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Friday, June 26, 1998 4:36:00 PM
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Abraham Zapruder's film of the JFK assassination has been scrutinized ever since he captured the event
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly 35 years after it was made, the home film of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is coming to video stores. A digitally enhanced version of the 26-second film, shot by dressmaker Abraham Zapruder in Dallas on November 22, 1963, will be included in a 45-minute presentation featuring historical narratives, interviews and a look at the filmmaking process. The video will cost $19.98 for a VHS cassette and $24.98 for a digital video disk, and will be available beginning in August.
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Nicholson
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MIAMI (CNN) -- Cuban-American Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Florida, slammed actor Jack Nicholson Thursday for comments the actor made during a visit to Communist-run Cuba. In an expensive Havana restaurant on Wednesday, the three-time Oscar winner said the island was "very beautiful, very lovely, a paradise." Diaz-Balart called the comments insensitive, "shameful and disgraceful," adding that the actor was "a guest of the tyrant" (President Fidel Castro) who was not being shown the prisons or families of political prisoners.
HOLLYWOOD (CNN) -- "Saturday Night Live" cast member Molly Shannon is bringing her nerdy Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher to the big screen in a Paramount film called "Superstar," produced by SNL producer Lorne Michaels. Shannon originated the Gallagher character, who has ambitions of stardom, on the NBC comedy show. She is also slated to star with Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell in Paramount's "A Night at the Roxbury," also based on a SNL sketch and set for release this fall.
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"60 Minutes"
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The CBS news program "60 Minutes" is more likely to become 120 minutes later this year, now that executive producer Don Hewitt has embraced the idea. Initially opposed to the expansion -- along with the show's top correspondents -- Hewitt is now working to develop a tentative format for the second show, according to a "60 Minutes" spokesman. Hewitt and the correspondents, particularly Mike Wallace, feared the expansion would dilute the impact of the 30-year Sunday night mainstay. But with other networks' newsmagazines rising the ratings, CBS executives were keen on the idea. CBS spokesmen say expanding the show will ultimately depend on agreement on a format, and staff that everyone feels comfortable with.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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