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Ex-Beatle's Widow Lauds Ravi Shankar at U.S. Memorial

Former Beatle George Harrison's widow Olivia joined hundreds of fans and family of Ravi Shankar on Thursday at an open-air memorial to the Indian sitar legend near his California home.

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the late musician who died last week near San Diego, and her half-sister Grammy-winning singer Norah Jones also paid their last respects at the service in a palm tree-lined meditation center.

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Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Reaches One Billion Views

Psy's "Gangnam Style" became the first video to hit a billion views on YouTube on Friday, marking a fresh milestone in the global craze for the South Korean rapper and his horse-riding dance.

The view counter attached to "Gangnam Style," which was only posted on the video-sharing site July 15, clicked over into 10 figures at around 1550 GMT, confirming its status as the most viewed video in the site's history.

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China 'V for Vendetta' Broadcast Amazes Viewers

China's state-run television network shocked viewers by broadcasting "V for Vendetta", an anarchist-themed film showing an uprising against an authoritarian government.

Chinese Internet users expressed surprise after watching the broadcast, circulating subversive lines from the movie including: "The people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people."

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Movie Review: Life of Pi - 2012

Written by Anthony Sargon

Too many films are in 3D nowadays, and it's unwarranted most of the time. The glasses can be cumbersome, the effects get blurry, and colors darken significantly. Never, though, has a movie been so perfect for the 3D format as "Life of Pi", easily the most visually impressive film this reviewer has ever seen in his life.

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'Cirque du Soleil' Makes 3D Leap to the Big Screen

Oscar-winning director James Cameron, who broke new ground with 3D technology with "Avatar," is bringing that knowhow to Cirque du Soleil, producing a 3D film featuring the high-flying acrobatic troupe.

Cameron acted as executive producer and camera operator for "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away" -- a movie spectacle which brings the group's breathtaking aerial routines to the big screen for the first time.

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'Lincoln' Comes to U.S. Senate Amid Fiscal Cliff Showdown

As members of the U.S. Senate struggle to bridge their all-too familiar differences on a looming fiscal crisis, perhaps the image of Abraham Lincoln will spur gridlocked lawmakers into action.

"Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Steven Spielberg on Wednesday found themselves at the U.S. Senate, where Democrats and Republicans bickering over gun laws, aid to superstorm Sandy victims and a looming "fiscal cliff" came together to watch the Hollywood drama about America's 16th president.

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U.S. Senators Slam Oscar-Tipped Bin Laden Movie

Three top U.S. senators, including former White House hopeful John McCain, on Wednesday slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt movie for suggesting that torture helped find the Al-Qaeda chief.

In a letter to Sony Pictures head Michael Lynton, Democratic senators Diane Feinstein and Carl Levin and Republican McCain took issue with "Zero Dark Thirty," the new film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow.

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Miss USA Olivia Culpo Crowned Miss Universe

 A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described "cellist-nerd" brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest Wednesday.

Olivia Culpo beat out 88 other beauty queens to take the title from Leila Lopes of Angola during the two-hour competition at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

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Rina Chibany Competes Tonight for the Title of Miss Universe

Miss Lebanon 2012 Rina Chibany will compete on Thursday in the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas.

Chibany, who reserved her spot in the pageant after beating 15 contestants in the national competition, among them her twin sister first runner-up Romy, will join 88 women from around the world who are preparing to don evening gowns, show their interview skills and strut in swimsuits in hopes of becoming the next Miss Universe.

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Obama is Time Person of Year for Second Time

Time magazine on Wednesday named recently re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama as its person of the year for 2012 -- the second time it has accorded him the accolade.

Obama now not only has a reelection as America's first black president and a Nobel peace prize under his belt, but he beat fancied runners-up, including brave Pakistani girls' rights activist Malala Yousafzai, to be enshrined again as Time's dominant personality of the year.

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