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Film: Catching up with Bruce Willis

When a guy spends 30 years as a private investigator, a terrorist-fighting detective and a doctor who sees dead people -- among other things -- winning a lifetime-achievement award sounds about right. That's what Bruce Willis gets for being Bruce Willis. The folks at the Sonoma International Film Festival will be honoring the actor with that award Saturday.

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Film: Meet Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg of 'Adventureland'

When Kristen Stewart was making "Adventureland," she was just another young actress whom most people had never heard of. Then "Twilight" came out and changed all of that. In this creepy romantic tale, based on a popular teen novel, she plays a high-school student who falls truly, madly, deeply in love with a vampire.

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Majestic Michelle revives a weary nation

Every new bride should be lucky enough to have a honeymoon as long as Michelle Obama's. When Air Force One opened its doors at Stansted -- London's grimmest airport, usually filled with budget travelers in vinyl flip-flops -- America's first lady stood tall against the night sky in an acid-yellow dress.

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TV: Talking with 'Special Agent Oso' creator Ford Riley

Creators of children's TV often cite the work of Fred Rogers on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" as an influence, but for Ford Riley, there was a more direct impact. Riley, the creator of Disney Channel's new "Special Agent Oso," grew up in Pittsburgh, the iconic figure's home base.

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Film: Talking with 'Adventureland' director Greg Mottola

Director Greg Mottola would like to thank every girl out there who dumped him, didn't return his phone calls and stood him up for dates.
He's also grateful to the studios that rejected his screenplays, the TV-network executives who canceled his shows and the film-festival panels that stiffed him on awards.

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TV: Lou Diamond Phillips on faith, ethnicity and directing

Best known for "Stand and Deliver" and "La Bamba," actor Lou Diamond Phillips, 47, is also a writer and director and recently spent seven months on the road playing King Arthur in "Camelot."

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Old-school action heroes return to screen

Marion Cobretti dispensed no end of fantastic advice in the 1986 film "Cobra." This was, after all, the man who said, "You're a disease and I'm the cure" and "This is where the law stops and I start ... sucker!"
But it was a lesser-known Cobretti line -- "You're history!" -- that turned out to be the most prescient.

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Profile: Mixing it up with John Cena

John Cena's first film, "The Marine," was a throwback to 1980s action movies, with diabolical bad guys, minimal dialogue and two scenes where the World Wrestling Entertainment star dives headfirst out of thermonuclear-looking fireballs.

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Film: For Will Arnett, 'Monsters vs. Aliens' a source of pride

When it comes to his show-business career, Will Arnett can't make up his mind who he is.
"I'm split on this," says the actor best known for Fox's acclaimed comedy "Arrested Development." "For 15 years, I made my living as a voice-over guy. It's something I take a tremendous amount of pride in, and I still do."

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TV: Ready or not, the Osbournes are back

They're ba-aack.
Four years after their 2002-05 MTV series "The Osbournes" ended, the first family of celeb-reality TV returns to prime time with a Fox variety show of sorts.

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