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Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films to Produce ‘Netherland’ With Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions

BrianTT — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:18:01 -0600

CHICAGO – Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today that Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films is teaming up with Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions to produce a feature film based off the Joseph O’Neill novel “Netherland” for Focus Features. Focus will have worldwide rights to the film.

Netherland
Photo credit: Vintage

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (“Dangerous Liaisons,” “Atonement”) is currently writing the adaptation that will be developed with Mendes as the potential director. Focus CEO James Schamus said, “We’re so glad to have Christopher join our creative partnership with Harpo and Neal Street, rendering an extraordinary gathering of talents even more so. This project’s emotional power has resonated with us all.”

Harpo Films, Inc. produces films, and with an exclusive deal with HBO, scripted television. Recent features have received the highest industry honors for quality. “The Great Debaters” received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Drama.

O’Neill received the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his third novel, “Netherland”. Hampton was an Academy Award nominee last year for his screenplay adaptation of “Atonement”.

Set in early 21st-century New York City, “Netherland” is a story about a lonely expatriate that finds himself drawn to cricket. He then forms an unlikely friendship and discovers a rich world of immigrant culture that was previously unknown to him.

Harpo Productions, Inc. produces the award winning, number-one-rated, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” creates and develops original television shows for primetime, syndication and cable television, and operates Oprah.com.

By ANGIE RENTMEESTER
Staff Writer
HollywoodChicago.com

Exclusive Portraits: Legendary Adult Film Star, Feminist, Best-Selling Author Nina Hartley in Chicago

HollywoodChicago.com — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:46:42 -0700

CHICAGO – Legendary adult film star, feminist and best-selling author Nina Hartley was in Chicago for a three-night, sold-out sex education workshop series at The Pleasure Chest from Dec. 3, 2008 to Dec. 5, 2008. Hartley paid a visit to the HollywoodChicago.com celebrity photographer’s studio to shoot some of her new no-nudity publicity.

Editor’s note: As HollywoodChicago.com is not an adult entertainment publication
and does not show nudity, these portraits are tasteful and fully clothed.

In addition to appearing in approximately 650 adults films over the past 25 years, Nina Hartley was in “Boogie Nights” and has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. She is a registered nurse, a spokeswoman for the adult film industry and the author of the best-selling book “Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex”. Our exclusive Chicago portraits of Nina Hartley are below.

Legendary adult film star, feminist and best-selling author Nina Hartley was in Chicago
for a three-night, sold-out sex education workshop series at The Pleasure Chest
from Dec. 3, 2008 to Dec. 5, 2008. Hartley paid a visit to the HollywoodChicago.com
celebrity photographer’s studio to shoot some of her new publicity.
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com