In brief: Cult actor Jeremy Slate dies | Movies

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In brief: Cult actor Jeremy Slate dies

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Jeremy Slate, co-writer and star of the cult biker film Hell's Angels '69 died yesterday of complications following cancer surgery. He was 80. The versatile actor was a guest star on nearly 100 TV shows from the early 1960s onwards and was most recently seen in the sitcom My Name is Earl. He also starred alongside Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! Slate, often cast as a tough guy, featured in a string of biker films in the late 1960s, including The Born Losers and Hell's Angels '69, which he co-wrote.

Children's classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is to be adapted for the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Fast and the Furious producer Neal Moritz has been hired by Columbia Pictures to write a screenplay based on Judith Viorst's 1972 story about a young boy who is experiencing his worst ever day. No director or cast details are yet available.

Danish film Spraekker, by Aage Rais-Nordentoft, yesterday won top prize at the 21st European short film festival in Brest, western France. The festival, whose jury was headed by French director Claire Devers, featured more than 250 films, with 44 in the official competition. French film Les Deux Vies du Serpent, by Helier Cisterne, won the prize for new talent, while the prize for films less than six minutes long was shared by two movies: Kwiz by Belgian Renaud Callebaut and the Irish film The Fairies of the Blackheath Woods by Ciaran Foy. The public's prize went to Le Mozart des Pickpockets by French director Philippe Pollet-Villard, while Polish actor Alan Andersz received the best actor/actress prize for his performance in Polish film Melodramat by Filip Marczewski.

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