If you see Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga or Alan Alda in Memphis a few weeks from now, thank writer-director Rod Lurie, whose latest film, "Resurrecting the Champ," with Samuel L. Jackson, is now in theaters. (But probably not for long, judging by its box-office performance, as Lurie is the first to admit.)

Lurie is bringing those actors to Memphis in mid-October to shoot a new movie, "Nothing But the Truth," inspired in part by the Valerie Plame/Judith Miller "CIA leak" case. Read more in today's edition of The Commercial Appeal. The story is here.