincher has since forged a path throu...

University Wire 10-19-1999 (Daily Lobo) (U-WIRE) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- At Friday night's opening of "Fight Club" in Los Angeles, thousands of fans gathered for several blocks outside the famous Fox Theater in Westwood to see the new David Fincher film starring Brad Pitt and...

University Wire 10-19-1999 (The Parthenon) (U-WIRE) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Feeling burnt out? All the little nagging irritations, doubts and disappointments of life starting to add up and get you down? Here's a solution: go get the livin' tar beat out of you. That is...

A star of Ireland's Gaelic football league was exposed Thursday as a director of an illegal dog-fighting club, an underground gambling activity that has wrecked the reputation and career of Atlanta Falcons football player Michael Vick.The 17-month undercover investigation by BBC Northern Ireland's "Spotlight" program,...

Steve Coogan is the toast of Sundance. The British actor stars in the biggest acquisition of the film festival, "Hamlet 2," a bawdy comedy directed by Andy Fleming that takes politically incorrect jabs at inspirational teacher flicks like "Mr. Holland's Opus."Focus Features bought the film...