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With the hot weather outside, it's a good time to get

outside in the evening - or revel in air conditioning - and

watch some good movies. Sure, you can always go to the

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Actor Broadbent joins cast of new ‘Indiana Jones’ film

Jim Broadbent is joining Indiana Jones on his latest adventure.

The Academy Award-winning actor has joined the cast of the fourth installment in the “Indiana Jones” series, according to an announcement posted last week on Lucasfilm Ltd.’s “Indiana Jones” Web site.

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Second place award won for controversial “Fourth Avenue Daredevils” photoSCOTT BRAND/The Evening NewsSAULT STE. MARIE - A $25 cash prize and a second place award were delivered to Photographer Tony Gilbert of The Evening News early this week for a picture - Fourth Avenue Daredevils - which initially brought a firestorm of criticism in the form of calls and letters back in April.Gilbert, acting on a tip, arrived on the evening of April 17 to find Zach Horton us...

There were few words of congratulations for the veteran photographer in the days that followed. Many local readers called to complain the picture portrayed unsafe activities citing the unhelmeted operator and the potential danger to the half-dozen participants who were positioned beneath the young daredevil. Letters from as far away as Florida also chastised the photographer for essentially “glamorizing” this activity.The most controversial photograph of Gilbert's career, spannin...

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Paintings by Wilmington artist John Camp, a 1979 WC graduate, will be on exhibit through Aug. 3 in Wilmington College's Harcum Art Gallery. Normal gallery hours are weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and by special appointment. Hal Shunk, professor of art, is coordinating the gallery exhibit.

The exhibit celebrates the 30th anniversary of when Camp

started painting with oils and watercolors in 1977 as a student at Wilmington College. Prior to that year his medium of choice was drawing.

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Q: I am looking for a movie made about Toulouse-Lautrec the painter. I'm almost 80, so I know it (came out) years ago.

A: I believe you are thinking of director John Huston's 1952 movie "Moulin Rouge," which offers a fictionalized take on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the crippled painter who made a splash with stylized posters he created for the Paris nightclub of the title.

Jose Ferrer earned a best-actor Oscar nomination for portraying both Toulouse-Lautrec and his father, but the award went to Gary Cooper for "High Noon." "Moulin Rouge" was up for seven Oscars in all, including best picture and best director for Huston, but it won only for art direction and costume design.

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