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Show Bits brings you the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
Show Bits brings you the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
Just like the superheroes they played in the movie, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson all huddled together back stage to get a plan together and of course joke around.

Hollywood might be a liberal town, but there are plenty of celebrities who own guns — and they're not afraid to use them.
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" cooked up $19 million in its opening weekend.
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" cooked up $19 million in its opening weekend.
Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 schedule (release dates are subject to change):
More A-listers have signed on to support the third Stand Up to Cancer telethon.

First lady Michelle Obama got rave reviews for the custom-made Tracy Reese pink-and-copper dress she wore while giving a tribute to her husband at the Democratic National Convention.
"The Bourne Legacy" has unleashed a new box-office hero.
"The Dark Knight Rises" has finally fallen out of first-place at the weekend box office.
"The Bourne Legacy" is a work of fiction, but the scientific, political and corporate partnerships it depicts are very real.

There's not much to learn about Aaron Cross, the biologically enhanced special agent at the center of "The Bourne Legacy." As played by Jeremy Renner, he's alternately driven and distracted, a weapon that looks like a person yet lacks anything resembling a personality.
"The Avengers" has extended its box-office superpowers with a record $207.4 million opening weekend domestically, an even bigger start than originally projected.
Hulk, smash.
"I own guns and I don't think guns kill people, I think people kill people," Mr. Renner said recently.
— and "The Avengers" star Jeremy Renner admit to owning firearms.