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NEW YORK, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With Heart's Fanatic, a new studio album, and Kicking and Dreaming, an insiders' memoir, arriving this fall, 2012 is shaping up as a banner year for the iconic American band who--beginning with hits like "Crazy on You," "Magic Man," and "Barracuda" in the mid-1970s running through 2010's Red Velvet Car-- have created an enduring catalog of bona fide stadium rock classics and power ballads while establishing a lasting template for women in...

By Carol Cling All sorts of people like downtown Las Vegas for all sorts of reasons. Alexander Nevsky - one of the producers, and one of the stars, of the now-filming thriller "Magic Man" - likes it for the "danger." A former bodybuilder (no wonder he's been dubbed "the Arnold Schwarzenegger of Russia"), Nevsky plays a detective tracking a serial killer. His character "suspects everyone," Nevsky says - including the title character, played by Billy Zane. Commenting on "Magic Man's"...

By Carol Cling The independent feature "Magic Man" focuses on a famed illusionist. But the real trick was bringing the movie to Las Vegas in the first place. Despite its Southern Nevada setting, "Magic Man's" producers planned to shoot in Southern California instead, according to unit production manager Paul Remo of Media Underground, "Magic Man's" Las Vegas-based production company. Because the psychological thriller required "so many Vegas shots," Remo "convinced them to do it here," he...