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In this Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 file photo, Richard Linklater arrives at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif.
In this Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 file photo, Richard Linklater arrives at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif.

After visiting a camp for Syrian refugees in southeastern Turkey on Saturday, actress Angelina Jolie said the world is living through an era of mass displacement.

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U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, listens to a question during a news conference following a visit to the Midyat refugee camp in Mardin, southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, Saturday, June 20, 2015.

Jolie, reading from a prepared speech alongside United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees Antonio Guterres, told journalists that “never before have so many people been dispossessed or stripped of their human rights.” Jolie’s visit is the latest in a series of visits to Turkey as part of her work as the U.N. refugee agency’s special envoy. It is meant to draw attention to the plight of refugees, whose number has reached a record 60 million worldwide, according to the U.N. As numbers increase, many countries are scrambling to find ways to close their doors to the new arrivals. Hungary recently announced plans to build a 13-foot-high fence on the border with Serbia to stop the flow of refugees from Asia and Africa, and anti-immigrant sentiment has flared elsewhere in Europe. Jolie spoke of the problem in general terms. “People are running out of places to run to,” she said, emphasizing “the need to be open and tolerant to people … who may not be able to return home.” Turkey now officially hosts the world’s largest refugee community — about 1.6 million, according the latest U.N. figures.

Boyhood director Richard Linklater again has lost in a lawsuit against his insurance company over what he says was $500,000 in property and film memorabilia destroyed by Texas wildfires in 2011.

A Texas appeals court late last week upheld an earlier ruling against Linklater, who lost old scripts, videos and memorabilia from Dazed and Confused and his other films in the blaze. The Golden Globe winner had used a storage building in Bastrop County as a personal archive for his career. Truck Insurance Co. denied Linklater’s claim on the basis that the storage building was not covered by the filmmaker’s policy. The 2011 wildfires near Austin scorched more than 32,000 acres and destroyed more than 1,600 homes.

Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he sideswiped a truck while filming his latest movie in Massachusetts.

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Dwayne Johnson accepts the “Hero” award at the 2015 Spike TV Guy's Choice Awards at Sony Studios on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif.

The San Andreas action star took to Instagram last week to say he’d recently hit a parked truck and damaged its side mirror while en route to the movie set. Johnson said truck owner Audie Bridges recognized him and refused to accept money for the damage. He thanked the Wakefield resident for “being so cool about the whole thing” before posing for a picture with him beside the damaged truck. The Boston Globe reported Bridges confirmed Monday that the incident happened about a month ago, and he was able to fix the damaged mirror himself. Johnson is in Massachusetts filming Central Intelligence, an action comedy also starring Kevin Hart.

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