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Standing at over 6 feet tall, Prince Harry is usually a head above the rest. But when he stood next to towering basketball pro Carmelo Anthony Wednesday, he had to settle for second fiddle. At St. James's Palace in London, Harry and Knicks player Anthony welcomed a new generation of newly qualified sports coaches under a program set up by the charity headed by Harry and his brother, Prince William, and sister-in-law Kate. It was the culmination of the Royal Foundation's Coach Core, an initiative that helps at-risk and disadvantaged youths stake out careers as professional sports coaches and mentors. Anthony,...

We’ve already had one music-in-New-York drama this year with Begin Again, but here comes Kate Barker-Froyland’s Song One, which will give Anne Hathaway a chance to once again visit romantic territory while she’s serenaded by Johnny Flynn’s folk singer.Hathaway stars as Franny, an archaeologist working in Morocco who is summoned home when her musician brother Henry falls into a coma following an accident. Confronting the estrangement from her family, she sets out to explore her sibling’s life and music using his notebook. As she seeks out the places, sounds and musicians he loved, she meets James Forrester (Flynn), a troubadour that is Henry’s musical idol. And, as if you couldn’t guess, a love connection develops between Henry and Franny, despite her family trauma and his own shy nature. Set against a Brooklyn backdrop, Song One features original music composed by Jenny Lewis...

In Song One, Anne Hathaway plays Franny, an academic whose research in North Africa is cut short by an emergency phone call from home: her younger brother Henry has been hit by a car and is in a coma. Henry was an aspiring Brooklyn musician, a career development that had soured the siblings' relationship. But as she and her mother (Mary Steenburgen) reconnect around his hospital bed, she also gains a greater appreciation for her brother's commitment to music from the songs he left behind. She visits the clubs he frequented, and when the opportunity presents itself, she approaches her brother's favorite singer,...