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“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” is an exciting movie. So’s watching those watching it:

Guy Oseary, who manages U2 and Madonna, too, has six fingers. The sixth being a cell permanently grafted to his palm . . . Zac Posen kept fluffing some fluffy parading a new silk fluffjob . . . Salman Rushdie, who hasn’t missed an opening since his first wedding night, waited to hit a TV camera on the red carpet . . . Chef Bobby Flay: “I’m here because my restaurant’s across the way.”

Idris Elba plays Mandela. Tall, handsome, gorgeous teeth. Brit accent. Friendly. But no pistol to interview. “I never met Mandela.” How’d he get this role? “It’s been a journey.” Learning his mannerisms? “I studied his documentaries, books. I didn’t want an imitation.” About playing the age range? “It’s interpretive.”

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This week’s Sunday Spotlight gives the stage to U2 frontman Bono, who has been a leader in the global fight against AIDS for more than a decade. Helping “This Week” mark World AIDS Day, Bono sat down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos to talk about the dramatic turnaround in the battle against a virus that has killed more than 25 million worldwide since 1981.

Antiretroviral drugs, once unaffordable to the majority of people affected by HIV/AIDS, are now significantly more accessible.

“They used to cost a fortune, you know, ten grand a year. It’s down to 40 cents a day for one pill,” Bono said. “I remember being in Malawi, in Lilongwe, where there was four to a bed, queuing up to be diagnosed. But the diagnosis was a death sentence because there was no treatment. They had the medication. But they couldn’t give it to them. They couldn’t afford it.”

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