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• At Cannes, Emma Watson says 'Harry Potter' feels long ago

  Thursday at the French Riviera festival. Watson plays a celebrity-obsessed Los Angeles teenager who, with a group of friends, burgles Hollywood stars.With a thick Valley Girl accent, it's a character far from the wise-beyond-her-years Hermione of " Harry Potter   Read more »

• Demi Lovato's 'Demi' review: Natural next step

  on her 2011 breakthrough album "Unbroken," is ready to prove herself as an artist and a worthy "X Factor" mentor with "Demi" ( Hollywood ).The new album builds on the successes of "Unbroken," with the inspirational ballads "Nightingale" and "In Case" following   Read more »

• Chris Brown's 'scary' house graffiti irks LA neighbors

  musician Chris Brown's neighbors are unhappy with the creepy art he's chosen to have painted along the curb of his Hollywood Hills home.A neighborhood group said the grimacing, sharp-toothed, red-eyed goblins painted along a retaining wall have been scaring   Read more »

• Lucasfilm: New 'Star Wars' movie to be shot in UK

  -- The next "Star Wars" movie will be shot in a galaxy far, far away from Hollywood -- Britain.Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy says the company has reached a deal with British Treasury chief George Osborne to make "Star Wars: Episode VII" in the U.K.She   Read more »

• 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis convicted of assault, faces five years in prison

  sentencing was set for Wednesday.Francis met the three women as they celebrated a college graduation at a the Supper Club in Hollywood on Jan. 29, 2011, took one of them by the hand as he left and took her to his limo, and the other two followed thinking Francis   Read more »

Around the web

• PAULINE M. QUINN

  28, 1955 - May 16, 2013 Middletown, NY Pauline M. Quinn, the daughter of William Francis and Sarah Patricia Hollywood Quinn, died at home on Thursday, May 16, 2013. She was 57. Pauline was born on June 28, 1955 in Newry, County Down in Northern Ireland. She 4 m ago from Times Herald-Record Read more »

• Angelina Jolie shows what a hero really is

  But the first step towards change, for everyone, is to challenge the status quo, even if it requires the fight of a lifetime. Hollywood, which remains tied to cowardly familiarities, understands little of that bravery. This summer’s lineup, with its reliance 2:09 AM from New York Daily News Read more »

• Rare gift coming to the University Art Museum at CSU

  documented. Frickman said, These are the kinds of things you would only see at a major metropolitan museum. Reflecting their Hollywood ties, their home also contained memorabilia from their famous friends, such as a photo of Clark Gable in an automobile with 1:53 AM from The Coloradoan Read more »

• Creature with scissor-like claws named after Johnny Depp

  Angeles, May 19 (PTI) An obscure, extinct creature that had scissor-like claws is being named after Hollywood star Johnny Depp, who played Edward Scissorhands in the 1990 movie. The actor, known for taking on quirky characters in his movies, had the rare honour 1:05 AM from MSN India Read more »

• To '3' or not to '3': Hollywood's franchise fever

  with no guarantee "Man of Steel" will do franchise-worthy business. Superman at least has an audience and track record. Hollywood's bigger risks this summer are costly action spectacles with little or no big-screen history. Warner's "Pacific Rim" has a visionary 1:05 AM from Reading Eagle Read more »