newsmakers

April 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

newsmakers

NBC’s ‘Harmony’ to feature prince

NEW YORK

Britain’s Prince Charles will be featured on NBC later this year in a film about his environmental work. The network said Tuesday it will show “Harmony,” a movie about the prince and his view that people have lost the understanding of how to live in harmony with the natural world. It features business and environmental leaders working for a better balance.

The film also includes clips from an interview Prince Charles did about the environment in 1988 with future Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore. The special will air in November, part of NBC Universal’s fourth annual week of programming promoting green lifestyles.

Book to highlight musings by Monroe

NEW YORK

Musings about life, literature and other rarely seen writings by Marilyn Monroe will be published this fall. Farrar, Straus & Giroux announced Tuesday that “Fragments” would come out in October. Editor Courtney Hodell says the book will include poems, reflections on Arthur Miller and other men in her life, and references to works by Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and numerous other authors. Monroe died in 1962.

Productions to pay for permits in NY

NEW YORK

For the first time, television and film productions that come from all over the world to shoot in the city will have to pay for the city-hall permits that have always been free, a major change in policy that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration attributes to budget woes.

Senior Bloomberg administration officials were to tell representatives from Hollywood studios, advertising and labor unions on Tuesday about the proposed $300 fee for films, commercials, music videos and television series.

To be sure, $300 is a barely noticeable budget line in most multimillion-dollar television and screen projects, and most major cities — including Los Angeles, New York’s major film competitor — already charge permit fees.

But the change is an about-face in policy for a city that has long prided itself on uniquely providing free permits and other perks to lure projects to shoot in the iconic Big Apple.

Logger from show is confirmed dead

BANGOR, Maine

A Maine woodsman and skidder operator who had a supporting role on Discovery Channel’s “American Loggers” has died.

The Maine medical examiner’s office has confirmed the death Friday night of David McLaughlin of Milo. He was 45 and had suffered from a severe diabetic condition.

Rudy Pelletier, co-owner of Gerald Pelletier Inc. in Maine, said the amiable, hardworking logger was sidelined from time to time because of his diabetes. McLaughlin’s condition was diagnosed when he was 14, but he maintained a sense of humor that sometimes came through on the TV series.

Amy Winehouse bruises ribs in fall

LONDON

Amy Winehouse is being treated for bruised ribs at a London clinic after falling at her London home. The soul diva’s spokesman says Winehouse also suffered a cut above her eye after she tripped and fell Saturday.

Spokesman Chris Goodman said Tuesday that the 26-year-old singer is recovering at a private clinic and is expected to be fine.

Winehouse shot to stardom with the Grammy-winning album “Back to Black” in 2006, but her music has been overshadowed by drug use, legal run-ins and a tempestuous marriage that ended in divorce last year.