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Beatles Romp at Latest Woodstock Film Festival

The Beatles are finally appearing at a Woodstock festival.

A restored version of the Beatles' 1967 made-for-British-TV psychedelic romp "Magical Mystery Tour" will be featured at the annual Woodstock Film Festival kicking off Wednesday. The movie and a new documentary about how it was made will be among 130 narrative and documentary films shown over five days in and around the Hudson Valley arts colony that lent its name to the 1969 music festival.

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More Room at the Top for Women in TV

Women are reshaping the landscape of TV and digital entertainment as more and more female executives clinch top industry jobs around the world, a shift on full display at this week's MIPCOM audiovisual trade fair.

Held each year on the French Riviera at the same site as the Cannes Film Festival, MIPCOM brings together the movers and shakers of the global entertainment business to network, talk shop and buy, sell and finance new content.

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Extravagant Gifts Likely in Neiman Marcus' Catalog

If you're in search of an extravagant holiday gift, something like a $1 million fountain, look no further.

Dallas-based luxury retailer Neiman Marcus will be offering up ideas Tuesday when it unveils its annual Christmas Book. The catalog is known for featuring expensive and often outrageous "fantasy gifts."

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Woman on 'Wife Swap' as Teen to Plead Not Guilty

A former teen pageant princess featured in an eyebrow-raising episode of the TV show "Wife Swap" getting spray-tanned by her father and pitying the less attractive will plead not guilty this week to charges of prostitution and drug possession, her lawyer said.

Alicia Guastaferro was arrested at a western New York Thruway travel plaza in August.

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French, Austrian Films in Oscars Foreign Long-List

French blockbuster "Les Intouchables" and Austrian Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner "Love" are hot tips for best foreign language Oscar, from a long-list of candidates published Monday.

Hong Kong movie master Johnnie To and China's Chen Kaige -- whose "Farewell my Concubine" won the top Cannes film festival prize in 1993 -- are also among films from 71 countries which could be vying for an Academy statuette.

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U.S Actor Devito Splits From Wife of 30 Years

U.S. comic actor Danny DeVito has separated from his wife of 30 years Rhea Perlman, his spokesman said Monday, ending one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.

The diminutive actor, 67, and actress Perlman, 64, married in 1982, 12 years after meeting when she went to see a Broadway show he was acting in, "The Shrinking Bride."

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Moore Teases Fellow Bond Connery Over Scottish Independence

Roger Moore and Sean Connery had the same mission when playing British spy James Bond, but the screen legends are split on the issue of Scottish independence, The Times newspaper reported Monday.

Connery is a keen backer of the pro-independence Scottish National Party of First Minister Alex Salmond, while Moore is often cited as the epitome of Englishness.

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Broadway Stars Audra Mcdonald, Will Swenson Wed

Audra McDonald and Will Swenson have tied the knot, cementing a relationship between two of Broadway's best looking and talented stars.

According to a publicist for the bride, the couple married Saturday at their home in Croton-on-Hudson in New York. The bride's wedding dress was designed by Esosa.

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'Taken 2' Tops North American Box Office on Debut

Liam Neeson's return as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in "Taken 2" easily topped the North American box office on its opening weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.

The film, whose prequel relaunched Neeson as a Hollywood action star four years ago, took in a healthy $50 million between Friday and Sunday, said movie tracker Exhibitor Relations.

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French Rocker Johnny Hallyday Does NY, First Time Since 60s

He's 69 and had health problems of late, but French rocker Johnny Hallyday sounds like a wired teenager when he talks about his first performance in New York in 50 years.

"A two-hour show, with music from the 70s up through to today, with fantastic musicians. It is going to be true rock 'n' roll. We're going to bring the house down," Hallyday told Agence France Presse in an interview.

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