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Emmy winner Jeremy Piven and "Saturday Night Live" alum Molly Shannon have joined the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG-animated feature comedy "Igor," announced Exodus' president John D. Eraklis. Piven will voice the role of "Dr. Schadenfreude," Igor's nemesis, with Shannon voicing the role of "Eva," a giant, indestructible Monster invented by Igor. They join Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, and Christian Slater.

Piven won an Emmy this year for his shark-type Hollywood superagent role on HBO's breakout comedy hit "Entourage." His other credits include "Keeping Up with the Steins," "Two for the Money," "Old School" and he voiced the role of "Harv," Lightning's manager, in the animated hit "Cars." Shannon's credits include the box office hit "Talladega Nights," "Scary Movie 4" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

"Igor," distributed by The Weinstein Company, is a playfully irreverent comedy which brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. It tells the story of a mad scient...

Ambrose Bierce was regarded as brilliant, cantankerous and opinionated, which he considered his due as the top selling American writer of the late 1800's. His short stories, first published in the San Francisco Examiner and later released in collections such as his "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians," became international best sellers. Some of the most popular Bierce writings were from his experiences as a soldier during the Civil War, and a new feature film presents three of his most famous battle tales.

"Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories" is a 2006 production from Hannover House and Don Maxwell Productions, starring acclaimed actor Campbell Scott in the title role. The film recreates epic battles and stories from the U.S.-Confederate Civil War, including a new adaptation of the Academy Award nominated "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." Other stories include "One Kind of Officer" and "Story of A Conscience," skillfully wrapped within a framework of an historic meeting between ...

GoldenPalace.com made room in their ever-increasing collection of pop-culture oddities by purchasing an item that brings new meaning to the term 'celebrity crap.' The online casino bought Suri Cruise's Bronzed Baby Poop for $10,000. The proceeds of the sale will be going to the Kristin Brooks Hope Center.

The Bronzed Baby Poop is an original sculpture by artist Daniel Edwards who was commissioned to create the work of art by the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery. According to their website, the poop is "purportedly cast from the excretion of [Suri's] first solid meal...the baby poop [is cast] with a bronze finish and mounted on a base that includes a brass plate engraved with baby Suri's name."

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The Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a charity dedicated to preventing suicide by treating various types of depression. Ironically, one of the Hope Center's specialties is treating postpar...

"An estimated 44 million adults and 14 million children in our nation suffer from a mental disorder every year," -- Dr. David Satcher

WHAT:

In a landmark partnership, famed actor, comedian, television producer, author and activist, William H. "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D. will join one of the nation's preeminent psychiatrists and experts on race relations, Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., to pay tribute to former United States Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. for Satcher's groundbreaking reports and continued work in the area of mental health.

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The occasion -- which will include an announcement of national importance -- is billed as "One of the single most important events in the history of the Morehouse School of Medicine."

The Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair will be the first component of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. The Institute will focus on mental health, sexual health, the health of the black family...

IBM announced today that C.O.R.E. Feature Animation has successfully completed its first animated feature film in a studio run exclusively on the IBM BladeCenter platform. Released worldwide in April, "The Wild" took a team of 300 animators from C.O.R.E. Feature Animation three years to create. C.O.R.E. decided to use an IBM blade platform for its rendering farm to help provide the flexibility, scalability and performance it needed to render the film on time and on budget. By completion C.O.R.E. estimates they generated nearly 15 million HD frames for "The Wild" using IBM BladeCenter.

In 2003, C.O.R.E. Feature Animation landed the opportunity to produce animation for Disney's "The Wild." In a matter of weeks the studio needed to ramp up production on the film and be able support a crew of 300 animators. C.O.R.E. also needed to replace its proprietary UNIX-based operating systems running on a mixture of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) and generic white box servers, with...