This peaceful riverside enclave sparks to life during the weekly Thursday morning market, when you will hear vendors and shoppers trading the melodic sounds of Occitan (the original language of the region, spoken today by about 1.5 million people in southern France).

BBC: A road trip through provincial France

At the time, the nexus of countercultural life in Vancouver was a weekly called the Georgia Straight, and Watson soon began writing for it.

NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

"Night at the Museum" and "Real Steel" filmmaker Shawn Levy just signed on as producer, and now " 30 Rock's" Tina Fey is in talks to help him bring the sparkly little girl to life, sources close to the project tell Entertainment Weekly.

CNN: Tina Fey may help produce 'Fancy Nancy' movie

Also in US Weekly's bottom five: an exclusive interview with Britney Spears on her "new life" and reality-TV star Bethenny Frankel on overcoming an eating disorder.

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