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...fatale who radiates crazy in 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a darker, richer phase of her career began to bloom. With the 2006 drama Little Children, in which she plays a suburban mom whose fear that she is becoming a cliché propels her into an affair, and her two latest movies, her appetite for a certain kind of role - "angst-ridden women," she says, owning up to it immediately - has become unmistakable. "In her real life, she likes to keep things very simple," says Mendes. "But she's drawn to roles that seem like puzzles that...
...recent Saturday, 30 years to the day when Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in France, the Iranian government held a celebration in the massive shrine to Khomeini that is still under construction near the Tehran airport. The ceremony was a feel-good affair, with a marching band and schoolgirls in white chadors with pink butterfly wings. Speakers ranging from Khomeini's grandson to former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani celebrated the endurance of the world's only Islamic system of clerical and democratic rule. And each person who rose to the flower-strewn podium also used the occasion...
...screen? Nine Thirty, the restaurant at the Los Angeles-Westwood W hotel, will pair film screenings with a three-course dinner and wine every Sunday, from Feb. 15 through May 17. Dinner will be served al fresco on the hotel's patio, along with showings of An Affair to Remember (Feb. 15), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Feb. 22) and the Irish love story Once (March 1). The meal begins at 6 p.m., and showtime is at 6:30 p.m. Nine Thirty, 930 Hilgard Avenue...
...called A. Q. Khan affair is a closed chapter. - Pakistani government official statement on Khan's release, Associated Press...
...impact of what he did is still alive, we don't fully understand it," says Levi. The British government has already asked Pakistan to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency access to Khan. Previous such requests went nowhere. Pakistan's foreign ministry has said it now considers the Khan affair a closed chapter...