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Casting: Emma Thompson has joined the cast of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” playing divination professor Sibyll Trelawney.

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Recovering: Since the removal in late June of a tracheotomy tube, inserted while he battled meningitis and pneumonia, Luther Vandross is once again talking -- and singing, People magazine reports. Vandross, 52, is undergoing therapy at a New Jersey rehabilitation center, the magazine says in its Oct. 20 issue.