Blending in on campus reportedly not so easy for ‘Potter’ star

Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea. The actress, best known for her role as Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” films, showed up last week at the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, where new students were treated to orientation activities before the official start of classes on Wednesday

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The Scene: The Eternal City challenges ‘Angels’

It’s been three years to the month since Dan Brown’s book "The Da Vinci Code" hit theater screens, becoming a worldwide blockbuster. Now superstar Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are back with another of Brown’s best-sellers, “Angels & Demons.” Unlike the previous effort in which the Oscar-winning duo went on a shooting spree across several European countries, the new film takes place in just one locale, Rome

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Nintendo DSi Game Player

During the summer of my 13th year, my father took me to Japan as a bar mitzvah present. One night in Osaka, we met one of his Japanese business partners at a restaurant, where I was thrilled to learn two geisha awaited us. But my excitement quickly turned to disappointment: the geisha were hardly the sexpots I had envisioned; they were very old, at least 30, and their idea of a good time was getting everyone to play a variety of childish games involving twisted paper napkins

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