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(CBS/AP) TORONTO – The Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world’s top cinema showcases and a prelude for contenders at the Academy Awards, will have a broader vibe than usual this year. Stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Glenn Close, Robert De Niro and Viggo Mortensen are on the guest list for the 11-day festival that opens Thursday with an unusually heavy emphasis on music and documentaries. Fall film previewSpecial section: Awards season Pitt is on hand for the premiere of “Moneyball,” a film he has been trying to bring to the screen for years as both star and producer. Directed by Bennett Miller (“Capote”), “Moneyball” casts Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who rebuilt his team on a shoestring budget applying a fresh statistical approach to find under-appreciated players. “Baseball had relied on a form of statistics that just hadn’t been questioned, and this discovery that had been around for 30 years but had been dismissed showed that there’s much more to it,” Pitt said. “There’s a lot of talented people out there who aren’t being used.” Pitt’s “Ocean’s Eleven” pal Clooney stars in two Toronto films, the family drama “The Descendants” from director Alexander Payne (“Sideways”) and his own latest directing effort, the political saga “The Ides of March,” in which he plays a presidential candidate opposite Ryan Gosling...

(CBS/AP) PJ Harvey let England shake all the way to the Mercury Prize, as her eighth studio album beat Adele’s “21” for Best Album. Harvey has become the only artist to win Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize on two separate occasions. Many commentators expected Adele to take home the 20th annual award for Best Album, after she dominated album and single charts across the globe with her sophomore release “21.” However, on Tuesday evening, Harvey was presented with a check for 20,000 pounds – about $31,885 – by show host Jools Holland and, if previous form is anything to go by, will now enjoy dramatically increased sales of the critically acclaimed “Let England Shake.” Accepting her award in a figure-hugging white dress, the Dorset-born musician recalled winning her first Mercury for album “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea” a decade ago. “When I last won, which was 10 years ago on September the 11th 2001. I was in Washington, D.C., watching the Pentagon burn from my hotel window, so it’s good to be here.” The shortlist, which was initially made up of over 240 albums, was whittled down to 12 in July, before the Chair of Judges Simon Frith and a selected panel of musicians and industry insiders picked their final winner on the night. “Let England Shake” was recorded in a Dorset church and features three of...

Steven Bochco, 함양출장업소 a TV producer/writer behind many hit shows over the years, has died at age 74, according to a representative at Steven Bochco Productions. The spokesperson said Bochco died peacefully Sunday morning at 10:20 a.m. “Steven fought cancer with strength, courage, grace and his unsurpassed sense of humor,” Phillip Arnold said in a statement provided to CBS News. “He died peacefully in his sleep with his family close by.” Bochco’s TV credits include a wide array of programs such as “Hill Street Blues,” L.A. Law,” “Doogie Howser, M.D.” and “NYPD Blue.” Many of them were shows related to the law genre. The Associated Press writes that “Hill Street Blues” challenged, even confounded the meager audience that sampled it in 1981. Then after critical acclaim, the series began to connect with viewers, while scoring a history-making 27 Emmy nominations its first year. Bochco has won 10 primetime Emmy awards throughout his career including four Peabody awards. The AP reports that Bochco once remembered a fan telling him that “Hill Street Blues” was the first TV series with a memory. “That’s what I always thought of myself doing in the context of TV: craft a show that over time would have a memory,” he told AP in an interview two years ago. “I sensed that very early in my career. It just took me another 10 or 12 years...

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For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government’s fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former executives of the company. Prosecutors accused them of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray – called Subsys. One-time billionaire Kapoor was once one of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical executives. Thursday’s verdict is a sign of the government’s mounting efforts to hold drugmakers and distributors accountable for the nationwide opioid crisis. Among the pieces of evidence presented during the 10-week trial: a five-minute video promoting the fentanyl spray Subsys, featuring an Insys company salesman rapping about prescribing higher drug doses using a process known as “titration.” Prosecutors say the video was just one of the dubious tactics Insys used to boost profits which also included bribing doctors by paying them for 다이 사이 후기 sham speaking engagements. In 2017, CBS News learned Insys made 18,000 payments to doctors in 2016 totaling more than $2 million. Michael Canty, a former federal prosecutor who has advised states on suing opioid companies, said the prosecution’s case had “very good evidence.” “I think that this will send a message to other prosecutors that, look, these are cases that can be brought. If you have the evidence and you can put it before a jury,...