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Mariah Carey to Direct Holiday Film in Cincinnati

A Cincinnati film commission has announced that singer and actress Mariah Carey will be filming a Christmas movie in the region.

WCPO-TV (http://bit.ly/1OTRcDI ) reports the Greater Cincinnati Film Commission said Tuesday the singer and actress is set to star in "Melody & Mistletoe" in Cincinnati starting in October.

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Rosie Assoulin, the Rising Star in New York Fashion

In just two short years, rising New York designer Rosie Assoulin has established her own label and won plaudits for sophisticated yet sensuous clothes that sacrifice nothing to comfort.

The 30-year-old young mother from Brooklyn, who spent just months at formal fashion school, first started experimenting with fabric and design on her grandmother's sewing machine at the tender age of 13.

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Toronto Film Festival Cranks it Up with Chet Baker, Keith Richards

Country music star Hank Williams and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker biopics, as well as a new Keith Richards documentary headlined at the Toronto film festival Sunday.

Hoping to follow in the footsteps of Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line," a whopping eight music biopics and docs were scheduled for release in Toronto this week.

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Georgia's Betty Cantrell Wins Miss America Pageant

Betty Cantrell, representing the southern U.S. state of Georgia, was crowned Miss America 2016 late Sunday.

Cantrell, overcome by emotion, received the crown from last year's winner, Kira Kazantsev of New York, then waved to the tune of the pageant's theme song "There she is, Miss America."

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'Game of Thrones' Reigns at Creative Arts Emmy Awards

"Game Of Thrones" is the Emmy Awards front-runner after winning a leading eight technical achievement awards.

The HBO fantasy saga was honored at Saturday's creative arts Emmys, the precursor to the main Sept. 20 ceremony, in categories including special visual effects and casting.

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Film about U.S. Home Foreclosures Wins at French Festival

A film about the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, "99 Homes" by Ramin Bahrani, was awarded the Grand Prize at France's Deauville American Film Festival in Normandy on Saturday. 

Part social drama, part thriller, the film centers on a young father who is evicted from his home after it is foreclosed and then agrees to work for the very real estate broker responsible for his troubles.

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'The Martian' Blasts Off at Toronto Film Festival

"The Martian" has landed.

The Ridley Scott, Matt Damon 3-D space adventure premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, where critics and audiences cheered Scott's latest venture into science fiction as a return to form for the director. "The Martian," adapted from the best-selling Andy Weir novel, stars Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars by his crew.

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Two Killed as Tom Cruise Movie Crew Plane Crashes in Colombia

Two people died when a plane carrying crew members from a film starring Tom Cruise crashed in Colombia, aviation authorities and Universal Pictures said.

The crew had just wrapped up production on the upcoming Doug Liman film "Mena," when it went down on Friday while returning to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin.

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Michael Moore Invades Toronto Film Festival

Provocateur Michael Moore is back after a six-year absence with a new documentary film, "Where to Invade Next," pitching once again socialist ideals put to the test abroad to his fellow countrymen.

The film premiered at the Toronto film festival.

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Gere, Quiet and Moving in Portrait of a Homeless Man

"Spare change? Any spare change?" The man holding the cup in the street looks, from a distance, like just some guy in a wool cap, formless parka and rumpled pants.

Only this is Richard Gere, and if you looked a little closer, you'd recognize those silver-haired good looks and that chiseled face. And those people on the streets in "Time Out of Mind" are actual New Yorkers who often walked by the movie star, oblivious, as director Oren Moverman was shooting, proving — if it needed to be proven — that we don't really look at homeless people among us, even if we're handing them a few quarters.

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