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• For Danny Boyle and company, much more than '127 Hours' of toil
• 'Fair Game' star Naomi Watts really knows her character, Valerie Plame
• The Monitor: 'Eastbound & Down'
• Celine Dion gives birth to twin boys
• Brand, Perry wed at traditional Hindu ceremony in wildlife resort in northwest India
• Cultural Exchange: China's surprising Bronze Age mummies
• Indie Focus: 'Four Lions'
• New on DVD: 'Winter's Bone'
• The Sunday Conversation: Michael J. Fox

For Danny Boyle and company, much more than '127 Hours' of toil Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT The intense drama, focused entirely on trapped hiker Aron Ralston's will to escape, required supreme ingenuity and physical hardiness from the director, his crew and actor James Franco. Danny Boyle could barely be heard over the low-flying helicopter. "It's like 'Apocalypse Now,'" he yelled as he fastened his helmet and tightened a climbing harness around his waist, preparing to descend into a narrow canyon.

'Fair Game' star Naomi Watts really knows her character, Valerie Plame Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT The Oscar-nominated actress and the former spy got together before shooting began and have kept up a rapport. Reporting from New York — To tell the big-screen tale of Valerie Plame, a real-life CIA spy whose covert identity was blown by the White House, director Doug Liman needed a special kind of actress: someone who could build an emotional wall around herself and still convey "a sense that there's a good person inside her."

The Monitor: 'Eastbound & Down' Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Danny McBride plays Kenny Powers well, but the show just isn't funny. So the options are these: You laugh with Kenny Powers, you laugh at Kenny Powers, you laugh at yourself for not laughing at Kenny Powers, you laugh at everyone else who does laugh at Kenny Powers.

Celine Dion gives birth to twin boys Posted: 23 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Celine Dion has given birth to twin boys, finally realizing her dream of being a mother again after a long struggle to become pregnant. NEW YORK (AP) - Celine Dion has given birth to twin boys, finally realizing her dream of being a mother again after a long struggle to become pregnant.

Brand, Perry wed at traditional Hindu ceremony in wildlife resort in northwest India Posted: 23 Oct 2010 02:23 PM PDT RANTHAMBHORE NATIONAL PARK, India (AP) — British comedian Russell Brand and American pop singer Katy Perry were married Saturday in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony at a luxury resort in a tiger reserve in northwestern India, an official said.

Cultural Exchange: China's surprising Bronze Age mummies Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT The most remarkable thing about the 'Beauty of Loulan' and the rest? They appear to be of ancient Caucasians. They were found in an area of China that was a crossroads between Asia and Europe. Reporting from Urumqi, China —

Indie Focus: 'Four Lions' Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT British comedian Chris Morris is no stranger to ruffling feathers, but he says his black comedy about a bumbling cell of jihadists shouldn't be controversial. At a glance, "Four Lions," the debut feature from director and co-writer Chris Morris that first played at the Sundance Film Festival in January, seems certain to upset people on all points of the cultural and political spectrum: It's a dark comedy about a cell of British would-be jihadists who bumble through the planning of a suicide bomb plot.

New on DVD: 'Winter's Bone' Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT 'Winter's Bone,' 'The Girl Who Played With Fire,' 'A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism,' 'Sex and the City 2' and 'You Don't Know Jack.' Also out this week: "The Girl Who Played With Fire," "A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism," "Sex and the City 2" and "You Don't Know Jack."

The Sunday Conversation: Michael J. Fox Posted: 24 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT On 'Back to the Future's' 25th anniversary, his disease and aging. Michael J. Fox, 49, is back yet again as time traveler Marty McFly in the 25th-anniversary DVD and Blu-ray release of the "Back to the Future" trilogy. He's also busy raising four kids in New York with wife Tracy Pollan and serving as "head cheerleader" of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.

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