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Hollywood asks: who needs Harry Potter?

LOS ANGELES - Boy wizard Harry Potter won't be whipping up his magic when the fall film season begins next week, but Hollywood is hoping momentum from summer hits like "The Dark Knight" and a wide mix of new movies will keep audiences happy into the holidays. Two weeks ago, Warner Bros. yanked "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" from a November release and pushed it to next July, which could spell trouble at box offices because the previous four "Potter" films averaged $920 million in worldwide ticket sales. That is a lot of movie magic.

Winehouse falls ill, misses Paris concert

LONDON - British soul singer Amy Winehouse pulled out of a Paris concert at short notice on Friday after falling ill at home in London, her spokesman has said. The 24-year-old, whose battle against drug addiction has overshadowed her recording successes, had been due to appear at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris.

Documentary shows tough reality of doctors in war

VENICE - A new documentary on aid workers in war zones shows the tough choices, dilemmas and limits faced by doctors providing emergency care in extreme conditions. Shot in 2005-2006 and presented at the Venice film festival, "Living in Emergency" follows four Western volunteers working in Africa for Doctors Without Borders , the French-based aid agency which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Basinger and Theron team up for complex love story

VENICE - Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in "The Burning Plain," an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. The film is the first of five U.S. entries to appear in the main competition at the Venice film festival, and was warmly applauded by critics and journalists on Friday at a press screening ahead of its red carpet world premiere.

Frank film looks at daily life in troubled Kashmir

VENICE - A new film set in Indian Kashmir seeks to go beyond stereotypes of the troubled region as either the idyllic backdrop to Bollywood movies or the subject of news reports and documentaries into the violence. "Zero Bridge," by U.S.-born Tariq Tapa in his directorial debut, is a low-key, partly-improvised drama about a rebellious Kashmiri teenager who turns to petty crime in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian part of the divided region.

Kenny Rogers releases exclusive hits collection

NASHVILLE - Seventy-year-old superstar Kenny Rogers is celebrating 50 years in the music business and has invited Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores along for the fun. Sold exclusively at Cracker Barrel stores and on crackerbarrel.com, "Kenny Rogers: 50 Years" includes some of his biggest hits, including "The Gambler," "Lucille," "Coward of the County," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" (with Dolly Parton). There are also three new songs -- "She'll Believe in You," "Something's Wrong in Vegas" and "Only Time Will Tell."

Cuban punk rocker fined for disobedience

HAVANA - A Cuban punk rocker whose songs have ridiculed the Cuban government was fined for public disorder on Friday after prosecutors reduced a more serious "social dangerousness" charge that could have sent him to prison for four years. Gorki Aguila, 39, was ordered to pay 600 Cuban pesos, or about $30, for playing his music too loud during rehearsal, his father Luis Aguila said.

Detective to stars, attorney guilty of wiretapping

LOS ANGELES - A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's bitter child support dispute. A jury found sleuth Anthony Pellicano, 64, guilty of tapping the phones of Lisa Bonder, Kerkorian's ex-wife, in 2002, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney.

David Duchovny's sex disorder likened to alcoholism

LOS ANGELES - Did life imitate art when David Duchovny, who plays a sex-mad writer on the hit US TV show "Californication," seek treatment for sex addiction? Or was it case of art imitating life for the "X-Files" actor -- regarded as one of the hottest men in Hollywood and whose off-screen romances have long been a talking point.

Michael Jackson turns 50, shadow of a superstar

LOS ANGELES - Singer Michael Jackson turned 50 on Friday, a shadow of the superstar once known as the "King of Pop" whose records thrilled millions before his bizarre personal life eclipsed his musical brilliance. Unlike Madonna's 50th birthday bash and launch of another world tour earlier this month, the singer who wishes he was Peter Pan appears to have no special celebrations planned and a much-touted musical comeback has so far come to nothing.

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