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		Maradona: The Movie Italian director Marco Risi is preparing to direct a movie about the life of legendary footballer Diego Maradona. The film will be called The Hand Of God after the Argentinian's notorious "goal" against England in the 1986 World Cup. Risi told Italian newspaper La Republica that he'll be addressing Maradona's health and drug troubles as well as his footballing, er, glories. "I think of him as a genius," he said. "Soccer exists before and after Maradona. It's like Van Gogh in painting or Charlie Parker in music." Risi is still searching for an actor to play Maradona. Hand in your applications now.

		Kaye Returns With Paranoia After a long absence from the movie scene, British director Tony Kaye is back. Kaye more or less disappeared from Hollywood after a bitter and very public battle with New Line over the final cut of his neo-Nazi flick American History X. According to Variety, his new film Paranoia follows a high flying advertising exec who comes to work on a Friday to find it's actually Sunday and everyone thinks that she is a murderer. Kaye is no stranger to paranoia. At the height of his battle over American History X, he attempted to have his name taken off the film and replaced with Humpty Dumpty. That sort of thing gets you talked about.

		Barbara Bel Geddes Dies The actress Barbara Bel Geddes has died of lung cancer. She was 82. Although best known as the maternal rock of TV soap Dallas, Bel Geddes was also a movie star with an impressive resume, who worked with Hitchcock on Vertigo and was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for the 1948 film I Remember Mama. After she was dropped from RKO by Howard Hughes, Geddes developed a successful stage career, winning acclaim for her portrayal of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Her final movie role was in 1971 crime drama The Todd Killings. "She was just a really nice woman and a wonderful actress," her Dallas co-star Larry Hagman told AP. "She was kind of the glue that held the whole thing together."

		Has Wes Craven Gone Soft? Horror maestro Wes Craven, the man behind the Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream movies, is turning his back on blood and gore to make a romantic comedy. In an interview with Freeze Dried Movies, director Craven says he's planning a film called Susan's Last Letter, "about a man whose wife dies and a year after her death he gets a letter from her." Letters from beyond the grave? Still sounds pretty horrific. But wait, there's more. She sends the letter "because she knows him so well that she knows that he probably wouldn't be seeing other women, and so sets him up."Aww. Coming soon: Richard Curtis directs The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Actually.

		Robinson Builds Genbot New Line Cinema was clearly pleased with the performance of Herbie: Fully Loaded. They've signed up director Angela Robinson to make another action-comedy called Genbot, for the traditonally vague "seven figure deal". According to Variety, Robinson's pitch concerns a young girl caught up in a secret Government operation that transforms her into a cyborg. Sounds like Mean Girls meets Terminator 2, and hey, who wouldn't want to see that?