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Reporter Missy Shelton traveled to Galena, Kan., with her 3-year-old son, Zeke, to catch a glimpse of the real Mater.

Cinematographer Richard P. Crudo, producer Gale Anne Hurd, composer David Newman and film editor Michael Tronick make up this year’s first-time electees to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors. In addition, seven incumbents were reelected and three other motion picture professionals will return to the Board after a time away.

While most of Bob And The Monster is a straightforward documentary, it employs a couple of stop-motion animation sequences.

Elmo and Kevin Clash, photographed on the Sesame Street set in 2006.

Director Feng Xiaogang, whose 2010 film Aftershock is China's highest-grossing Chinese-made film of all time, arrives at the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival. At left is his wife Xu Fan, who starred in Aftershock.

The United Nations intellectual property agency today announced a project to help musical artists in 11 West African countries to get paid for their work through a single, standardized registration system.

Hollywood's most beautiful actress Elizabeth Banks plays District 12 chaperone Effie Trinket.

Wayne Blair

The Soumaya Museum in Mexico City was designed by Carlos Slim's son-in-law and houses Slim's collection of more than 65,000 pieces. It is dominated by works from European and Mexican artists.