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		<title>&#8216;Arab Idol&#8217; winner hailed at his debut in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Assaf, the winner of the &#8220;Arab Idol&#8221; talent competition held in Beirut in June, brought his thumping Palestinian beats out of the Middle East for the first time Sunday in his electrifying European debut. Assaf, 24, from the Gaza Strip, became a national hero and a rare symbol of Palestinian unity when he won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ailing New York City Opera fears bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City Opera could be sounding its final note this weekend &#8212; at least for a while. The 70-year-old company says it plans to file for bankruptcy and scrap the bulk of its 2013-2014 season unless it somehow manages to reach its fund-raising goal, which it admitted is not likely. &#8220;The board has voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper Lee tries to stop museum over use of title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; author Harper Lee is at odds with a museum in her Alabama hometown over use of the words in the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Lee is seeking a trademark for the words when they are used on clothing. The Monroe County Heritage Museum in Monroeville is opposing the application, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World watches U.S. TV — but not always legally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fun TV fact: &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; is a cult hit in North Korea. Slightly less surprisingly, shows like &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; and &#8220;House&#8221; are watched everywhere, from Latin America to China to France. But as America&#8217;s TV stars and bosses gathered in Los Angeles this weekend for the Emmys, the massive success of U.S. shows abroad also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Breaking Bad,&#8217; &#8216;Modern Family&#8217; take top Emmys</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cult crime show &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; won the best drama Emmy on Sunday, but there was disappointment for &#8220;House of Cards,&#8221; which had hoped to win the first major award for an online-only series. The best comedy award went to &#8220;Modern Family,&#8221; the fourth year in a row it has topped the category, while &#8220;Big Bang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacman, Peso and Pyongyang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 13:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a Kickstarter project was posted on the Internet featuring two young men who went by the names of Pacman and Peso.]]></description>
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		<title>Carolyn Cassady  of Beat fame dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Cassady, a writer who was married to Jack Kerouac&#8217;s traveling companion and a lover of the famous Beat author, has died in a hospital near her home in Bracknell, southeastern England. She was 90 years old. She was married to Neal Cassady &#8212; a central character in the Beat generation and the basis of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Booker Prize admits American literary works in global expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Man Booker Prize announced on Wednesday that it was expanding to cover all novels written in the English language, meaning American authors will be eligible for the first time. The &#163;50,000 (&#36;80,000) Booker prize has until now been awarded annually for the best work of fiction by an author from Britain, Ireland or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final season of acclaimed U.S. TV drama &#8216;Mad Men&#8217; to be split in two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final season of award-winning U.S. television show &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; will be split in two, airing in 2014 and 2015, the cable channel that broadcasts it said Tuesday. In an announcement days before this year&#8217;s Emmy Awards, AMC said it hoped to increase ratings for the show, centered on a New York advertising agency in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New set of Beatles songs, chat to be released</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A box set of previously unreleased recordings and studio chat by The Beatles, including early hits and cover versions, is to be released later this year, their record company said Friday. The tracks, taken from radio broadcasts at the British Broadcasting Corp. in 1963 and 1964, include 37 performances that have never been issued before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowie tops Mercury Prize shortlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rock icon David Bowie&#8217;s re-emergence into the limelight continued on Wednesday when he was named on the shortlist for the Mercury Prize, one of Britain&#8217;s most prestigious music awards. The winners of the award, for the best British or Irish album of any genre released in the year to July, will be announced in London [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activist, filmmaker Landau dies at 77</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saul Landau, an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work gave an unprecedented glimpse into Fidel Castro&#8217;s Cuba, and who co-wrote a riveting account of a Washington assassination linked to Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet, died Sept. 9 at his home in Alameda, California. He was 77. The cause was bladder cancer, said his daughter, Valerie Landau. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>007&#8242;s Lotus Sub sells for &#163;550,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Reyburn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A James Bond Lotus submarine and a 1957 Maserati sold last night at a &#36;33 million car auction. The Lotus Esprit Series 1 prop, propelled through the water by a working electric motor in the 1977 film &#8220;The Spy Who Loved Me,&#8221; fetched &#163;550,000 (&#163;616,000 with fees), below a low estimate of &#163;650,000 at hammer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Marvel&#8217;s film magic made us true believers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey A. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marvel Comics revolutionized the superhero genre in the 1960s with comic book characters such as Spider-Man, Thor, Iron-Man and The Hulk. Colorfully costumed adventurers who fought criminals and alien monsters primarily on the streets of New York City, and who, despite their incredible superpowers, struggled with personal and social problems. Stan Lee, the architect of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British critics savage &#8216;squirmingly embarrassing&#8217; Princess Diana film</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics savaged &#8220;Diana,&#8221; a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash 16 years ago, just hours after its world premiere Thursday. Lead actress Naomi Watts has already defended her involvement in the controversial film, which follows Diana&#8217;s romance with London-based Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan. But within hours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acclaimed sci-fi author Frederik Pohl dies at 93</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frederik Pohl, who helped shape and popularize science fiction as an influential agent, editor and award-winning author, died Sept. 2 at a hospital near his home in Palatine, Illinois. He was 93. His death was confirmed by a granddaughter, author Emily Pohl-Weary. An entry on Pohl&#8217;s website noted that he &#8220;went to the hospital in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Direction&#8217;s new movie is a sign of the times</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/30/entertainment-news/one-directions-new-movie-is-a-sign-of-the-times/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=one-directions-new-movie-is-a-sign-of-the-times</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Morley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beatles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Direction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pop films]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us discreetly looking forward to a theatrically released film featuring One Direction were perhaps hoping for something more captivating and ingenious than a glorified electronic press kit. We wanted something that didn&#8217;t represent the depthless, scandal-mongering, narrow-minded, pleasure-seeking spirit of the times; the efficient result of a few business meetings, and the occasional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop star or avant-garde artist? Lady Gaga now wants to be the next Warhol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Thorpe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andy Warhol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lady Gaga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The message is crystal clear: do not buy Lady Gaga&#8217;s latest album or download tracks because she is &#8220;over&#8221; and &#8220;no longer relevant.&#8221; Many will be happy to obey, but it&#8217;s not quite that simple. The clarity of the instruction is undermined by the fact that it&#8217;s Gaga herself who is telling her audience to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Influential crime novelist Leonard dies at 87</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elmore Leonard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elmore Leonard, a masterful crime novelist whose razor-sharp dialogue and indelibly realized lowlifes earned him an unusual mix of mass-market appeal and highbrow acclaim, dies at his home in Michigan.]]></description>
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		<title>Asia&#8217;s A-listers take their seats on fashion&#8217;s front row</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Rowe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving at a Christian Dior fashion show in Paris surrounded by a gaggle of photographers and minders, Korean star Gianna Jun quickly eclipsed the already seated Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence. One of the best-known faces in Asia following a string of box-office smashes, the actress is among an elite group of its bankable names attracting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal media machine protects newborn prince, for the moment</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/27/entertainment-news/royal-media-machine-protects-newborn-prince-for-the-moment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=royal-media-machine-protects-newborn-prince-for-the-moment</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Kemp</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The British monarchy&#8217;s formidable media machine has handled the birth of the royal baby smoothly, but huge challenges lie ahead to protect young Prince George&#8217;s privacy, commentators said Wednesday. The frenzy that erupted when Prince William and his wife Kate gave international journalists their first glimpse of the boy on Tuesday is just a taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Oasis singer Gallagher sued over secret U.S. love child</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liam Gallagher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liam Gallagher is being sued in a New York court by a woman who claims he is the father of her 1-year-old daughter, the New York Post reported Wednesday. A spokesman for the British rock star would not comment on the tabloid&#8217;s claims but said lawyers would be taking action over the report. The Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. chef Lawson, Saatchi to divorce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British art collector Charles Saatchi and his celebrity chef wife, Nigella Lawson, said Monday they would not make any financial claims against each other to ensure a swift divorce. Saatchi, 70, was cautioned by police last month for assaulting his 53-year-old wife, after photos emerged showing him grabbing her neck at a London restaurant. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fugitive in limbo: It&#8217;s a familiar story in music, movies, television</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He fled the United States for Hong Kong, then left Hong Kong for Russia. Now he&#8217;s withdrawn his request for political asylum there without having received a guarantee of safe harbor anywhere else. All of which leaves NSA leaker Edward Snowden sitting in a Moscow airport in a kind of legal limbo, with no country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We see ourselves in celebrities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertie Brandes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are all guilty of harboring certain fascinations with celebrities. I don&#8217;t care how many times you might loudly sigh as your friends discuss model and actress Kelly Brook&#8217;s most recent holiday snaps, you&#8217;d be hard-pushed to find anyone who wasn&#8217;t interested in the life of at least one specific someone, be it a particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese film picks up prize at Moscow festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tatsushi Omori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ravie of Goodbye]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Ravine of Goodbye,&#8221; a Japanese film by director Tatsushi Omori, won the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival that ended Saturday, while &#8220;The Particle,&#8221; a drama by Turkish director and writer Erdem Tepegoz, won the best film prize. &#8220;The Particle&#8221; depicts the struggles of a working-class woman in Istanbul. Turkish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza singer wins &#8216;Arab Idol&#8217; show, is named U.N., Palestinian envoy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf on Saturday won a pan-Arab singing contest that has had millions of viewers glued to their TV screens since March, sparking celebrations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. As Palestinians took to the streets to celebrate Assaf&#8217;s &#8220;Arab Idol&#8221; victory, he dedicated the win to &#8220;the Palestinian people, who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Lopez gets 2,500th star on Hollywood Walk of Fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez was honored June 20 with the 2,500th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, joined by celebrities including Jane Fonda and watched by screaming fans. &#8220;I really am overwhelmed,&#8221; she said at the ceremony on Tinseltown&#8217;s star-studded sidewalk, a tourist favorite. &#8220;This all feels, I don&#8217;t know, kind of surreal, but so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film legends warn of industry &#8216;implosion&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thurston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood legends Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have sparked a surge of debate in Tinseltown after warning that the film industry is set to implode, amid soaring budgets and cable TV rivalry. &#8220;E.T.&#8221; icon Spielberg revealed that his Oscar-winning political biopic &#8220;Lincoln&#8221; almost didn&#8217;t make it into theaters last year, while Lucas said the path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actor Ethan Hawke: still playing all the angles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethan Hawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ethan Hawke is out and about in New York, the city he&#8217;s lived in for 30 years, a place where famous faces slide past every day. He&#8217;s wearing a baseball cap, a hoodie and a pair of cords. It&#8217;s an outfit you might think he chose especially to look nondescript, but in reality it&#8217;s because [...]]]></description>
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