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United Talent Agency has signed Cindy McCain in all areas, the agency announced Thursday.

McCain’s daughter, The View panelist Meghan McCain is another prominent client.

Cindy McCain, widow of the late Sen. John McCain, is an advocate of early childhood education and activist in the fight against human trafficking, UTA said in today’s announcement. McCain, meanwhile, said she is “thrilled to work with UTA to leverage my charitable passions” and carry on her husband’s legacy, hoping to reach new audiences.

McCain was in the news last month after President Trump renewed his attacks on her husband, complaining he gave the late Arizona Gop senator the kind of funeral he had wanted, but never got thanks for it. That was factually inaccurate in that it is not up to Potus if a deceased senator lies in state in the Capitol, and not up to Potus what funerals are held at National Cathedral,...

On Wednesday, former Attorney General under President George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, appeared on Fox News Channel’s America Live with Megyn Kelly to weigh in on the Supreme Court verdict on health care reform. Kelly asked Gonzales for his insight into the thinking that Chief Justice John Roberts may have applied when he joined the Supreme Court’s liberal members in finding the individual mandate constitutional as a tax.

Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress today that he and FBI Director Robert Mueller have both been questioned by investigators over the leaks concerning secret drone strikes and cyberattacks.

The leaks appeared in a New York Times article two weeks ago, and have since drawn harsh criticized from congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, who have characterized the leaks as some of the worst in national security history.

Gop figures have criticized Holder's appointment of two Justice Department attorneys to lead an investigation into the leaks, and called on Holder to appoint an independent counsel. Republicans love independent counsels, except when they're appointed by Democrats, in which case they're blatantly political.

Holder also announced today that two of the investigators—does the DoJ operate on a buddy system or something?—involved have been recused, because their divisions may have had access to the information involved in the leaks.

Fantastic Fest Logo 2010Fantastic Fest is moving into its sixth year and the 2010 event will take place in Austin, Texas September 23rd. This year's showings will include over fourty short films, each of which has been listed below. The horror short highlights include the creature feature "Culebra," the exorcist fueled "Deus Irae," the comical "The Legend of Beaver Dam," the dark "La Petit Mort" and undead characterizations in "Only Son." More details on the horror shorts are available below, along with the entire 2010 Fantastic Fest short film lineup.

"5 Minute Dating"

Canada

Director: Peter Hatch.

"A dating service where anyone can find their soul mate" (Fantastic).

"12 Years"

Germany

Director: Daniel Nocke.

"We're not the only species that needs to endure the wrenching pain of relationships gone sour" (Fantastic).

"The Astronomer's Sun"

Director: David Bunting.

"Lovely animated story about a boy and his bear and the secrets of the universe."

"Atomic Hubbub"

UK

Director: Stephen Irwin.

Hot diggity! Fantastic Fest is screening a whole lot of shorts and they're a whole lot of good. We've featured a number of these on Twitch in the past so get searching to turn up a fistful of happiness. Here's the full announcement!

Fantastic Fest 2010 Announces Full Short Films Slate

Over 40 Genre-Bending Shorts From Across The Globe

Set To Premiere At This Year's Festival

Austin, TX---Friday, September 3, 2010--- Fantastic Fest announces the full short films lineup, including over 40 genre-bending selections from around the world.  The festival has amassed the ultimate array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying and hilarious short films. The best short films can pack in more emotion, laughs adrenaline, creativity and flat-out insanity than a million big-budget blockbusters. Or they can show you something so ambitiously horrendous that you beg for mercy. 

Fantastic Fest 2010 Short Film Lineup

5 Minute Dating

Canada, Director: Peter Hatch 

A dating service...

Fantastic Fest has announced its full 2010 short films lineup, including over 40 genre-bending selections from around the world. The festival has amassed the ultimate array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying and hilarious short films. The best short films can pack in more emotion, laughs adrenaline, creativity and flat-out insanity than a million big-budget blockbusters. Or they can show you something so ambitiously horrendous that you beg for mercy.

Fantastic Fest 2010 Short Film Lineup

5 Minute Dating

Canada, Director: Peter Hatch

A dating service where anyone can find their soul mate.

12 Years

Germany, Director: Daniel Nocke

We’re not the only species that needs to endure the wrenching pain of relationships gone sour.

The Astronomer’s Sun

UK, Director: David Bunting

Lovely animated story about a boy and his bear and the secrets of the universe

Atomic Hubbub

UK, Director: Stephen Irwin

Here’s the newest way to enjoy mankind’s impending self-apocalypse.

It’s that time of the year, folks, when Santa Cohen comes down from the North Pole and offers his annual reckoning for the legal world’s naughty and nice. As usual, there were lots of little boys and girls who acted up and acted out, as well as the typical lot of those who stood up and stood out. Here you go: Naughty: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Justice Sharon “Killer” Keller, the Texas appeals court judge who blew off a death-penalty appeal so she could go home to meet a repairman. The defendant was executed because his appeal was not heard. Santa Cohen is pleased that the State Commission on Judicial Conduct is investigating this travesty upon justice but warns those Commissioners that they’ll make this list next year if they let Keller skate. Nice: All of the elves who work at the Innocence Project, which through the use of D.

He’s back. After a public career marked by cronyism and incompetence, Alberto Gonzales, the disgraced former Bush administration lackey, is trying the touchy, feely, pensive thing. In Esquire magazine, the man who negligently reviewed clemency memos in capital cases in Texas for then Governor George W. Bush offered this grotesque quote: “This may sound egotistical, but to me it is important that when I leave this earth, I would have made a difference—that people would know Al Gonzales lived, he touched lives, he made a difference, he left a mark.” He left a mark all right. As Attorney General, he left a Justice Department shattered by the U.S. Attorney scandal and the Bush administration’s insistence that partisan hacks infiltrate the nonpartisan offices of career professionals. As White House Counsel, he left the legacy of the torture memos by failing to rein in (or by actively encouraging...

Things to know about at this week: the first Clash of the Titans teaser, Steve Guttenberg still hanging onto his 80's glory, toy movies are still wanted, and the fantastic piece of news that is the death of the Oldboy remake. What's that? That's right. Read along.

The Good

• A very good poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was posted on the Mad Hatter's official Facebook page. Two more are coming, presumably on the Red Queen and White Queen pages.

• A selection of props from Duncan Jones' Moon are up for auction on eBay, including Gerty himself! It's the actual full-size thing, measuring 83” x 33” x 27.5" and even signed by the director himself. As of writing it's still bidding at £1,000, so totally affordable if you're a collector.

• After being impressed by the new trailer for The Wolfman that was released a couple of weeks back, now I'm even more impressed by the posters.

Yet another Texas governor is facing important questions about the state of capital punishment in Texas. A little more than one decade ago, it was George W. Bush. Today it is his successor, Gov. Rick Perry. In both instances, the chief executive of the Lone Star State proudly and defiantly failed or refused to provide fundamental fairness, never mind constitutional due process, to death row inmates. In both instances, the men set back the cause of the death penalty in America even as they ensured Texas’ continuing place as the Wild West of capital punishment. In Bush’s case, it was clemency memos. His legal counsel in Austin, one Alberto Gonzales, handed up to him a series of sickeningly incomplete and inaccurate clemency memos. References to mitigating evidence were omitted. Conflicts of interest and the incompetence of counsel were ignored. The memos would have been rejected as flawed by any...

If I were teaching a course on capital punishment in America, I would begin and end in Texas, which has earned over the years its reputation for being just about the worst place in America to be put on trial for capital murder. I’d start with the famous Atlantic magazine article from 2003 called the “Texas Clemency Memos.” Writer Alan Berlow did a masterful job there of explaining how the future president of the United States, George W. Bush, and the future attorney general of the United States, Alberto Gonzales, mismanaged Texas’s clemency system a full decade ago. To call the piece an “eye-opener” is to do it disservice. Next, I’d share with my students a more recent look at law and justice in Texas—a worthy piece titled “Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man”—written by David Grann for The New Yorker. Grann...

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Thursday continued to pressure Asian countries to get tough on copyright theft as it created a senior post inside the Justice Department to coordinate enforcement efforts in the region, which has been a piracy hotbed. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appointed federal prosecutor Christopher Sonderby of San Jose, Calif., to serve as the coordinator for the Asian region. "Protecting intellectual property rights in the United States and throughout the world is one of the highest priorities of the Department of Justice," Gonzales said. "My appointment of an intellectual property law enforcement coordinator for Asia is an important step in coordinating enforcement efforts in a critical region of the world."...

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Thursday continued to pressure Asian countries to get tough on copyright theft as it created a senior post inside the Justice Department to coordinate enforcement efforts in the region, which has been a piracy hotbed. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appointed federal prosecutor Christopher Sonderby of San Jose, Calif., to serve as the coordinator for the Asian region. "Protecting intellectual property rights in the United States and throughout the world is one of the highest priorities of the Department of Justice," Gonzales said. "My appointment of an intellectual property law enforcement coordinator for Asia is an important step in coordinating enforcement efforts in a critical region of the world."...

WASHINGTON -- Widening its war on its get-tough policy on copyright piracy Thursday as it asked Congress to approve new laws increasing penalties for copyright infringement and making it easier for authorities to prosecute intellectual property theft. on copyright pirates, the Bush administration asked Congress on Thursday to enact new laws for protecting intellectual property and make it easier for authorities to put violators behind bars. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference on intellectual property crime that the laws were needed because piracy is getting easier, the money it generates finds its way to other illegal activities -- including terrorism -- and the nation's economy depends on the copyright-enabled industries. "I think legislation is absolutely necessary as we are at a critical point as the technology is changing so quickly," Gonzales said. "Because of the changes in technology, it's so much easier (to pirate) now. What that's doing is encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual property theft, and that involvement is used, quite frankly, to fund terrorist activities. It is a great concern to the Department of Justice and the administration."...

WASHINGTON -- Widening its war on copyright pirates, the Bush administration asked Congress on Thursday to enact new laws for protecting intellectual property and make it easier for authorities to put violators behind bars. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference on intellectual property crime that the laws were needed because piracy is getting easier, the money it generates finds its way to other illegal activities -- including terrorism -- and the nation's economy depends on the copyright-enabled industries. "I think legislation is absolutely necessary as we are at a critical point as the technology is changing so quickly," Gonzales said. "Because of the changes in technology, it's so much easier (to pirate) now. What that's doing is encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual property theft, and that involvement is used, quite frankly, to fund terrorist activities. It is a great concern to the Department of Justice and the administration."...

WASHINGTON -- Widening its war on copyright pirates, the Bush administration asked Congress on Thursday to enact new laws for protecting intellectual property and make it easier for authorities to put violators behind bars. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference on intellectual property crime that the laws were needed because piracy is getting easier, the money it generates finds its way to other illegal activities -- including terrorism -- and the nation's economy depends on the copyright-enabled industries. "I think legislation is absolutely necessary as we are at a critical point as the technology is changing so quickly," Gonzales said. "Because of the changes in technology, it's so much easier (to pirate) now. What that's doing is encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual property theft, and that involvement is used, quite frankly, to fund terrorist activities. It is a great concern to the Department of Justice and the administration."...