Clone Wars Charity Premiere August 10 in L.A.

Would you like to see CW before everyone else? Sure, we all do! There are two catches:

1. You have to make your way to Los Angeles for the August 10 4 p.m. premiere at the Egyptian Theater deep in the heart o' Hollywood.

2. You have to cough up whatever the ticket price is (it's not posted yet) to benefit American Cinemateque, which preserves and shows to the public classic films. AC members get first crack at the tix until July 23, then the rest of humanity gets its chance.

The story seems to imply no new SW heavyhitters will be involved, but take that however you want:

http://www.townhall.com/news/entertainment/2008/07/09/`clone_wars_orbits_hollywood_for_aug_10_premiere?page=1

Update: Tickets will be $30. Not a bad price! www.fandango.com will sell them to the general public beginning on the 23rd.

And it looks like the voice cast list is final since the same release is on starwars.com:

http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/news20080709.html

Force Unleashed Trailer

After years of less than fuzzy press from Entertainment Weakly, I'm very surprised EW.com got to premiere the latest Force Unleashed trailer, but here it is:

http://www.ew.com/ew/video/exclusives?lineupId=1155151521&videoId=1655717469

Theater of the weird

Carrie Fisher had a set of famous parents, including her mother Debbie Reynolds, a tireless showbiz veteran and one of the biggest stars of the 1950s.

Well, thanks to the magic of YouTube, it has been discovered that Natalie Portman's mother had a brief acting career, or at least in one short educational film about the dangers of sloppy driving. Shot in b&w during what looks like the mid-1960s, there are no credits but I say it's a pretty good chance that it really was Mrs. Hershlag. The young Jackie O lookalike has Nat's nose and the same smile. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the tragic tale of "The Last Prom":

One of these days I'll look for that Pringle's ad with Hayden's sister.

Update: Some on the fan site natalieportman.com are claiming this is actually Natalie's aunt, not her mom. Whoever it is, she's a dead ringer for Nat.