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West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
CANNES, France (AP) — One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot. But the film's lead actor, Adam Bakri, says the location or political motif isn't that important. "The fact is that...
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Updated: 15 min ago
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 'TIRED' ANG LEE PULLS OUT OF FX SERIES: Ang Lee's Oscar-winning effort for the movie "Life of Pi" has so exhausted him he's decided to pull out of plans to direct the FX series pilot...
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Debbie Reynolds: We all knew Liberace was gay
Updated: 3 hr ago
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother Frances. The Oscar-,...
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Talk of lies, pride as Trump case goes to jury
Updated: 11 hr ago
CHICAGO (AP) — The lawyer for an 87-year-old woman who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a skyscraper condo deal told jurors in Chicago on Wednesday that he was personally repulsed because he felt the "Apprentice" star conned his client and lied about it on the witness stand. Plaintiff...
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Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy showbiz affair
Updated: 13 hr ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself. Liberace, forever hailed as Mr. Showmanship, was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and offstage extravagance were legendary and who wowed audiences in Las...
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Capsule reviews of new movie releases
Updated: 15 hr ago
"Before Midnight" — The final scene of 2004's "Before Sunset" was so romantic it drove moviegoers crazy — happily crazy — especially because it was so tantalizingly ambiguous. Jesse and Celine, that appealing (and extremely talkative) couple played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who had...
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Cannes: Scott Thomas' glorious dip into darkness
Updated: 16 hr ago
CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother. "That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a...
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Redford swept away in shipwreck saga 'All Is Lost'
Updated: 17 hr ago
CANNES, France (AP) — Robert Redford makes actions speak louder than words in shipwreck drama "All Is Lost." He doesn't have much choice. A man-versus-nature tale about a lone sailor adrift on the Indian Ocean, J.C. Chandor's movie has no dialogue, just a few lines of voiceover at the start...
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Review: 'Fast & Furious 6' is more of everything
Updated: 17 hr ago
Ever wonder what it would feel like to suddenly wake up in another universe? You could find out, perhaps, by joining the next space mission to another galaxy, or, slightly easier, you could go to your local multiplex and watch "Fast & Furious 6" without having seen the first five movies....
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Cannes: James Franco builds a bookish filmography
Updated: 17 hr ago
CANNES, France (AP) — James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf — and a very respectable one, at that. The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") and Hart Crane ("The Broken Tower"). He recently finished directing an adaptation of Cormac...
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