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Emmy had a split personality this year. Television’s annual awards show honored hot new broadcast comedies “Modern Family” and “Glee,” while sticking with more familiar favorites from cable in drama.

“Modern Family” won the Emmy for best comedy in its rookie season. The sweetly uproarious sitcom knit together a gay couple and their adopted daughter, a more traditional bumbling dad and his uptight wife, and a world-weary patriarch with his hot young Latin wife — and became an instant favorite on ABC.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963’s “Hud” and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84.

Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard, said longtime friend Bud Albers of Knoxville.

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(EW.com) — While promoting her new fall series “Raising Hope” at the Televisions Critics Association gathering in L.A., co-star Cloris Leachman was asked about the current adulation Betty White is enjoying. “I’m so sick of Betty White,” Leachman snapped, to laughs and a few gasps. “Never liked her.”

Leachman was kidding, of course. “We’re co-starring in a new movie, called ‘You Again,’” she noted, softening her tone.

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(CNN) — You will need more than a pinch of salt to swallow the incredible twists and turns of Angelina Jolie’s new spy thriller, but it’s a kick just trying to keep pace with it.

When the feds exposed the Russian spy ring last month, director Phillip Noyce must have felt like Christmas came early.

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(PEOPLE.com) — You’ve seen him on-screen in dozens of movies, but what’s Boston-native Ben Affleck like when the cameras aren’t rolling?

“He’s kind of what you expect,” Rebecca Hall, his costar in his upcoming film, “The Town,” tells “W” magazine in its August issue. “He’s incredibly smart; he’s good fun. It’s got to be odd being that famous, especially in Boston, where he can’t walk a block without having to put his hood up.”

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Actress Lindsay Lohan was ordered Tuesday to serve 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation.

The judge also ordered Lohan to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab program after her jail term is completed.

The actress must begin serving her sentence on July 20, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel said.

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Andrew Garfield has been cast as Peter Parker in Sony’s “Spider-Man” reboot, the studio announced via press release on Thursday.

Sony managed to keep secret one of the most sought-after scoops in Hollywood history.

Garfield only learned late this afternoon that he’s been chosen to play Peter Parker.

He was just presented to the international press in Cancun, Mexico who had gathered to see previews of Sony’s upcoming movies, a spokesman from Sony told TheWrap.

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LOS ANGELES — Welcome back, Woody and Buzz.

After a decade-plus absence from theaters, the animated heroes of “Toy Story 3″ sold $153.8 million worth of tickets during their opening weekend at the worldwide box office, according to estimates issued Sunday by distributor Walt Disney Co.

Moviegoers in the United States and Canada accounted for $109 million, a new opening record for a film produced by Disney’s Pixar Animation unit. The old mark of $70.5 million was set by “The Incredibles” in May 2004.

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If you like animated features and movies about hair – the planets are about to align for you!

Walt Disney Pictures’ 50th full-length animated feature, “Tangled”, is headed to the big screen this November. “Chuck’s” Zachary Levi lends his voice to the kingdom’s most wanted — and most charming — bandit Flynn Rider.

While hiding out in a tower after his latest heist, Flynn bumps into Rapunzel, voiced by Mandy Moore, a feisty teen with 70 feet of golden hair who’s looking for her ticket out of the tower where she’s been locked away for years.

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The A-Team” is ready for action. But this one isn’t comprised of George Peppard, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict and Mr. T, but rather boasts a retooled roster featuring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.

The original “A-Team” kicked its first butt in 1983, but alas, that was a lot of spent ammo ago. With the release of the June 11 big-screen movie, a new audience is being introduced to the gang.

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