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Megan Fox gets top dollar in Armani endorsement

Confirming that endorsement deals still have cachet in a recession, "Transformers" star Megan Fox is pulling down a seven-figure payday to model Armani underwear and jeans. The 23-year-old will be the new face of Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jea...

Key winners at Cannes, Berlin compete for Oscars

Top prize-winners from the Cannes and Berlin film festivals are among 65 movies competing for the foreign-language honor at the Academy Awards next March. Oscar contenders include Germany's "The White Ribbon," director Michael Haneke's sober drama that...

65 films contend for foreign-language Oscar

Here are the 65 foreign-language contenders for the 82nd Academy Awards, along with the names of the directors and countries of origin: Albania, "Alive!," Artan Minarolli. Argentina, "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Juan Jose Campanella. Armenia, "Autumn of t...

Clooney laments decline in media standards

George Clooney thinks something has gone wrong when the media prints celebrity rumor and innuendo as fact. The star, a journalist's son, said a news story used to require "two reliable sources, and that doesn't seem to exist as much anymore." Clooney s...

Tate Modern replaces nude image of Brooke Shields

Britain's Tate Modern museum has replaced a nude image of 10-year-old Brooke Shields with a photograph of the actress as an adult. The Tate closed a room housing the "Spiritual America 1983" image by artist Richard Prince after a visit two weeks ago by...

Afghan director: Insurgency threatens movie scene

A Golden Globe-winning Afghan director who made the country's first post-Taliban movie says he's worried the group's resurgence may threaten artistic freedom again. Insurgents have gained so much ground in Afghanistan that even the top U.S. commander t...

Review: Hits and misses make up `NY, I Love You'

The title is "New York, I Love You," and it's a collection of shorts intended as one big love letter to the city and all the romance it has to offer. The result is a curiously bland hodgepodge _ not terribly evocative of such a famous place, and not al...

Megan Fox, Hugh Jackman to appear at `Scream 2009'

Megan Fox, Hugh Jackman, Tobey Maguire and Quentin Taratino will celebrate the creepy and otherworldly at "Scream 2009." All are set to appear on the Spike TV special, which will be taped Saturday at the Greek Theater and air Oct. 27, the network annou...

Gorgeous `Wild Things' roars to the screen

"Where the Wild Things Are," the book, is just 339 words long. But in turning it into "Where the Wild Things Are," the movie, director Spike Jonze has expanded the basic story with a breathtaking visual scheme and stirring emotional impact. It's a gorg...

Danger lurks in Jonze adaptation of `Wild Things'

Spike Jonze recalls how Maurice Sendak urged him to make the movie version of "Where the Wild Things Are" as dangerous as the book was when the children's classic came out in 1963. The question now is whether Jonze made it too dangerous. The film arriv...

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