Hoffman, Burton and Whitaker top London Film Festival lineup
By The Associated Press
LONDON -- Dustin Hoffman, Tim Burton and Forest Whitaker are among the celluloid celebs lined up to attend the 50th London Film Festival.
The festival opens Oct. 18 with Kevin Macdonald's "The Last King of Scotland," which stars Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. It closes Nov. 2 with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's multistranded saga "Babel," starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal.
Galas include Emilio Estevez's "Bobby," about ordinary people caught up in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Linklater's junk-food expose "Fast Food Nation" and Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering," a complex story of life in modern London starring Jude Law.
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