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Reuters: 2012 - a sampling

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It's been an incredible year for documentaries at Sundance. Read about them here.

Meet this year's rising star of Sundance, Filly Brown's Gina Rodriguez here.

A Q&A with West Memphis Three's freed prisoner Damien Echols here.

Peter Jackson and West Memphis Three's Damien Echols talk about their new documentary and the startling new revelations in the case here.

Reuters 2011 - a sampling

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Profile on Dragon Tattoo's Rooney Mara here. 

Catching up with The Help's Octavia Spencer here.

Q&A with Michelle Williams on Marilyn, Matilda and musicals here.

David Fincher on his Girl with the Dragon Tattoo here.

Jason Segel on The Muppetts, pupetts and Kermit's full frontal here.

Michelle Williams on portraying Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn and Me here

My Reuters Holiday Movie Preview is here! Your guide to the movies this Thanskgiving/Christmas season with quotes from Kristin Stewart, Jason Segel, David Fincher and Michelle Williams!

Catching up with Mickey Rourke here.

Harold and Kumar are back in a 3D Christmas movie. Here is my interview with Kal Penn and a separate one with John Cho is here. 

Salma Hayek is one cool chick! Here. 

My conversation with Johnny Depp for The Rum Diary here.

My interview with Spock, er, Sylar, I mean, Zachary Quinto here.

Keith Urban talks to me about his new men's cologne and his new baby girl here.

T-Pain on the branding of The T-Pain Effect here.

Anna Faris on orthodontal head-gear and What's Your Number sex scenes here. 

Author Jon Katz on pet grief in his book Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die here.

Taylor Lautner Q&A about Abduction, Breaking Dawn and his abs here.

Taylor Lautner profile here.

Emmy fashion piece here.

The Biggest Loser fitness trainer Bob Harper speaks here.

Tom Hardy, aka that guy from Inception who's now the lead villain in Batman here.

Steven Soderbergh on Contagion here.

The Reuters Fall Movie Preview is here!

The next Hollywood Dynasty is here: Vera and Taissa Farmiga speak here.

Who is the new Conan? Jason Momoa. Read about him here.

Jessica Alba - new movie, new baby here.

Q&A with Captain America's Chris Evans where he discusses not wanting to accept the role, then going in to therapy after agreeing to do it here.

Read all about the incredible shrinking technlogy used in Captain America here.

Tom Hanks takes on recession in Larry Crowne here.

Cars 2 star Eddie Izzard on his political aspirations here.

Real-life Horse Whisperer, Buck Brannaman, on his abusive childhood, his way with horses and Buck, the documentary that chornicles it all. Here.

JJ Abrams on Super 8, Steven Spielberg and Jorge Garcia here.

JJ Abrams on Super 8 here.

Horror king John Carpenter on his 10 year hiatus from movies here.

School shooting at the crux of Beautiful Boy + reader comments here.

Bringing the Judy Moody children's book series to the big screen here.

Newcomer Jessica Chastain on her breakout role in Tree Of Life which precedes the nine (!!!) other films she's got coming out on the horizon here.

Kate Hudson on babies, co-parenting & her new rom-com Something Borrowed here.

Reuters summer 2011 movie preview here.

Amy Poehler on voicing kids movies, Parks & Rec and her blurry life here.

Katherine Schwarzenegger steps out from Arnold's shadow here.

Channing Tatum on The Eagle and starting own production company here.

James Cameron on producing Sanctum, prepping Avatar sequels here.

Natalie Portman on being pregnant, doing comedy No Strings Attached here.

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Reuters (2010): Russell Brand takes sobriety to a new level

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By Zorianna Kit

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Years ago in London drama school during his heyday of drug use -- an image he once cultivated --  Russell Brand took the title role in a production of "Macbeth."

"I took a big load of amphetamines, drank half a bottle of whiskey and staggered out as Macbeth," the actor and comedian told Reuters. "Before I went on, I tried to get myself in the right mood, so I was smashing stuff up in the back room, cut my hands and tried to make myself puke."

The result?  "It was bloody stupid because I was sick everywhere," said Brand. (Click here to read the entire story)

Some other 2010 Reuters pieces - a sampling:

The Social Network's Armie Hammer aka the Winklevoss twins here.

Gwyneth Paltrow interview here.

Sofia Coppola Q&A here.

Jeff Bridges Q&A here.

Nicole Kidman Q&A here.

Olivia Wilde profile here.

Gwyneth Paltrow & "Glee" here.

Kirsten Dunst Q&A here.

Sally Hawkins interview here.

Chris Pine profile here.

Holiday Movie preview here.

Zach Galifianakis & Robert Downey Jr.'s crazy interview for Due Date here.

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington on his apperance in Saw 3D here.

Actresses take center stage this Oscar season here.

Q&A with The Social Network's Jessie Eisenberg here.

East Indians taking over Hollywood here.

Is celeb's obsession with Twitter starting to wane?

Vanessa Paradis profile here.

Two competing Facebook movies: Social Network vs. Catfish here.

Q&A with filmmaker Eli Roth here.

William Shatner Q&A here.

Zac Efron profile here.

Mily Cyrus and Hannah Montana here.

iCarly's Miranda Cosgrove profile here.

The strange world of Gary Coleman here.

Jordan's Queen Noor here.

Vanessa Redgrave Q&A here.

Larry Birkhead profile here.

Larry Birkhead to auction off Anna Nicole Smith memorabilia here.

The perils of "chexting" here.

Bindi Irwin, daughter of late Croc Hunter Steve Irwin, here.

The business of Swag Suites here.

Sarah Palin at the Oscar gifting suites here.

Kim Cattrall Q&A here.

Too old for Hollywood? Try directing!

Q&A with Pixar's John Lasseter here.

Q&A with Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner here.

Reuters (2009)

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Zorianna writes profiles and Q&A's with actors and filmmakers, as well as other film-related pieces for Thomson Retuers. Reuters is the world's largest multimedia news agency, providing news to 93 countries around the world.

Below are some samples of her 2009 work:

Fashion designer-turned filmmaker Tom Ford Q&A here

Bryce Dallas Howard Q&A here.

Amy Poehler and Christina Applegate talk to me about being The Chipettes here.

Q&A with Sarah Ferguson, Duches of York here.

Profile of The Lovely Bones' Saoirse Ronan here.

Precious filmmaker Lee Daniels here.

Holiday/Oscar films preview here.

Inglourious Basterds' Diane Kruger profile here.

Profile on Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker here.

Profile on Ashley Tisdale here.

Ashley Tisdale Q&A here.

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke's Q&A here.

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