‘Firm deal’ for noted winery

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Jon Bonné, Chronicle Wine Editor

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

(07-22) 14:06 PDT CALISTOGA — Chateau Montelena, one of Napa Valley’s best-known wineries, is being purchased by the owner of one of Bordeaux’s top properties 32 years after its Chardonnay trumped France’s best in a famous tasting and helped put California wine on the world stage.

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Unofficial rumors of a sale have circulated through Wine Country for several months, and the potential deal conveniently comes just days before the Napa Valley premiere of the movie "Bottle Shock," based on the 1973 Montelena Chardonnay outscoring top white Burgundies in the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting. Both the Barretts and their winemaker at the time, Miljenko "Mike" Grgich, leveraged the 1976 results to become some of the most familiar names in Napa Valley.

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Your Name Here too

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Downtown Film Festival: Summer Movie Fare, Hipster Style


If you were wondering what a family-filled movie event in the park would look like if you were an East Side hipster, here’s your answer. The Downtown Film Festival presents Your Name Here, a rock musical and mockumentary for the whole family, as part of their "Summer Screening Mixers." In this version, there will be both non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks available for the attendees who come early to the party for the "mixer" portion of the evening. Can’t imagine this would be approved in Mayberry, USA, but then again, their movie screenings aren’t held in the courtyard of the Barker Block live-work lofts in Downtown LA.

Your Name Here is a coming of age story (what else?) about a teenage band and their parents who are trying to manage them: the film was partially based on director Tamar Halpern‘s own family. Some familiar alt-geek tropes are explored: There’s a punk rock cool chick bass player—shades of Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind of Wonderful, anyone? But there’s also a few new ones, like a "narcissistic egg player" (????) and a British kid no one can understand. The original music is written and performed by the kids in the flick.

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YouTube – Surveillance by Jennifer Lynch out in Europe

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Bill takes a break at the film fleadh – National News, Frontpage – Independent.ie

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Today we celebrate: Obama in Butte, MT, July 4th 2008

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choice cast…

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HACkwork: Cast For Fire and Rain #2

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‘Bottle Shock’ Poster & Trailer | Movie Blog | UGO.com

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Home by the Sea: more confusing white blond actors via kwout

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Los Angeles Film Festival June 2008

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"In this age of pharmacology, there are a lot of doctors who say children should be on medicine," said Pullman, who attended the screening, along with Fanning and Daniel Barnz, the film’s writer and director. "An incredible number of families are facing this question, and without a lot of preparation. They weren’t raised in an era in which, if you have a child who’s a little jumpy, you got a pill for it."

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Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs "Celebrating 100 Extraordinary Women" contest

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Contest Winners From Across the Country Honored With Chance to Appear in National Magazine Spread and Trip to Los Angeles for Once-in-A-Lifetime Experience

Posted :  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:05:45 GMT
Author : Kraft Foods
Category : Press Release

The Star Treatment

In October, America will get to "meet" these extraordinary women when a two-page spread featuring them will appear across national Time Inc. magazines, including PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, In Style, Real Simple, Cooking Light and Health.

The photo shoot for the spread took place during an extraordinary evening celebration of the selected women at the popular X BAR in Los Angeles. Prior to that, the women enjoyed an afternoon at one of the nation’s most "extraordinary" events — the Los Angeles Film Festival. There, they attended a private VIP screening and Q&A of the new independent women’s interest film "Phoebe in Wonderland," with stars Elle Fanning (Dakota Fanning’s younger sister) in her feature film debut, Bill Pullman and writer-director Daniel Barnz. Scheduled for theatrical release this fall which coincides with the timing of the Time Inc. magazine spreads, the film also stars Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott.

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* this is not Elle Fanning’s feature film debut *

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