AP - A martial-arts movie by David Mamet.

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AP - After asking Bollywood actors not to smoke on screen, India’s health minister has called on movie heroes to stop drinking alcohol on camera, while hinting that the booze could stay in villains’ cups, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

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AP - When Gwyneth Paltrow made the rounds to promote “Iron Man,” the buzz wasn’t about the Oscar winner’s return to the screen after an extended hiatus. It wasn’t about the curious casting of a serious actress as a superhero’s secretary. It was about her shoes.

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AP - The classic superhero is polished, brave and morally righteous. Strong and unerring, he is perfection personified — a superhuman ideal.

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AP - A book about the rise and stunning decline of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, co-authored by the makers of a book and documentary about the fall of Enron, is being published by Penguin Group (USA), Penguin imprint Portfolio announced Wednesday.

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Reuters - British actor Ian McKellen will reprise the role of the wizard Gandalf in the upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” he told a film magazine.

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E! Online - Sir Ian McKellen is going there and back again.

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Reuters - What struck U.S. filmmaker Kief Davidson about Ugandan child soldier turned world champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouma was that he was always smiling.

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Reuters - Viral marketing has gone positively bubonic. While this unconventional approach to building buzz online is nothing new, it has achieved full-blown plague status in the walk-up to the summer movie season.

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Reuters - At first, it wouldn’t seem likely that the story of high-wire walker Philippe Petit’s notorious 1974 unauthorized crossing from one tower of the World Trade Center to the other would make a promising subject for a full-length documentary.

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