AP - As she inspected the stage where she would later address the Democratic National Convention, a look of recognition flickered across Hillary Rodham Clinton’s face when she peered out to see who had asked how she was.

Reuters - In “The Duchess,”
actress Keira Knightley’s latest period picture, a lavish
melodrama of aristocratic foolishness and betrayal is designed
around the colorful though not always happy life of an 18th
century socialite.

Reuters - The current youth
generation certainly is entitled to its own version of
“National Lampoon’s Animal House,” but “College” isn’t it.

Reuters - After switching things
up with “The Pacifier” and “Find Me Guilty,” Vin Diesel returns
to the action arena with “Babylon A.D.,” a towering heap of
nihilistic nonsense that plays like a cornball “Children of
God.”

Reuters - “The Dark Knight” led
the foreign box office for a third consecutive weekend — and
fourth overall — as its international sales hit $417 million.

Reuters - The title is something
of a misnomer. “Disaster Movie,” from the people who helped to
concoct “Scary Movie,” “Date Movie” and “Meet the Spartans,”
sounds as if it is going to send up such opuses as “The
Poseidon Adventure” and “Earthquake.”

AP - Television networks rapidly shifted focus and personnel away from the Republican national convention to Gulf Coast communities in the path of Hurricane Gustav on Sunday, wondering how much of their political planning will be for naught.

Bruce Springsteen ended his world tour over the weekend, playing more than 30 songs over 3½ hours Saturday night on Milwaukee’s lakefront for Harley-Davidson’s 105th anniversary celebration, and making few comments between songs.

Reuters - Action film parody “Tropic Thunder”
clung to the top spot at the North American box office for a
third straight week as the summer moviegoing season sputtered
to a lackluster close, Hollywood studios reported on Sunday.

“The Dark Knight” on Sunday became the second movie in Hollywood history to top $500 million at the domestic box office, raising its total to $502.4 million, according to estimates from distributor Warner Bros.