Equal Rights in 2009. AFER turned to David Geffen and Steve Bing for early funding and assembled the anti-Prop. 8 legal team of conservative attorney Theodore Olson and David Boies, a Democrat, who faced off against each other in 2000's Bush v. Gore case.

Black, who penned the Academy Award-winning feature film Milk and the new critically-acclaimed film J. Edgar, based “8” on the actual words of the trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom

"Tobacco use causes cancer. The connection is very direct." Armstrong, who said he'll campaign for the measure in California whenever his triathlon training schedule permits, is the latest celebrity to use the state ballot to push a pet cause. In 1998,...

Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Please sign me up for The Weekly Standard weekly newsletter. Could one of them say a good word about our troops? Thursday night's debate may have served to highlight two of Mitt's...

Rob Reiner, who will also appear in 8, will direct the staged reading at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre that will star Oscar nominee George Clooney. "The Descendants" star will play David Boies, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Perry v....

Matthew Morrison and Matt Bomer will play plaintiffs Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, a gay couple together over ten years. Jane Lynch will play prominent opponent of marriage equality Maggie Gallagher, co-founder and former chairman of the National...

(Black based the show on court documents and his interviews with the plaintiffs from the trial.) Joining Colfer, Bacon, and Reilly for the California reading (which will be directed by founding AFER board member Rob Reiner) are George Clooney , Jamie...

The final casting has been announced for the high-wattage, Rob Reiner-directed, one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8 on Mar. 3 in Los Angeles, and it’s impressive to say the least. Kevin Bacon, Glee’s Chris Colfer, and John C. Reilly have...

Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer, and John C. Reilly have joined a stacked cast that already includes George Clooney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, and Martin Sheen in a Rob Reiner-directed performance of Dustin Lance Black’s play 8 on March 3rd in LA. Funds...

It was a representative sampling across my state. I must share with you it was one of the prouder days I’ve seen as governor. Have you heard from President Obama or administration officials on the bill’s passage? I have not. I did receive a wonderful...

Organisers have now confirmed Clooney will be joined by Bacon and Colfer, as well as Chicago star John C. Reilly, for the one-off performance at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on 3 March (12). The performance, directed by Stand by Me helmer...

The 1987 film, written by William Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner, is smart, sweet, funny, exciting and, of course, romantic. Cary Elwes and Robin Wright sparkle as the couple at the center of the storybook escapade. Let's all go watch it again. ...

“The Magic of Belle Isle,” originally titled “Summer at Dog Dave's” – the Rob Reiner film starring Morgan Freeman that was shot in Greenwood Lake – might soon be coming to a theater near you. Magnolia Pictures, which has distribution rights to the film,...

Recently nominated for 10 Academy Awards, The Artist is giving audiences an old-fashioned taste of old-fashioned romance. Whenever I have a chance to revisit Lerner & Loewe's 1958 movie musical, Gigi, I never fail to be swept away by its many charms. ...

For more information and tickets, visit www.familyequality.org. The evening, which begins at 7 PM, honors children's book author Todd Parr; Chad Griffin, co-founder and board president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights; and former congressman...

Elwes’ dashing hero Westley is continually upstaged by memorable performances from the rest of the cast, including Wallace Shawn as the shrimpy, egomaniacal Vizzini, the late André The Giant as the innocent hulk Fezzik, and Mandy Patinkin as the...

Chartier's Voltage Pictures has locked a clutch of international sales for Rob Reiner's "The Magic of Belle Isle." Pic, which was picked up this week by Magnolia in the U.S. , has sold to Germany (ARD), Spain (DeaPlaneta), Canada (VVS Films), Hong Kong...

Supporters of gay marriage hailed the ruling. American Foundation for Equal Rights President Chad Griffin, who formed the group along with director Rob Reiner to wage the court fight against Proposition 8, called the panel's decision "a historic victory."

REUTERS/Heino Kalis There’s little doubt Spinal Tap co-creator Rob Reiner had Deep Purple top of mind when his alter-ego Marty DiBergi proclaimed the mock metalheads “one of England’s loudest bands” in the classic 1984 (not-so-) fake rockumentary This...