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Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story

Sat, 25 May 2013 20:32 EDT

In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321.

NYPD investigating actress Bynes allegations

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:56 EDT

Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

Bill Clinton, other celebs at Vienna AIDS charity

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:17 EDT

Cross-dressers, half-naked revelers, a famed fashion designer, entertainment icons and a former U.S. president shared the spotlight in the Austrian capital for the Life Ball, a night of hedonistic revelry for a good cause - the funding of AIDS research.

Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:51 EDT

James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality.

Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:45 EDT

Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"

Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:51 EDT

An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:15 EDT

The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.

A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:56 EDT

Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:10 EDT

Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre.

Civil trial over Jackson's death focuses on AEG

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:50 EDT

A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead: