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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Are movies your way of escaping the daily grind? You’re not alone, with a Reuters/Ipsos poll finding more than one in four people across the globe go to the cinema often to suspend reality, if only for a few hours.

Over the years, “American Idol” has been a lot of things: a launching pad for undiscovered talent, fodder for national conversation and even a blending of politics and pop culture (remember the “red state-blue state” debate last season during the Kris Allen-Adam Lambert showdown?).

For the first time in almost 70 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made room for 10 nominees for best picture.

A private funeral will be held Monday in Utah for Michael Bryan, the troubled son of Marie Osmond, the entertainer’s rep, Alan Nierob, confirms.

Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Gayheart are new parents to a baby girl.

The irony of calling a movie about compromised gentlemen of the New York City Police Department “Brooklyn’s Finest” ain’t exactly what you’d call subtle.

Tim Burton goes through the looking glass: This is what CGI was invented for, surely?

“Alice in Wonderland” — with its hat-wearing madmen, anxious rabbits and disturbing, smiling cats — would seem to have filmmaker Tim Burton’s name written all over it.

When Henry Engelhardt III is driving, an odd thought will sometimes pop into his head.