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...biggest star was Elvis, who had "died" two year before WWN was born. The weekly ran frequent stories about the singer ("Painting of Elvis Weeps Real Tears"), but its greatest news coup, and its top-selling issue, was the one that announced Presley was alive in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hideout. WWN's explanation of his 1977 disappearance - what was reported as his death - was typically ingenious. Building on the fact that Elvis had a twin brother Jesse who died at birth, WWN claimed that Jesse had in fact survived, brain damaged and hidden away, and that when Jesse died...
...what's going on inside. In one such system, known as IRAS 4B, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers from the University of Rochester have detected a disk-shaped knot of material that will one day emerge as a suite of planets orbiting a young star...
...VALLEY OF ELAH Canadian Paul Haggis premiered Crash here in 2004. Later it won the Oscar for Best Picture. His new one details the search for a vanished Iraq war vet by his parents and a detective. Oscar winners Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron star...
MICHAEL CLAYTON George Clooney lends his old-time movie-star aura to the role of a "fixer" getting clients out of trouble in a large law firm. Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton co-star in this exposé of corporate chicanery...
...audience's feeling about a film at Toronto can become infectious, creating a festival fever and inducing the captive Hollywood press corps to spread the word. "It's an amazing platform," says Ray. A star who works the Toronto party circuit, as Jamie Foxx did tirelessly in 2004 for Ray and as Penélope Cruz did last year for Volver, gets favorable media coverage simply by being available and photogenic. Even a screw-up, like the broken projector at last year's midnight Borat screening, can be a buzz-builder if the celeb plays it right. Sacha Baron Cohen...