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Seen and heard at Cannes: Justin Timberlake sings a new tune
CANNES, France – Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: A DIFFERENT TUNE FOR TIMBERLAKE In the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Justin Timberlake sings music set to a very different beat than “Suit and Tie.” Timberlake plays a bearded pop folkie in the film, which was to premiere Sunday
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Coen brothers’ folk revival ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ serenades Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France – The Coen brothers’ resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician. “Inside Llewyn Davis” was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was to premiere Sunday night. Joel and Ethan Coen said their primary interest
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Darkly comic Dutch Cannes Film Festival entry ‘Borgman’ explores the devil lurking within
CANNES, France – There’s something nasty lurking in the woods — and inside the characters’ heads — in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry “Borgman.” In Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam’s supernaturally-tinged psychological drama, a mysterious interloper emerges from a forest and knocks on the door of a wealthy family’s modernist mansion. Borgman, the titular
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Plane crashes at airshow in Turkey; pilot killed
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says a jet has crashed during an airshow in southern Turkey, killing its pilot. The Anadolu Agency says there were no other casualties in Sunday’s crash in the southern city of Adana. There was no immediate information on the plane’s type. The agency says the airshow was part
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Lottery officials announce winning numbers in Powerball jackpot
DES MOINES, Iowa – Lottery officials say the winning numbers in a near-historic Powerball jackpot have been drawn. They are: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and Powerball 11. Officials say the latest Powerball jackpot figure results are still pending. They had estimated it at $600 million. With four of every five possible combinations of Powerball
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‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ dampened but not washed out at Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France – Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for “Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film’s lavish Cannes party. Stars of the “Hunger Games” sequel, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Clafin, arrived Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. “Catching Fire,” perhaps more than any other film not actually screening
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Gunmen kill senior member of former Pakistani cricket star’s political party
KARACHI, Pakistan – Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice-president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan’s
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Officials survey damage from Conn. train collision, call it ‘frankly amazing’ that no one died
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it’s fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren’t even more injuries. Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, which damaged the
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Jury hears differing versions of Jackson’s health from defence witnesses in 3rd week of trial
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead: THE CASE Jackson’s mother wants a jury to determine that the promoter of
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For Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, Cannes success leads to careers without borders
CANNES, France – The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the grey Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette. But the world’s leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo
