LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles sheriff’s spokesman says ‘Terminator 2′ star Edward Furlong has been arrested on suspicion of violating a restraining order filed by his ex-girlfriend.

Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said that deputies responding to the scene Thursday in West Hollywood found Furlong hiding in a nearby property.

Jail records show he was released Saturday just after noon after being held on $100,000 bail.

In March, the 35-year-old actor had been sentenced to six months in jail for violating his probation in a 2010 case for violating a similar restraining order.

He has been the subject of such orders taken out by both his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend.

The actor was also charged in January of battery of an ex-girlfriend.

MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops.”

Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot de Forest for the catchy love song that is driven by her deep, Shakira-like voice.

Farid Mammadov of Azerbaijan finished second with the song “Hold Me, ahead of Ukraine’s Zlata Ognevich with “Gravity” in third place. Two semifinals this week whittled down the contestants from 40 to 26.

The televised extravaganza, with an audience of 125 million worldwide, is now in its 58th year. Once again without fail, it produced a mix of bubble-gum pop songs, somber ballads, bagpipes, accordions and bizarrely kitsch musical productions.

CANNES, France (AP) — Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for “Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film’s lavish Cannes party.

Stars of the “Hunger Games” sequel, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Clafin, arrived Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. “Catching Fire,” perhaps more than any other film not actually screening at Cannes, is seeking to use the festival’s global platform to promote the highly anticipated sequel.

Digital flame billboards have constantly burned by the Majestic Barriere hotel. The cast posed for photographers Saturday. And in the evening, Lionsgate held a lavish soiree beside the beach on the Croisette, complete with flowing liquid chocolate and parading models dressed in the film’s ornate costumes.

But a planned stunt at the party to promote the film was scuttled due to the poor weather that has plagued the first five days of the French Riviera festival. Lawrence made an enthusiastic appearance, but later fled, grimacing — like other guests — at the cold raindrops.

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” will be released in late November.

CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.

But the world’s leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo and Tahir Rahim, stars of director Asghar Farhadi‘s festival entry “The Past.”

Bejo shimmered on-screen in Cannes two years ago in “The Artist,” her director husband Michel Hazanavicius‘ vivacious silent homage to Hollywood’s Golden Age. It went on to win five Academy Awards, including best picture.

Rahim was the breakout star of the 2009 festival in Jacques Audiard’s poetic and brutal prison drama “A Prophet,” as a youth growing to manhood behind bars.

Cannes exposure helped boost both performers onto the international stage. While once most European actors could choose between stay at home and playing Hollywood villains, their paths suggest a more globalized movie world.

“It was quite a miracle for me,” Bejo said Saturday, as rain drummed remorselessly on a Cannes rooftop lounge. “Two years ago my life changed a little bit in Cannes.

“I don’t think Asghar Farhadi would have cast me in this movie if I hadn’t done ‘The Artist.’”

It’s hard to think of two movie styles further apart than the flamboyant artifice of “The Artist” and the anatomically detailed domestic drama of “The Past”

Bejo plays Marie, a harried Frenchwoman with two children, a new boyfriend with a young son, and an Iranian ex who has returned after four years to finalize their divorce. Rahim is her boyfriend Samir, a man with complex family ties of his own.

All the characters are trying to move on — but the past keeps dragging them back.

Bejo said she did a screen test for Farhadi, then didn’t hear from him for a month, so initially thought she hadn’t got the part.

“He said to me, I was looking into your face if I could see the doubt,” she said. “I guess because he saw me in movies where I was quite positive, quite sunny, quite glamorous. He needed to see if I could show another part of myself — and I guess he found it.”

For Bejo, as for Rahim, working with the Iran director was a dream come true. “The Past” is the first film Farhadi has shot outside his homeland, and the actors say they loved his working methods — two months of rehearsal to delve into character, break down barriers and forge bonds, followed by a four-month shoot.

With its Iranian director and largely French cast, it’s one of several border-hopping movies at Cannes this year. French director Arnaud Desplechin’s made-in-America “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian” stars France’s Mathieu Amalric and Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro. Another French filmmaker, Guillaume Canet, has a multinational cast including Clive Owen, Billy Crudup and Marion Cotillard in his New York crime drama “Blood Ties.”

It’s a trend Bejo is happy to embrace.

“In America you have Christoph Waltz, you have Marion Cotillard,” she said. “In France we have Italian and Spanish actors. … I think it’s great. We are used to strangers and foreign accents, and it’s great that we can see that in our movies now.”

Both she and Rahim have been busy since their Cannes breakthroughs. Bejo recently made French heist movie “The Last Diamond” and soon starts filming Hazanavicius’ next project, a war movie set in Chechnya.

Rahim’s projects include the English-language Roman-era adventure “The Eagle” and another movie appearing at Cannes this year, the nuclear power plant romance “Grand Central.”

Coming up, he plays a cop in the French movie “The Informant,” and is currently shooting a globe-spanning 1920s-set drama with Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, another pillar of culture-crossing cinema.

Despite the busy international career — and post-”Prophet” expressions of interest from the United States — Rahim says Hollywood remains a hard nut to crack for non-Anglophone actors.

“It’s not what you expect at first,” Rahim said. “You’d like to be with Michael Mann or (directors) like this, but you don’t have those parts that easily. Because first you have to speak English, you have to erase your accent.”

For now, he’s just happy to be back in Cannes, an experience that is easier the second time around.

“The difference is that now I’m not afraid when I come here,” he said. “I’m (saying) ‘OK I’m going to take every good vibe and keep it.’”

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson‘s mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:

THE CASE

Jackson’s mother wants a jury to determine that the promoter of Jackson’s planned comeback concerts didn’t properly investigate Dr. Conrad Murray, who a criminal jury convicted of involuntary manslaughter for Jackson’s June 2009 death. AEG‘s attorney says the case is about personal choice, namely Jackson’s decision to have Murray serve as his doctor and give him doses of a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid. Millions, possibly billions, of dollars are at stake.

WHAT HAPPENED

— Jurors heard from AEG Live’s first two witnesses, a pair of choreographers who worked on Jackson’s ill-fated “This Is It” shows. Stacy Walker told the panel she never saw any signs Jackson was impaired or ill during rehearsals. Her colleague Travis Payne, who rehearsed one-on-one with Jackson, acknowledged he couldn’t say how many times the pair actually rehearsed and said he was concerned the singer was under the influence of prescription medications in the weeks before his death.

— An AEG accounting executive testified about the budget for “This Is It,” which was planning on paying Murray up to $1.5 million for the first few months of the shows. The former cardiologist was never paid because Jackson died before signing his contract.

WHAT THE JURY SAW

— Payne shift from a composed, sometimes-smiling witness to one who fought back tears toward the end of his day-and-a-half of testimony. His devotion to Jackson was evident from his wardrobe, which included a black blazer with an emblem stitched onto each sleeve containing the letters “MJ” and golden wings.

— Lots of courthouse hallways and downtown Los Angeles. Friday’s session featured a four-hour lunch break due to witness availability issues. The trial’s third week featured only three days of live testimony and the jury was kept waiting or sent out of the room numerous times while attorneys argued legal issues.

QUOTABLE MOMENTS

— “Sometimes in rehearsal, Michael would appear just a little loopy,” Payne said of Jackson’s demeanor after visiting his longtime dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein, who is not a party to the case.

— “I just never in a million years thought he would leave us, or pass away,” choreographer Stacy Walker said of Jackson. Walker testified for AEG and said she never saw signs Jackson was under the influence of medications or was ill.

OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM

— A state attorney urged a court to reject an appeal by Jackson’s former doctor, Conrad Murray, stating there were no legal errors by a trial judge and the physician’s own attorneys failed to raise issues at the appropriate time. Murray has shown no remorse for playing “Russian roulette” with Jackson’s life.

WHAT’S NEXT

— A corporate attorney for AEG Live will testify, reflecting a shift in the trial focus away from Jackson and toward a central issue in the case — whether Murray was hired by the concert promoter.