• Actor George Clooney was taken to the hospital in Sardinia and released after a wreck involving his motor scooter and a car on a state road on the Italian island Tuesday, hospital officials said. "He is recovering at his home and will be fine," Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield confirmed in an email. The John Paul II hospital in Olbia confirmed Clooney was treated there and released after Tuesday's accident, in which Clooney's scooter and a blue Mercedes sedan collided along a curve in the road. Daily newspaper La Nuova Sardegna said Clooney, 57, was heading to a film set at the time of the crash. An oil stain and police paint remained on the road Tuesday; photographs taken by someone passing the scene showed the car's front right bumper damaged and Clooney's bike on its side. Clooney reportedly is in Sardinia filming a television miniseries adapted from Joseph Heller's World War II novel Catch-22. Clooney has a home on Lake Como and was married in Venice in 2014 to the British human-rights attorney Amal Clooney.
• Indiana Jones won't be swinging back into movie theaters until at least 2021. The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday announced that the planned fifth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise will be released in July 2021 instead of July 2020. Steven Spielberg is set to direct the latest Indiana Jones film, with Harrison Ford also reprising his role. Ford turns 79 years old in July 2021.The film was originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2019. Script issues are reportedly behind the delay. Last month, Solo: A Star Wars Story co-screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan was brought on to help write the film.
• Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has pulled out of a Shakespeare stage production in Australia as he sues a Sydney newspaper for defamation. Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Brett Sheehy said Tuesday that he had received a statement from the 67-year-old actor on Monday withdrawing from the role of Malvolio in a seven-week season of Twelfth Night which begins on Nov. 12. Rush cited his current circumstances and medical advice for having to withdraw. "I do so with the greatest regret. I know that I would not be able to provide the necessary creative spirit and the professional stamina required," Rush said in the statement. Rush is suing The Daily Telegraph newspaper for defamation over articles published in December that accused him of inappropriate behavior toward actress Eryn Jean Norvill during the Sydney Theatre Company's production of King Lear in 2015. Rush has denied the allegation, saying that the articles portrayed him as a pervert and sexual predator.
A Section on 07/11/2018