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AP - The continent-hopping, Oscar-nominated "Babel" has made subtitles sexy once again for American moviegoers. In Switzerland, they never went out of style.

AP - Harry Potter is all grown up. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's best-sellers, sheds his magician's robes — and everything else — for his West End stage debut as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."

E! Online - Eddie Murphy is a loser. Whether or not he's a sore one is still anyone's call.

E! Online - Don't count on Naomi Watts appearing as the face of Escada anytime soon.

E! Online - Martin Scorsese has finally found a winning formula—and it seems he plans on sticking with it.

Reuters - Blending noirish mystery and big questions about fate in an evocative Southwestern landscape, "First Snow" is a first-rate psychological thriller.

Reuters - Leonardo DiCaprio is reuniting with the Oscar-winning writer of "The Departed," William Monahan, to star in another Hong Kong remake, a thriller titled "Confessions of Pain."

Reuters - An Oscarcast first: the award show host (or in this case hostess) running a vacuum cleaner in the audience. As amusing as it was, DeGenerously speaking, it did take the glamour of the Oscars down a notch or two.

Reuters - "Titanic" director James Cameron presented on Monday what he said was evidence the tomb of Jesus had been uncovered, but some scholars dismissed it as a publicity stunt.

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AP - The pushy orchestra music that elbows Oscar winners off the stage has long been a trademark of Academy Awards speeches — and no one has ever used it better than Al Gore.

Reuters - Hollywood director James Cameron displayed on Monday artifacts that he said might have come from the tomb of Jesus, which once contained his remains, those of Mary Magdalene, and possibly their son, Judah.

AP - David Fincher is a director of estimable talents. He's technically imaginative with a great eye for detail and a feel for mood. In films like "Se7en," "Fight Club" and "Panic Room," he sets a scene, sucks you in and shows you over and over that you're in the hands of a visual master. More Info...  

Reuters - The success of Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" at the Oscars caused some Hollywood hand-wringing on Monday over whether months of costly Oscar campaigning truly pays off.

AP - Helen Mirren, who won the best actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen," may be invited to tea, Buckingham Palace said Monday.

AP - Selected home-video releases: More Info...  

AP - Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics.

AP - If anyone needed definitive proof that Hollywood has gone international, the Academy Awards provided it.

AP - Norway celebrated Torill Kove's Oscar victory for her animated short film "The Danish Poet," the story of a young poet who travels to Norway to find inspiration by meeting Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset.

E! Online - Helen Mirren might get the chance to thank her muse in person.

E! Online - Bad reviews, bad press and bad box office—these are the usual movie-star woes.