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By Alicia Avila and Colin Sims LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hilary Swank has carved out a career with original roles in Hollywood, like a transgender man in “Boys Don’t Cry” and an ambitious boxer in “Million Dollar Baby,” receiving two Oscars for best actress for her derring-do. Now the 40-year-old actress turns the female stereotype of the western genre on its head in “The Homesman,” directed and co-written by fellow Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, also her co-star. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, played a role in some of the most consequential combat missions of the post-9/11 era, including three depicted in Hollywood movies. And now he’s telling the world about them.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — About halfway through the first televised Hollywood Film Awards, Chris Rock took the stage to accept a trophy for his film “Top Five.” ”Wow, do you feel the excitement in the room?” he asked facetiously, eliciting the first real laughter of the night from an otherwise restrained audience.

By Alexei Oreskovic, Sarah McBride and Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced into a Silicon Valley red-carpet event on Sunday. He’d left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product — he recently wore his pair to the beach. …