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A lawsuit has been filed in Manhattan federal court.

Jimmy Carter,the former US President and his publisher Simon & Schuster are facing a lawsuit over Carters 2006 book

Palestine: Peace,Not Apartheid. A lawsuit has been filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. David Schoen,a Montgomery,Ala.,attorney who filed the suit,said by telephone that the book was falsely marketed as an accurate account of peace negotiations in the Middle East. You cannot market it as the absolute truth on something when its not, he said. The book became a target of criticism from the moment it was published because of the use of the word apartheid in the title.

Christopher Nolans Inception was the big winner at the Visual Effects Society on Tuesday. His film picked up all four prizes for which it was nominatedOutstanding Visual Effects in a Visual-Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture; Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture; Outstanding Models & Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture and Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture and Nolan himself was honoured with the inaugural visionary award. Actually,this is probably the real comfort to Nolan: he may have been snubbed for a best director Oscar nomination,but he is still among the top five earners in Hollywood in 2010,according to Vanity Fair.

Woody Allens latest film,Midnight in Paris,will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 11,the events organisers said on Wednesday. The film,the 41st feature-length work that Allen has directed,is a romantic comedy whose cast includes Owen Wilson,Rachel McAdams,Marion Cotillard,Kathy Bates and Adrien Brody,though one cast member,Carla Bruni-Sarkozy,has received a bit more attention than the others. The film will be released in France on the same day it makes its debut at Cannes,though an American release date has not yet been announced. The full Cannes Film Festival runs through May 22.