Press Release: Linda Hamilton

For Immediate Release: April 30th, 2002

Linda Hamilton to co-star with Stephan Paternot in Independent Film

World-Class Talent Attached To Picture

New York, NY, April 30, 2002--Stephan Paternot (co-founder theglobe.com, author of A Very Public Offering, and now filmmaker & actor) is pleased to announce that Linda Hamilton (Terminator 1 & 2, Dante's Peak) will be co-starring as Valerie, a sultry French bakery proprietress, in the upcoming independent short film, Wholey Moses. Joining the team is Cinematographer David Phillips (The Basketball Diaries staring Leonardo DiCaprio & Mark Wahlberg, and the Sundance hit Lift). Wholey Moses, a story about donut addiction colliding with the search for love, is written & directed by filmmaker Todd Heyman, and is set to begin shooting in late May.

"Having a great team like this is a real tribute not only to the quality of our screenplay, but to the independent film world as a whole. It is simply fantastic and inspiring that such talent would be willing to come on board despite such a miniscule budget" says Stephan Paternot, who will be playing Stan Moses, the young, tormented rising star donut painter. Paternot and Heyman united in the goal to make a festival winning short film, have already garnered significant interest from studios to follow up with a feature-length version of the story.

Linda Hamilton's first big break came in 1984 as Sarah Connor in James Cameron's The Terminator. From 1987 to 1989 she earned Emmy, Golden Globe, and People's Choice Award nominations and received a Saturn and a Romy Award as Catherine Chandler in TV's Beauty and the Beast.

In March 1990 Linda reprised her role as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2- Judgment Day where she went from a 40 pound pregnancy gain to all muscle and 14 percent body fat. For this she received MTV Movie Awards for 'best female performance'; as well as 'most desirable female'; and another Saturn Award as well inspiring women's fitness programs, country wide.

In 1995. Linda received a Cable Ace Award and a Golden Globe nomination for A Mother's Prayer and the film, Dante's Peak(1997), earned her a Blockbuster Award.

At the end of 2000 Linda headed a theater production of "Laura"; -- her first venture on the L.A. stage in more than a decade and in 2001, she optioned a script for an independent film she expects to produce as well as star in.

Stephan Paternot, in his second starring role, has a slightly more roundabout story about breaking into showbiz. At the tender age of 24, Paternot was already an overnight hero of his generation, starring on Wall Street as a real-life founder and CEO of one of the world's most visible Internet companies. With a supporting cast of investment bankers, experienced advisors and a brilliant partner, he took his company, theglobe.com, to a record-setting IPO and a market value of a billion dollars. In a single day, his personal worth zoomed to almost $100 million, but eventually the bottom dropped out. In the sequel, Paternot is still going strong, forging his second career as an author. Leaving both his company and his paper millions behind, he picked himself up, dusted himself off and chronicled his wild ride in "A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning". The book is a tale of following your dream, taking risks, exceeding your wildest expectations... and then starting all over. While AVPO is a coming of age story for the Internet generation, like a good movie, the story has inspired people of all backgrounds.

It may be unusual that Paternot is an ex-CEO pursuing his dream of being an actor but there's no question, he's taking a sturdy path - the last couple years, he's knuckled down and taken intense acting lessons with film and television actor Neal Lerner. Film producer Brad Fuller is his manager. UTA, one of Hollywood's most influential talent agencies, is representing him on several fronts, most notably to turn his book into a feature film. Paternot recently produced and starred in "Shutter", a finalist at four festivals, including the Avignon International Film Festival of 2001.

Contact: donuts@wholeymoses.com