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The question had to be asked: what the hell is a dernsie ? Veteran actor Bruce Dern dropped the word during a Cannes press conference for Alexander Payne's Nebraska , proclaiming it the first movie he has ever shot without "dernsies."

Film and TV actor Dermot Mulroney will join his mother, local resident and actress Ellen Mulroney, in a one-night reading of a new short play called "Peter Pan's Mother" July 15 as a benefit for Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster.

You might think it's a fairly big deal when a guy from Omaha's movie happens to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Jury president Steven Spielberg and jurors Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz had plenty of great performances to mull during the festival, which ended Sunday.

Europeans created America by landing on the East Coast and moving West, in the process confecting the nation's near-Biblical legend of Manifest Destiny.

From the rumoured vantage point of a luxury yacht, Spielberg and his fellow Cannes judges may have a different perspective to critics on the pick of this year's offerings - not least Nebraska Alternative view a The thoughts of Steven Spielberg, president of this year's Cannes film festival, may not chime with those of critics.

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age.

May 22--CANNES, France -- Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two.