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The Irish actor Milo O'Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," an evil scientist in "Barbarella" and a Supreme Court justice on "The West Wing," has died in New York City. He was 86.

New York is a safer, less fearful place than it was in 1990, when murders hit an all-time high, race relations were raw and the city felt under siege from drug dealers and gangs on "wilding" sprees. But one major piece of unfinished business from back then still hangs over the city and its legal system: the Central Park jogger case.

Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. has traveled to Beijing to promote "Iron Man 3," which was filmed partly in China and features well-known Chinese actors.

Roger Ebert was a hot trend on Google's top 10 trends earlier this week.

Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania.

Roger Ebert started out as an old-school newspaper man, the kind that has all but vanished: a fierce competitor who spent the day trying to scoop the competition and the night bellied up to the bar swapping stories.

Roger Ebert was an old-school newspaper writer - a fierce competitor by day and a hard-drinking storyteller by night.

Halle Berry is pregnant.

It's hard to sum up one man's achievements in any article or post. It's even harder if that man is Roger Ebert, who in no particular order was critic, TV personality, social-media guru, blogger, scholar, screenwriter and advocate.

Robert Redford delivers one last lecture on '60s idealism and passes another baton to Shia LaBeouf in "The Company You Keep," an engrossing thriller about the last anti-Vietnam War radicals still underground.

A construction magnate's preppy son is forced to drive one of Mexico City's battered green buses, while his spoiled sister waits tables at a cantina in a miniskirt and non-designer shoes. Their credit cards have been canceled, their BMWs and mansion seized.

LOS ANGELES - Since the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences sent out a "Save the Date" notice last week inviting its entire 6,000-person membership to an unprecedented general meeting, Hollywood has been buzzing about just what would be on the agenda.

The heist picture gets a few Danny Boyle head-game twists with "Trance," a movie about memory, the mind and manipulating both to find some "lost" stolen art.

NEW YORK - For all its perks, being a popular young actor like Shia LaBeouf in today's media climate can come with some intense pressures.

British director Danny Boyle calls his new R-rated thriller "Trance" the "mad bad relative" of the crowd-pleasing opening ceremony he produced for the Olympics last summer. And he admits "Trance" served as sort of an exorcism that helped him get in touch with his dark side while working on the summer spectacular.

It seems like only yesterday - in fact, it was only Wednesday - that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer that had re-invaded his body. Now he is dead, and that collapsed time frame somehow seems only fitting.

"The Place Beyond the Pines" tells three overlapping stories that center on the legacies - voluntary or not - fathers leave their sons, and the split-second decisions that can shape them. The title is the English translation of the Mohawk word for the film's setting, Schenectady. It's a fitting romanticizing of reality for the film's characters, who all hope for something better than what they have.

Roger Ebert reviewed thousands of films over the years, influencing moviegoers across the country with his uncomplicated, yet intelligent reviews that were breezy and often quotable. Along with fellow film critic Gene Siskel, Ebert, who died on Thursday at the age of 70, created and made famous the thumbs-up, thumbs-down style of reviews. Here are excerpts of some of his memorable reviews for both film classics as well as movie duds.

Will you enjoy the "Evil Dead" remake? If you have fond memories of the original, probably not. If you would like to see the movie equivalent of an explosion in a tomato-soup factory, however, this is the film for you.

The death of film critic Roger Ebert elicits wide reaction from directors, actors, fellow critics and others:

Sam Raimi's 1981 cult indie-horror classic "The Evil Dead" and its smarter, cooler followup, "Evil Dead II" from 1987, are the Rosetta Stone for the hack-and-splatter crowd.

Ten things to remember about acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert, who died on Thursday:

Ten things to remember about acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert, who died on Thursday:

There was the prodigious mind, of course: the voluminous knowledge of film and the incisive way he could cut to the heart of what made a movie work, or not.

The death of film critic Roger Ebert elicits wide reaction from directors, actors, fellow critics and others:

Roger Ebert reviewed thousands of films over the years, influencing moviegoers across the country with his uncomplicated, yet intelligent reviews that were breezy and often quotable. Along with fellow film critic Gene Siskel, Ebert, who died on Thursday at the age of 70, created and made famous the thumbs-up, thumbs-down style of reviews. Here are excerpts of some of his memorable reviews for both film classics as well as movie duds.

Queen Elizabeth II has received an honorary British Academy award in recognition of her support of British film and television.

"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" could be demonized by "Evil Dead" at the box office this weekend as the horror film aims to possess No. 1.

Roger Ebert could be tough on filmmakers, but unlike many critics, he earned their respect.

ADMISSION 2 1/2 stars. Tina Fey stars as a Princeton admissions officer, Paul Rudd is a hippe-dippie progressive school head lobbying for one of his students, in this odd mix of romantic comedy, improbable soap and Ivy League satire. 1 hr. 57 PG-13 (sex, profanity, adult themes) - Steven Rea