By The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) – Irwin Winkler and Sydney Pollack are among the movie veterans who will sit down to discuss their work during the Tribeca Film Festival.

Winkler produced “Rocky” (1976), winner of the Academy Award for best picture, and was nominated for best-picture Oscars for “Raging Bull,” “The Right Stuff” and “GoodFellas.” He’s also directed movies including “Life as a House” and “De-Lovely.” He’ll be talking about how to make a political thriller.

Pollack directed “The Interpreter,” the festival’s opening-night film starring Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman. He won best picture and directing Oscars for “Out of Africa” (1985) and received nominations for “Tootsie” and “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” – which is another film Winkler produced.

Also on the schedule is Jon Brion, who has composed the score for films including “Magnolia” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” talking about the use of music in movies.

Now in its fourth year, the Tribeca Film Festival runs April 19-May 1 at locations throughout lower Manhattan. More than 150 screenings are planned, as well as outdoor events including a family street fair. The festival was created to help downtown Manhattan rebound economically from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Celine Dion reminds fans that she’s a wife, mother – and confident woman – with her new perfume, Belong.

“In Belong, Celine reveals a little bit more of the woman Coty has come to know behind the scenes,” Eric Thoreux, president, Coty Beauty Americas, said in a recent statement.

“The new fragrance reflects where Celine is right now in her life – enjoying her family when she is out of the spotlight.”

Dion was involved in every aspect of the development of Belong, which has a modern floral Oriental scent, including the design of the bottle, a pentagon shape that represents her lucky number five.

“This fragrance is about celebrating life,” Dion said. “It’s about a woman’s inner beauty, her confidence, her passion and her sensuality. It’s the way I like to feel about myself.”

In 2003, Dion began a three-year gig at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The 36-year-old singer and her husband, Rene Angelil, have a son, Rene-Charles, who was born in 2001.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The way President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, would carry on about their love for each other, one might have gotten the impression their romance was carved in stone – and it turns out it was.

A part-time estate liquidation consultant who was looking for anything the Reagans might have left behind at a Pacific Palisades home they lived in 50 years ago recently uncovered a slab of concrete. Carved into it was a heart and the initials ND (for Mrs. Reagan’s maiden name, Nancy Davis) and RR.

“I got a hose and washed it off and said, “Oh my goodness,”‘ recalled Terre Hirsch.

Instead of rushing to eBay with his treasure, he decided to turn it over to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The former first lady, whose husband died last year, couldn’t be happier.

“Mrs. Reagan remembers well the day her husband drew a heart with their initials inside in the concrete patio of their home,” the former first lady’s office said in a recent statement.

“In a time when so many people are motivated by financial gain, she was moved and very grateful that Mr. Hirsch offered the piece to her,” the statement added.

The slab is expected to go on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley this fall.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Richard Pryor’s daughter is offering a peek at what it was like to grow up with her famous father.

In her show “Fried Chicken & Latkes,” Rain Pryor discusses seeing cocaine, prostitutes and affluence while visiting her dad. She narrates her story, acts out the parts of other people and sings a few songs.

“My dad has always been one to put his life right out there for you to look at. I took that approach because I saw how well audiences respond to it. I try to make you laugh at life,” she told the Philadelphia Inquirer in Sunday’s editions.

The show is playing at the Painted Bride Art Center Thursday through Saturday.

Pryor is the child of a brief marriage between the comedian and a Jewish woman, Shelley Bonus, who was an aspiring actress working as a go-go dancer when she met Pryor in the late 1960s.

Her mother struggled to give her daughter a traditional middle-class upbringing in a modest Beverly Hills, Calif., apartment. But when Pryor visited her well-off father on the other side of town, she was exposed to a dysfunctional lifestyle in a servant-staffed house.

Even though Pryor mimics her father, she has no intention of trying to follow his comedic path. “I decided I’m going to fill my own shoes,” she said. “I’m not going to do his comedy.”

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