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Tearful Colin Firth awarded Hollywood star
Colin Firth was moved to tears as he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Darren Aronofsky: Hollywood's most ambitious director
Plagued by outrageous misfortune in his early career, his latest film is a hot favourite for the Oscars. Has he struck it lucky at last?
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Fincher's English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Rooney Mara will star as computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, in David
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Diary: The girl with the star role
So we now have the first pictures of 25-year-old Rooney Mara in the role of the year: the goth bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, in David Fincher's English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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