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Fred Roos, the casting director turned producer who jump-started the career of Jack Nicholson and collaborated often with Francis Ford Coppola, sharing a best picture Oscar with the filmmaker for The Godfather Part II, has died. He was 89.

Roos died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, a publicist announced.

It’s part of Hollywood lore that before Harrison Ford became a famous actor, he was laboring as a carpenter to make ends meet. What some might not know is that it was at Roos’ house where Ford was woodworking when the casting director befriended him, eventually pushing him for roles in George Lucas’ American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977) and Coppola’s The Conversation (1974).

And it was Roos who convinced Lucas — who had been leaning toward Amy Irving — that Carrie Fisher should portray Princess Leia in Star Wars. (Roos did not have an official role on that film.)

Roos, however,...

A Florida man suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old girl in 2016 was sentenced Monday to 40 years in federal prison for producing pornographic photos of her before she went missing, People confirms.

Jorge Guerrero Torres, 29, was sentenced on Monday after being convicted in May for having sexually-explicit images of Diana Alvarez, who went missing in 2016 and with whom authorities allege Torres had a sexual relationship, a Florida District Court official tells People.

At his sentencing hearing on Monday, Diana’s mother pleaded with Torres to reveal where her daughter was, according to the News-Press.

“Please tell me where my daughter...

Charlie Sheen has reportedly spent around $$1m on hookers in the past year. According to The Mirror, adult entertainment production manager Rita Hernandez would arrange for porn stars to visit the Two and a Half Men star's home every weekend, costing £5,000 per girl. She said: "I've known Charlie for years and I arranged girls for him as a favour. He was obsessed with young, new porn stars and they had to be aged 18 to 24, no older. Charlie really upped the ante in the last 12 months. He seemed to order many more girls because he had split with his wife. "In the end he was so jacked up on cocaine, pills and alcohol that he couldn't (more)...