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The Volturi are invading the red carpet.

The vampire clan starring in the highly anticipated second installment of the Twilight series are expected to be greeted by a crowd of fans at the Rome Film Festival, where scenes from The Twilight Saga: New Moon are being screened ahead of the official release next month.

Actors Cameron Bright, Charlie Bewley and Jamie Campbell Bower will be followed on the carpet by a team of flag weavers from Volterra, the Tuscan village the Volturi call home.

Scenes from the modern-day love story between a sensitive schoolgirl and a century-old, immortal vampire, this time with werewolves on the prowl, are screening in Rome on Thursday.

The movie, popular with teen and older audiences alike, opens Nov. 20.

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Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession yesterday and expects to receive a one-year jail sentence.

He previously had pleaded not guilty to illegal gun possession charges that carried at least 3½ years in prison upon conviction.

Police said a gun was found on his tour bus in Manhattan in 2007.

The rapper, born Dwayne Carter, won last year's best rap solo performance Grammy for A Milli. His albums include Tha Carter, Tha Carter II and Tha Carter III.

His trial had been due to start Jan. 20.

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Celebrity Birthdays:

* Movie director Philip Kaufman is 73.

* Soccer great Pele is 69.

* Movie director Ang Lee is 55.

* Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 53.

* Community activist Martin Luther King III is 52.

* Movie director Sam Raimi is 50.

* Parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic is 50.

* Rock musician Robert Trujillo (Metallica) is 45.

* Country singer-musician Junior Bryant is 41.

* CNN medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta is 40.

* Country singer Jimmy Wayne is 37.

* Actor Ryan Reynolds is 33.

* Actress Masiela Lusha is 24.

* Actress Briana Evigan is 23.

* Actress Jessica Stroup is 23.