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Don’t get Jason Mraz talking about his avocado farm. You’ll never get around to speaking in all directions his music.
When the San Diego singer-songwriter was in Los Angeles promoting his new album, "We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things," he couldn’t hide his excitement roughly his five-acre orchard.
"I do sell my avocados," [...]

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Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved critical acclaim with the full stop drama "Out of Africa" and the romantic comedy "Tootsie," died of cancer Monday, his agent told CNN.
Pollack, 73, died at his home in Los Angeles. He was surrounded by his wife of nearly 50 years, Claire Griswold, their two daughters, [...]

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Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In" took video receiver during storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
Martin, who went on to become one of television’s busiest [...]

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Unless it is one of his "Ocean’s Eleven" casino romps, Steven Soderbergh on no account makes things easy for an audience.
With his epic film biography of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Soderbergh defiantly has made the story he wanted to see, one that will prove a very [...]

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Two documentaries at this year’s Cannes Film Festival deal with sporting legends.
In both cases, however, their immense achievements are coupled by way of an equally impressive appetite for self-destruction.
The footballer Diego Maradona provides the subject for an intimate portrait by one of Europe’s most respected directors and twice prizewinner of the Palme d’Or, [...]

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Donna Summer didn’t know who was going to win "American Idol," but she had some kind-hearted notification for the prospective winner.
"Save your money. Seriously save your well off," she told reporters in the backstage pressroom at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre prior to the "Idol" finale. "For the first year, don’t buy any major [...]

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Harlem isn’t the first place that comes to brain when Possibly man thinks of a movie premiere. The Chinese Theater in Hollywood? Definitely. The Ziegfeld in Manhattan? Of ambit.
The AMC Magic Johnson Theatre complex on 125th Street? Not so much.
But there were Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf Tuesday evening, right around the corner [...]

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Harrison Ford has pulled a Steve Carell for a public service announcement: He got his chest waxed.
The 65-year-old star winces in apparent pain as a strip of hair is yanked from his thorax ‘ in the advert for Conservation International to raise awareness about the effect of deforestation on global warming.
The actor, who [...]

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A scandal involving a New York governor and a prostitute has the makings of a classic ripped-from-the-headlines plot for NBC’s "Law & Order."
But Wednesday’s season finale about a governor and a call girl isn’t about Eliot Spitzer, cautions series star Sam Waterston — although it’s fair to answer anyone, even Waterston, could get a [...]

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Indiana Jones received louder acclaim going in than he did coming out.
His latest adventure, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," earned a respectful — though far from glowing — reception Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, avoiding the sort of thrashing the event’s unharmonious critics gave to "The Da Vinci Code" [...]

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