casting agents say other hollywood films are going the same direction. perfect has become imperfect. the natural look is in. beauty, bombshell, drag queen, model or real. >> let's see what real gives me. >> reporter: this casting director shows us how producers can search for actors specifically by look. >> she's beautiful. >> reporter: her personal pet peeve, face work, especially lips. >> and then you'll see people who have work done. i do character casting a lot. i mean, everybody's funny and fun to me. but the one i'm looking for, a meg ryan-type, somebody who's girl next door. i don't want to see their face be destroyed. it makes me sad. >> reporter: what do you tell young actresses? should they go for plastic surgery or not? is must be a tough decision for a young woman to decide which way to go. >> i'm very anti-surgery. i mean, it's -- it seems alien to me. your face doesn't move correctly. and there's no movement in here. i really discourage it. whether it be in commercials or for television. >> reporter: big screen casting director danny ross s

hollywood was his escape. >> i wanted to show off. i wanted the adulation and the friendship and people patting me and thanking me. >> he felt like hollywood never took him seriously. he starred alongside a man that had no talent -- no doubts about his talent, roger more. >> people started reflecting on the amount of work that he did in drama and comedy. he was wonderful in it "some like it hot." >> indeed win him an oscar nomination. behind all of the film roles was a private life blighted by drink and drugs. he did recover and regaling not people with tales of his wild youth. >> he was talking about maryland. at the time we saw him, he was 83. he was talking about his many escapades in hollywood. the various women that he went out with. >> there were many affairs and marriages from lee to his sixth wife that was more than 40 years younger than him. he was a genuine star. "some like it hot", a hollywood classic. >> looking back on a career. president obama's middle east envoy george mitchell has held critical talks with mahmoud abbas

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>> reporter: and may jolt hollywood out of the dog days doldrums. the audience this summer was the smallest in more than a decade. >> i think harry potter is going to be the big one. this turned into a money machine for warner brothers. >> reporter: kenneth soran is film critic for the los angeles times. >> there's only one more book so they split it into two films because they're just trying to squeeze as much money as humanly possible out of the franchise. >> reporter: squeezing money out of pockets is what hollywood does best. remember wall street's gordon gecko? >> someone reminded me, i once said, greed is good. >> reporter: the role that one michael douglas the 1987 best actor oscar. well, he's back. in the wall street sequel money never sleeps. >> what about money, jake? do you like her. >> reporter: this timeen snaring. >> money never sleeps. maybe you'll pay close attention. you wake up in the morning she might be gone forever. >> reporter: you want action? >> show me where the bullets go. >> reporter: you've got it. >> why are you doing th

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hollywood in hot pursuit of a whole new audience. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." >>> investigators get the first close-up look at critical piece of machinery that was supposed to have prevented the massive bp oil spill. the 300-ton blowout preventer that should have sealed off the flow of oil after the deep water horizon rig exploded is tonight an important piece of evidence. after being carefully lifted from the seafloor last even under the careful eyes of the fbi. the full explanation of the explosion that killed 11 workers is undetermined, but now investigators are a step closer to learning how it rapidly unfolded into the largest environmental disaster. anne thompson was on board the ship that retrieved the blowout preventer and joins us from new orleans with more. anne. >> reporter: good evening, lesser. the blow joet prevent ee eer is the custody of the fbi tonight making its way to shore and to a nasa facility in louisiana where it will be inspected for evidence as investigators try to answer the question of why it failed. it emerged

the hollywood legend and tony curtis died of heart attack in america at the age of 85. in a career spanning 60 years he appeared in well over 100 films, including "some like it hot" and "spartacus." his life off screen it was as colorful as his life on screen. >> it is for this world that many will remember tony curtis. >> why is everyone staring? >> with those legs, are you crazy? >> giving up, at performance alongside jack lemmon and marilyn monroe. >> spoofing cary grant, his idol. >> born in the bronx, into a family of impoverished town during immigrants, he said he felt trapped by new york city. his good looks proved to be his passport. he moved from being eye candy to and admired character actor. >> i am hosting my favorite new perfume -- success. >> this performance of one him an academy nomination but not the oscar -- won him an academy nomination but not the oscar. he lived the hollywood dream -- a film star wife, the list friends -- the "a" list friends. feeling rejected, he left for england where his talent was appreciate it. >> i think he will be remembered

bill maher received 2,427th star on the hollywood walk of fame. i was there here are some of the sights and ceremony. watch. you see him as this kind of colds, effacing, serious funny special guy. but he's a warm-hearted if you want. bill maher getting it is well overdue. this is a man who is as close as we get these days to thomas jefferson. in his vision, his devotion for rational truth and his love for black chicks. >> this is a special day for bill maher, but really this day should be cherished for anyone anywhere who values independent, proof and free thought. >> i want to thank some very special people without whom i would not be here today. george bush, sarah palin and the pope. when i came to hollywood in 1983, i had one dream, to sleep with jodie foster. that didn't work out, but this is nice, too. thank you very much for coming. i really appreciate it. >> larry: i know how i felt when i got one. it's touching. >> it's forever. >> larry: it's forever. >> as something as mainstream and corny as that would include someone as out of the main

he never won an oscar but was a hollywood icon. he was married five times. nick looks back at his life. >> it was one of the funniest films ever made. jack lemmon and tony curtis, giving his comic skill by in drag. and out of it, as it. his acting hero -- carry grant. -- cary grant. he was the son of poor hon. emigrants who grew up as a new york street kid who did not speak english until he was four. >> from the first day i wanted to show off, one of the adulation and fringe of people. maybe i did not get enough of it -- and friendship of people. >> his craving for attention took him to hollywood. he married gently, and they appear the perfect hollywood couple. -- janet leigh. the star together and in houdini into the marriage collapsed. by then, tony curtis had started as aneal his depths actor. his darkest role of all came as a real life mass murderer in a good the boston strangler." when he did not get the oscar nomination that he thought he deserved, he decamped to london to work with roger more in the television series. when he returned to hollywood, he

. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live." tonig tonight, dax shepard, "90210," jessica stroup. and music from shontelle. with cleto and the cletones. ♪ jimmy kimmel live >> dicky: and now for the time being, here's jimmy kimmel! [ applause ] >> jimmy: tonight, i knew i could do it. i really did. it's friday night which is good because sometimes it isn't and, you know, i was driving to work today -- i drive myself into work. thank you, cleto. and i was thinking -- i was thinking i'm me and everything i see, the way i experience the world comes from that perspective from me and everyone else is them. every other person has -- every person has a totally different point of view. each one of us in our mind is like the center of not just our world, but the world. from your perspective you're the center of the world. the whole world is like filtered through you and for me i'm the center of the world. and i was -- and it got me thinking it would be nice if i could be the center of your world too. you know? i'd like you to consider

the 35,000 square foot slots parlor in cecil county has 1,500 slots, two restaurants, all set in a hollywood movie backdrop. the casino got its license over the weekend after a successful trial run saturday. more than 1,000 people were invited to a closed-door charity event. it paves the way for maryland's first casino to open since voters approved slots nearly two years ago. four other locations still have big hurdles before opening. the casino at arundel mills is going back to voters in november. operators in perryville say they are happy to be the first to open and provide hundreds of local jobs in a state of the art facility. >> we have real slot machines with a handle, then we have just some that have incredible lcd digital screens with sound. >> reporter: again, the hollywood casino in perryville will officially open its doors at 8:00 this morning. grand opening ceremonies will be on thursday. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >>> an elderly black man beaten while fishing in a south baltimore park will be in court today, describing the attack. 77-year-old james privette will speak at

casting agents say other hollywood films are going the same direction. perfect has become imperfect. the natural look is in. beauty, bombshell, drag queen, model, real? >> let's see what real gives me. >> reporter: casting director francine selkirk shows us how to search specifically by look. her personal pet peeve, face work, especially lips. >> and then you'll see people who have work done. >> what do you tell young actresses? should they go for plastic surgery or not? it must be a tough decision for a young woman to decide which way to go. >> i'm very anti-surgery. i mean, it seems alien to me. your face doesn't move correctly. and there's no movement in here. i really discourage it. whether it be in commercials or for television. >> reporter: big-screen casting director danny ross says plastic surgery has invaded hollywood to the point that it's getting hard to find actors to play certain ages. >> with the older actresses in particular, there's a lot of pressure to look young. not to look old. must be harder to find older women to cast. >> there's th

that's next. >>> hollywood of course is mainly known for two things. blockbuster movies and people with a lot of plastic surgery. >> now moviemakers are turning their backs on the botox-filled silicone actors they helped inspire. as neal karlinsky reports, they're actually looking for natural-looking stars. >> go to studio three, please -- >> reporter: at this hollywood casting session, actors like ashley davis are looking for a break. >> you just go in and be yourself, i guess. your control is so little, all you can do is go in the room and do your best. >> reporter: in the press, hollywood's best may have included some surgical help. but more than ever casting agents are now looking for something new in hollywood. actors who actually look like normal people. instead of the silicone-filled, botox-injected, perfectly artificial beauties who fill some of the industry's gossip magazines. >> i would have to say 99% of directors don't want it unless it's specific. >> reporter: in recent years, hollywood magazines have made a sport out of spotting or at lea

the hollywood casino is off of i-95. and the lottery commissioner signed the license saturday after a successful test run. [no audio] >>> it sounds like we don't have the story for you. we got a sneak peek inside. they have a lot of "sex and the city" themed stuff. it opens the doors monday and the official grand opening is on thursday there. we'll look for the tape and it has video poker becames as well. the hollywood casino in perryville will close at 2:00 a.m. and it starts this morning at 2:00 hours from now. >>> the fight over the slots in arundel mills malls continues this weekend. the would be developer met with several people and stressed out the slots could create several jobs. and voters in anne arundel county will have the say in november. >> and the police are looking for those behind a pair of shootings. police responded to those behind the shootings. a man was shot in the chest and he's in critical condition and a few hours later, a man was shot with a shotgun. >>> the parents of a slain girl on the eastern

and hollywood health & society consulted on that. we had a psychiatrist consult. the show actually sent us, they sent us the script ahead of time. in fact, they sent us the rough edits. so we sat with a psychiatrist in our office for a second round to review every episode, which is very rare for a network to do and they did an excellent job. we then collaborated with samhsa to develop a public service announcement. we got permission and samhsa helped us develop a script. and this psa featured this gorgeous young actress who was the woman with bipolar disorder in the story referring young people to a special landing page, a web site. and we tracked the traffic. there were huge spikes the day of the show and the day after this psa aired. and kids actually could enter discussion threads. and there were some really heart-breaking stories in there; kids who said, "i've been telling my parents for 2 years there's something wrong with me; now i know i have bipolar disorder, they don't believe me." well, in this case it was one of samhsa's partner groups, they had trained

today, he received a star on hollywood's walk of fame, which we'll get to shortly. we'll talk politics with bill right now. i know you have a personal interest in delaware, which could be the big story of the night because the republican establishment looks like he's going to get beat. they won't support the person who is going to beat him, tea party person, who you brought us. >> i really dmplt christine o'donnell was one of most frequent gets on "politically incorrect" people who don't remember it because they were too young or watching johnny carson. no, i guess gi jay was there. we created anne colter, laura ingraham. i could go on. >> how did you find her? >> we used to become -- i drank a lot in those days. we liked to book female conservatives, you can't not like her. she's such a nice person. we have a great clip that used to be in our highlight reel of ben affleck saying please, christine, shut up. because she would just go on. she was known back there as the girl from salt, saviors alliance for lifting the truth. and i guess that's still the shtick that sh

impossibility. >> when we come back, bill on the hollywood walk of fame. don't go away. [ male announcer ] even before science was science, fire was fire. and the first language, the language of chemistry, was universal and eloquent. and the unique ability of chemistry to change everything has never changed. it is still the hope of human history to come. it is still the bond in partial between the elements. hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and human. >> larry: bill maher received the 2,417th star on the hollywood walk of fame earlier today. i was there for some of the unveiling and here are some of the sights and sounds of the ceremony. watch. you see him as this kind of cold, effacing, serious, funny special guy. but he's also a warm-hearted great friend. bill maher getting his star is long overdue. well deserved publicity whoring. this is a man who is as close as we get these days to thomas jefferson in his vision, his devotion to rational truth and his love for black chicks. this is a special day for bill maher, but really this day should be cherished by anyone

hollywood casino got the ok after a trial run winds well saturday night. the casino has 1500 slot machines. you can experience something similar to table games. >> i am excited and all the staff is as well. all of our cast members are smiling from ear to ear. >> officials hope to help the economy in maryland. this casino has created 350 jobs. tony nylander has to commute from north east to a casino in rhode island. >> i have a 2-year-old and we have been for about eight years. it is great aunt to hear the little guy yelled daddy. >> the casino is opening three days earlier thanks to construction. officials wanted to expedite this process so maryland could compete with casinos in bordering states. other locations hoped to fall in hollywood's footsteps. the casino will open its doors at 8:00 a.m. this morning. >> a patient has been charged with the murder of a fellow patient. investigators say a nurse found susan sachs with a string around her neck. saladin taylor is charged in that strangulation. teller was criminally responsible for a killer in baltimore c

that is when the hollywood casino in perryville will officially open its doors. the 35,000 square foot slots parlor in cecil county has 1,500 slot machines, two restaurants, all set in a hollywood movie backdrop. the casino got its license over the weekend after a successful trial run on saturday. that paves the way for maryland's first casino to open since voters approved slots nearly two years ago. the four other locations still have big hurdles before opening. the casino at arundel mills is going back to the voters in november. operators at perryville say they are happy to be the first to open and to provide hundreds of local jobs in a state of the art facility. >> some traditional slot machines have a handle and then we have some that have incredible lcd digital screens with bose sound. >> reporter: again, the hollywood casino in perryville will officially open its doors in about an hour, 8:00 this morning. grand opening ceremonies are set for thursday. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >> thank you. >>> a white supremacist who pleaded guilty to beating a b

i'm joined by tony potts of "access hollywood." lindsay lohan confirming she failed her test on twitter page and she's ready to go before the judge. we heard her talk about it. we heard her mom talk about it. she wants to get on with her career, she's older, she's wiser. do we know what happened here? >> here's the deal. i always say if you don't want to get hit by a train, where don't you stand? on the tracks. this is she comes back to hollywood and you go back into the same environment, you know? if you go into freezing weather, you're going to get cold. this is the same thing. her dad sent us something, michael lohan, saying he's going to sack the people who are responsible. i know it's football season, he's excited because the jets won yesterday, but you're not going to sack anybody. it's a responsibility of lindsay. the tweet, though, i do have to say, she did tweet on friday that she did violate the terms of probation and failed a drug test. i believe that came from her attorney. it's one of the first attorney tweets i believ

hollywood health & society works with script writers and producers to get accurate health portrayals into television, film, and new media. so one thing we're doing, going back to the earlier conversation, we're using a transmedia approach, old and new media, so that when we do get an accurate tv health storyline on addiction, we then work with a group like samhsa to develop the script for psa and a dramatic plot point spin and storyline refer viewers to credible sources of information through web links or call-in hotline numbers. and a lot of times, we refer viewers to web sites where they can actually generate their own content and tell their own stories and have a conversation with other people in similar situations. and often these messages go viral, and then it really takes off around the world. so that's one approach. the hollywood health & society has a partnership with the writers guild of america, west and we work with writers to connect them to experts. so we could take a recovering addict or alcoholic in to meet with the writers. we might take a physician, a clinician, or a

the humidity at 90% and the winds hollywooding steady. the seven day forecast. we will look at the tropics coming up. >> its been a long wait here in the state. we are just hours from pulling the lever on a slot machine. the casino plans to open tomorrow. days ahead of schedule. cheryl the gambler connor is here with more. >> reporter: that's right. i'm ready to go. 1500 machines are in place and ready to take our tok ens. hollywood casino invited a thousand people yesterday and the event went well enough to hand over that license. empty seats but not for long. on sunday the lottery director signed a license allowing hollywood casino to open. it's the first to open in the state after voters approved it nearly two years ago. >> we have 1500 of the newest machines on the market from seven of the top manufacturers in the country. >> reporter: slot machines but no traditional table games. still the marketing director said it's closeness to baltimore is an advantage over the competition in delaware. the cecil county location is about 040 miles from the stay. >> we ha

why the political movement is now taking on santa monica boulevard and hollywood names lending star power to the event. a return to the pulpit bringing thunderous applause and a fiery response to a shock being sex scandal. pastor eddie long for the first time dispensing himself before thousands of followers. (cheers) >> this, at the new birth missionary baptist church this morning outside atlanta. long, now vowing to battle lawsuits from four men in the past week, accusing him of using his leadership role to push them into sexual relationships. >> this is they think i'm going to fight. and i want you to know one other thing, i feel like david against goliath. but i've got five rocks and i haven't thrown one yet. >> julie: the accusers say they were teenagers when it happened and police so far are sitting this one out. elizabeth outside the church in georgia, tonight. hi, elizabeth. >> hey, julie, the pastor spoke carefully this morning when he addressed thousands of members of his congregation and they've been waiting to hear from him allegations came out six days ago on tuesday. what he

after the flood, the aid of appeal in pakistan is boosted by help from hollywood. >> is not just at tent washed away. it is a collapse of their entire life. >> welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- man of iron. as -- does it vladimir putin hope for another stint as president? and how the parsis community is trying to secure the survival of their community and religion. heller to you. hundreds of thousands of protesters have been on the streets of france, demonstrating their anger at government austerity measures. a 24-hour strike has disrupted flights, trains, and closed schools. president sarkozy wants to raise the retirement age from 60 to 6 2, say the changes are unavoidable. we have this from paris. >> choked with protest. a vast crowds have come out against plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to six detail. there was also a major disruption to transport as workers went on strike. this nurse complained, we worked nights, weekends, public holidays. we do not get a chance

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the hollywood star was conservatively dressed for her visit to a place of suffering. for decades, this is a campus home to those displaced by conflict, and now by the floods. angelina jolie met families who lost homes, and some who lost children. women shared their stories of lives changed in an instant. afterwards, she said she had been moved by what she saw and heard from those robbed of so much. >> there are people displaced by the floods, and they have left their homes. the flood water was as high as the ceiling. and i was surprised by that. it is not just the tent that is washed away in somebody's mind. it is their entire life. many of them lost their children during the floods. it is terrible. >> the united nations refugee agency hoped her presence would keep the spotlight on the victims and remind the world of the need to get. but those we met were not so sure. these men knew it someone had come from america, but they did not know how do. -- who. >> people come and go. they speak with officials, but there is no change for us. we are still living in misery. >> t

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kristen welker joins us from outside lohan's home near hollywood. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. lindsay han arrived here at her west hollywood apartment at about 12:30 this morning thanks to her attorney, a superior court judge, and a lot of money. lindsay lohan released from jail just hours after a judge ordered her back inside without bail. the troubled actress first reported to court friday morning, dssed to the nines for another probation violation, this time she tested positive for drugs just weeks after she was released from rehab. before the hearing started, lohan was all smiles. but all that changed when ten minutes after the hearing started, judge fox ordered her to be handcuffed and taken into custody for nearly a month without bail. lohan showed little emotion, but dad michael didn't hold anything back. >> jail is not good for anyone. i have been there. it doesn'trehabilitate. >> reporter: no sooner had loh arrived at jail than her lawyer started working on getting her out. hours later a judge overturned the decision. according

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. >>> the doors at the hollywood casino in perryville opened three days ahead of schedule. tony marsala was there as the first slots players showed up to pull the levers. >> reporter: at 8:00 monday morning the new hollywood casino in perryville opened its doors. >> it's making perryville grow a little bit. bring the people into town. lower our taxes a little. >> reporter: the casino hopes to improve the local economy by bringing in tax revenue. it has 350 full time jobs plus money from tourists. >> we have grandkids and our sons live in the area. we come up often. it's nice. >> reporter: it hopes to keep slots money in the state. >> i believe something like 40% of the delaware business historically has come from the state of maryland. we're going to keep that in the state now. >> it's exciting. very exciting. don't have to drive to delaware anymore. >> reporter: after a late decision sunday night to open monday the casino still plans to hold its grand opening thursday but for many who have been waiting today was a good chance to see if the casino was worth a trip back. >>

before long, he found himself in hollywood, mind and key board ablaze. >> i am the president. >> reporter: is it true that the first draft of "the american president" was 385 pages? >> yes. i delivered it in a shopping bag. i -- and -- >> reporter: for people that don't know, one page is a minute, right, on screen? >> generally speaking, yeah. we're talking about a seven-hour movie with a dinner break. and i just -- i -- i loved writing about a president. >> reporter: the leftovers of that film became a pilot for "the west wing," the acclaimed glimpse behind the curtain of a president and his staff. for democrats, it was policy porn. >> drug control appropriations. >> $17.6 billion. >> reporter: full of hope and change long before this guy came along. >> yes we can. >> reporter: if you were writing the obama administration, as a tele-play -- >> it's like the hotel housekeeping crew that's got to come in and clean up the suite after led zeppelin has been there. i would do what he was so great at in the campaign, which was making our heart race. >> reporter: if you had written a character o

the hollywood casino in perryville will open at 8:00 this morning. abc2 news linda so is in the studio ready to gamble. linda? >> reporter: yes, get ready. 1,500 slot machines, lots of food and drinks, in a hollywood theme. the casino is opening a little earlier than expected. it was originally supposed to open this thursday. instead, that is when the grand opening will be, with today being their soft opening. the casino got its license over the weekend after a successful trial run saturday. more than a thousand people were invited to a close-door charity event. it paves the way for the casino to open since voters approved slots nearly two years ago. the casino at arundel mills is going back to the voters in november. operators at perryville say they are happy to be the first to open and boost the local economy. >> we have 350 employees, 80% of which are from harford and cecil counties. so, to be the first, i think it's just an exciting thing for everybody. >> reporter: again, the hollywood casino in perryville will officially open its doors in about

casting agents say other hollywood films are going the same direction. perfect has become imperfect. the natural look is in. beauty, bombshell, drag queen, model, real? >> let's see what real gives me. >> reporter: casting director francine selkirk shows us how to search for actors specifically by look. >> i think she's beautiful. >> reporter: her personal pet peeve, face work, especially lips. >> and then you'll see people who have work done. >> what do you tell young actresses? should they go for plastic surgery or not? it must be a tough decision for a young woman to decide which way to go. >> i'm very anti-surgery. i mean, it seems alien to me. your face doesn't move correctly. and there's no movement in here. i really discourage it. whether it be in commercials or for television. >> reporter: big-screen casting director danny ross says plastic surgery has invaded hollywood to the point that it's getting hard to find actors to play certain ages. with the older actresses in particular, there's a lot of pressure to look young. not to look old. must be

kristen welker joins us from outside lohan's home near hollywood. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. lindsay lohan arrived here at her west hollywood apartment at about 12:30 this morning thanks to her attorney, a superior court judge, and a lot of money. lindsay lohan released from jail just hours after a judge ordered her back inside without bail. the troubled actress first reported to court friday morning, dressed to the nines for another probation violation, this time she tested positive for drugs just weeks after she was released from rehab. before the hearing started, lohan was all smiles. but all that changed when ten minutes after the hearing started, judge fox ordered her to be handcuffed and taken into custody for nearly a month without bail. lohan showed little emotion, but dad michael didn't hold anything back. >> jail is not good for anyone. i have been there. it doesn't rehabilitate. >> reporter: no sooner had lohan arrived at jail than her lawyer started working on getting her out. hours later a judge overturned the decision. ac

>> i am thrilled hollywood got this right. in my adult lifetime i watched american students fall out of the top five, the top ten, and now out of the top 20 on a global basis. teachers union protect incompetent teachers and make it impossible for parents to choose the school they want to send the kids to. if this is backed by hollywood and rich technology people like bill gates is a thrilling moment, makes you confident things will turn. >> are teachers union helping or hurting the american public education system? >> probably not helping, but they're also not the whole of the problem. rich has a math problem here. how many bad teachers are there out there really? i can't recall having one i'd call really bad. this guy made "an inconvenient truth" before making this. it will spin both sides now. don't know whether to trust him for one or the another. it's not just about teachers. it's about parents and student transparency and testing for things that matter. i was in a school in oakland that did well in a terrible area. it was

. >> hollywood casino got the official green light after a trial run went well saturday night. it will be maryland's first slots casino to open since casinos were banned in the 1960's. the casino is opening three days earlier than scheduled because construction finished earlier than expected. it has 1500 slot machines but no table games. 350 new jobs have been created. 80% of the new employees are from cecil and harford counties. this is a new era in maryland. >> we are excited. all of our cast members were smiling from ear to ear yesterday. >> the casino will open its doors at 8:00 a.m. this morning. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news.

hollywood, chesapeake beach, shady side, prince frederick. watch out. you can see the line of storms from west of annapolis. actually around bowie south to right along route 4 to saint leonard. anywhere on this line. we have several areas that steam to be showing signs of a rotation right now. you can see one west of north beach to benedict and saint leonard also. the possibility in this sort of a situation as these storms move north at 25 miles an hour that you can get a little rotation to develop. upper-level winds are pretty strong, and we have heavy, heavy showers. so that can transport the wind gusts to the surface or get a little spin right hoar. we have got widespread heavy rain. a little bit lighter as you head to west virginia and the shenandoah valley. but this is impressive stuff moving from south to almost north, west maybe slightly west of due north at this hour and there's a lot of rain going on here. you can see all of it here moving off to the north. let's go to southern maryland here because i want to focus, one more time, on what is go

sherwood pictures has some in hollywood trying fog figure out the secret formula. >> hollywood is a vehicle that makes films for entertainment rather than impact. church communities are making films that are entertaining and impactful. >> reporter: the last film cost $500,000 to make. it brought in 33 million. even for hollywood, those numbers are heaven sent. in al ban that, georgia, lauren greene, fox news. >> julie: a show in the sky not to be missed. jupiter getting closest to earth in nearly 50 years the solar system's largest planet will be 368 million miles from us monday night. sounds far, we are told it shouldn't be too hard to see. scientists are saying it is already three times brighter than the brightest star in the sky. next week it will be at its brightest. a sight we won't see again until the year 2022. >> lindsay land is in trouble again. find out what the act -- lindsay lohan is in trouble again. find out what she did this time. >> you heard about pot brown anies. how about pot ice cream? we'll tell you where they are serving it up, next. there's an . create your own busine

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hollywood star tony curtis passes away at the age of 85. we'll look back at his career and his roles in some of hollywood's greatest films early this thursday morning, september hollywood's greatest films early this thursday morning, september 30th, 20 o 10. captioning funded by cbs >>> a small taste of what's to come here in new york city, where we and all of the east coast are bracing for o severe weather. good morning, everyone i'm maggie rodriguez. >> i'm harry smith. good morning, all. >> i have a question for you. do you have a hard time saying you're sorry? >> no, not at all. >> you know why? because that would require you admitting you did something wrong, which is apparently very difficult to men according to a new study and poll geez less than women do. >> i find that so curious because men screw up so much, you woonk we would -- >> that's a great points. we'll talk about thamplsts first the latest onotbig storm moving into our area, the remains of tropical storm nicole. it is expected to cause flooding from miami to maine and it