July 31 - The curtain came down Sunday on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ after more than 13 years on Broadway. The musical based on the celebrated Disney film closed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

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Reuters - Don Cheadle, Woody Allen, Liam Neeson and Michael Douglas will lend star wattage to some politically charged documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 6-15), organizers said Tuesday.

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AP - Frank Marshall won’t rule out another sequel to the Jason Bourne films, but says the story has already ventured far afield from Robert Ludlum’s novels.

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AP - MIAMI (AP) — A federal bankruptcy judge has awarded the rights of O.J. Simpson’s canceled “If I Did It” book to the family of the late Ronald Goldman to satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against the former football star.

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July 31 - Corey Clark has been arrested on drug charges and an outstanding warrant from Arizona.

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AP - “Shrek the Third” proved to be a charm for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., contributing nearly half of its revenue in the second quarter, the company said Tuesday.

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AP - A selection of works by Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni:

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AP - In Michelangelo Antonioni’s movies, dialogue was sparse, shots lengthy and action minimal. This abstract style and a ruthless exploration of the malaise of modern man made the Italian director a darling of avant-garde cinema and a celebrated filmmaker across the world.

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AP - In the 1987 movie “Broadcast News,” Aaron Altman, played by Albert Brooks, has one shot at the anchor’s seat, only to be beset by a rabid case of flop sweat.

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AP - All along, they’ve been calling this the summer of threes — you know how “they” can be, putting things into tidy little boxes. And they focused mainly on the ballyhooed blockbusters that came out at the beginning of the summer: third installments in the “Spider-Man,”"Shrek” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchises.

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