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"Dark Knight" sets opening day box office record

LOS ANGELES - The new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," raked in $66.4 million in its opening day to set the single-day box office record, according to its distributor Warner Bros. The Friday tally bests the $59.8 million set by "Spider-Man 3" at its opening last year.

Jolie leaves hospital after giving birth

NICE, France - Angelina Jolie has left the French hospital where she gave birth to twins last week, the hospital said on Saturday. "Mrs Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Foundation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19. The mother and her babies are doing very well," the Lenval hospital in the southern French city of Nice said in a statement on its website.

Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare

SAO PAULO - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this week started shooting the TV series "Sound and Fury," about a Shakespearean theater group in crisis, and his next movie will be a loose adaptation of the playwright's comedy "Love's Labour's Lost."

Music retailer thrives serving captive audience

NEW YORK - As music retailers struggle to stay in business, a Los Angeles firm is doing nicely targeting a demographic that gets bigger every year -- prisoners. More than 2.3 million people were locked up in federal, state or local systems at midyear 2007, according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, and they want their Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd just like everyone else.

"Hot" Mexican musical genre picks up steam in U.S.

MIAMI - Mexico's music from the hotlands -- better-known by its Spanish term, "musica de tierra caliente" -- has long played second fiddle to its more popular cousin, duranguense. But in the last several months, tierra caliente seems to have found its groove, with a new generation of acts increasingly populating the Billboard sales and airplay charts.

Brazilian police recover Picasso print, nab suspect

SAO PAULO - Police recovered a Pablo Picasso print and arrested one person in connection with an armed robbery at Sao Paulo's Pinacoteca Museum last month, local media reported on Saturday. The print, Picasso's "The Painter and the Model" from 1963, was one of four works taken in broad daylight on June 12, the official Agencia Brasil government news agency said.

UK pop star enjoys new life as hit songwriter

NEW YORK - UK Singer/songwriter Cathy Dennis stormed America at the beginning of the '90s with top 10 hits "C'mon and Get My Love," "Just Another Dream," "Touch Me (All Night Long)" and "Too Many Walls," and spent 67 weeks on the Billboard 200 with her debut album "Move to This." After her third album in 1996, she launched a second career writing tunes for the likes of the Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Celine Dion, among others.

Architectural photographer enjoys revival at 97

LOS ANGELES - Julius Shulman took a photograph in 1960 that made millions dream of a perfect life: two women seated in a glass house seemingly suspended in mid air as the twinkling lights of Los Angeles beckon below. Nearly 50 years after the famous photo of Case Study House #22, the man many consider the finest architectural photographer in history finds himself a cult figure for a new generation that covets the minimalist mid-century modern architecture he took around the world.

Enrique Iglesias unveils bold arena tour

MIAMI - Co-headliners of different genres are no longer an oddity in the U.S. Latin market. Nonetheless, the Kings tour, which kicks off September 4, stands out for its daring pairing of Spanish pop star Enrique Iglesias and urban/bachata group Aventura. Its results will be closely watched by a Latin touring industry where probably fewer than 20 acts can consistently embark on large arena tours.

Salma Hayek, Pinault cancel engagement

LOS ANGELES - Actress Salma Hayek has called off her engagement to Francois-Henri Pinault, a French businessman and father of her daughter, a representative for Hayek said on Friday. "We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault has been canceled. There will be no further comment," Cari Ross, Hayek's spokeswoman, said in a statement.

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