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Die-hard fans pay $500 to see 'Star Wars'
May 12 2005 11:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In the original 1977 film "Star Wars," a brash young boy named Luke Skywalker parts with his prized speeder to pay for a ride on a spaceship named the Millennium Falcon. Almost three decades later, fans parted with $500 to attend a premiere of "Star Wars: Episode III _ Revenge of the Sith."
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Actor Tucker pleads guilty to speeding
May 12 2005 7:00PM (CT)
WARRENTON, Ga. (AP) - Chris Tucker has pleaded guilty to speeding and eluding police during a brief car chase last month. The actor told authorities he didn't hear their sirens because he was on his way to church.
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Woody Allen goes British in 'Match Point'
May 12 2005 5:13PM (CT)
CANNES, France (AP) - Woody Allen came to the Cannes Film Festival to confess. Turns out the quintessential Manhattan filmmaker is an Anglophile at heart.
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Iraqi film at Cannes for first time
May 12 2005 5:12PM (CT)
CANNES, France (AP) - For an Iraqi filmmaker on location in his homeland, one of the biggest hassles was getting hold of a key prop: a statue of Saddam Hussein.
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Wallace & Gromit do Cannes in preview
May 12 2005 1:26PM (CT)
CANNES, France (AP) - The latest stars of the Cannes Film Festival have feet literally made of clay. The cheese-obsessed Brit and his crafty canine companion of the "Wallace & Gromit" TV films turned up in a preview of their first big-screen clay-animated adventure.
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'Star Wars' created a galaxy all its own
May 12 2005 8:59AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Like the all-powerful tractor beam of the Death Star, "Star Wars" has exerted an inexorable force in popular culture. When "Star Wars" premiered to the public at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on May 25, 1977, a great line of people formed _ despite mild expectations for the peculiar, Zen-themed sci-fi epic.
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Lucas glad to leave Star Wars behind
May 12 2005 8:31AM (CT)
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) - A wilted monolith of establishment politics. An entrenched ruling class fearful of change. And one man who stealthily rebels from within, turning the system on its head and bending it to his will.
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Norway gives Liv Ullmann highest honors
May 12 2005 7:52AM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Liv Ullmann has been awarded one of Norway's highest royal honors, the Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav.
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Jolie hails 'strength' of Sierra Leone
May 12 2005 7:36AM (CT)
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Angelina Jolie, on a goodwill visit to Sierra Leone, said she was overwhelmed by the "strength and spirit" of a nation struggling to recover from a decade of brutal conflict.
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