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Cannes gets happy ending with river film "Mud"
CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Mud", a touching coming-of-age tale set on the Mississippi River and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, brought the Cannes film festival competition to a close on Saturday, earning warm applause at a press screening.
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Cannes' Middle East films show Arab Spring unfurl
CANNES, France (Reuters) - The "Arab Spring" is the focus of two movies at Cannes this year as film makers present tentative steps towards democracy on the big screen, one year after political upheaval in Libya and Egypt.
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Folk artist Doc Watson's responsive after surgery: agent
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remained in critical condition on Friday but had regained some strength after undergoing colon surgery at a North Carolina hospital, according to his management team.
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Making France's "Intouchables" bankable in the U.S.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Last year around this time of France's Cannes film festival, movie producer Harvey Weinstein pondered how to turn a silent black-and-white film, "The Artist," into Oscar gold. His answer was to charm the socks off audiences with a simple tale of old Hollywood romance.
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Keira Knightley engaged to British rocker boyfriend
(Reuters) - "Pirates of the Caribbean" actress Keira Knightley is engaged to marry her musician boyfriend James Righton, her publicist said on Friday.
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Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" draws some protests
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" with its ghostly tale of terror near the infamous, abandoned nuclear plant hits theaters on Friday after drawing protests from some who view it as sensationalizing a disaster that had tragic human consequences.
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"Cosmopolis" brings star Pattinson to Cannes
CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is a ruthless billionaire on a journey to self-destruction in Canadian director David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis", a searing attack on greed and capitalism launching at the Cannes film festival.
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Best movie mutt is saluted in Cannes
PARIS (Reuters) - Frivolity and fur erupted on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival on Friday, as a fluffy white dog named Smurf was bestowed the prestigious "Palm Dog" award for a performance deemed "magnifique" by the event's organizer.
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