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Awards: British director Ken Loach and Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas join British painter Bridget Riley, Italian sculptor Mario Merz and Italian conductor Claudio Abbado as this year’s recipients of the Praemium Imperiale Awards for outstanding achievement in the arts.

Tribute: The Venice Film Festival will honor Katharine Hepburn by showing a restored copy of 1955’s “Summertime,” organizers said Wednesday. The festival runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.

On it goes: Without explaining why, actress and model Rachel Hunter has withdrawn the divorce petition she filed against singer Rod Stewart last month. Stewart’s spokesman says the pair have not reconciled.

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Festival: Winners at the first Copenhagen International Film Festival, scheduled Aug. 13-20, will receive Golden Swan awards. They’re named in honor of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote about a swan in “The Ugly Duckling.”

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