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AP - A martial-arts movie by David Mamet.
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AP - Ian McKellen will again take up the robes of Gandalf the Wizard in the cinematic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic “The Hobbit,” a British film magazine reported Wednesday.
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AP - Vin Diesel has stopped chasing bad guys long enough to endorse the president of the Dominican Republic for re-election.
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AP - Like “Be Kind Rewind” from earlier this year, the small comedy “Son of Rambow” has a love of movies and is bursting with unbridled imagination.

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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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There is nothing remotely fuddy-duddy about Mindy and Brad Reese.

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If the thought of opening up your mutual statement makes you squeamish or if you avert your eyes whenever CNBC comes on at the gym, it’s understandable. This has been one ferocious stock market. Not only has Wall Street been flirting with a bear market - conventionally defined as a 20% decline in the major indexes - but we’re now in “the second-worst eight-year period for stocks since the 1930s,” says money manager Martha Ortiz of Aronson Johnson & Ortiz in Philadelphia.

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