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...Chief (Vince Vaughn as Abe Lincoln? Denzel Washington as George Washington?), director Garry Marshall found an ensemble romantic-comedy script, similar to the 2003 Brit film Love, Actually, and assembled an A-list crowd of actors: Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah, Julia Roberts and her niece Emma, two Jessicas (Alba and Garner), two baby Taylors (Lautner and Swift) and prime dudes named Ashton, Bradley and Topher, with 75-year-old Shirley MacLaine added for the senior set. (Marshall is also 75; kitsch knows no age barriers...
...widely known and respected, and it attracts some of cinema's best and brightest every year - as well as the fans, shills and paparazzi who feast on them. At this year's festival, which lasts through Jan. 31, the feature films star actors like Ben Affleck, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba and Dakota Fanning. Yet for every Tilda Swinton, there is a Jon Gosselin to show up and pose for pictures or grab free "swag bags" at lounges set up by retailers who hope to get their clothes, watches and products onto celebs' much-photographed bodies...
...Panelist Alba E. Alvarez reinforced this point as she spoke about her life experiences, including being the only woman out of the 110 real estate agents at the company where she worked...
...1980s, during their first presidencies, when Arias helped broker peace settlements to end Central American civil wars like the one Ortega and his Sandinista Revolution were fighting against U.S.-backed contra rebels. Ortega made it clear soon after the Honduran coup that he felt it was the role of ALBA, not of the more conservative Arias, to broker a deal there. Ortega was also apparently miffed that the Honduran military decided to banish Zelaya to Costa Rica and immediately invited him to Nicaragua, where the Sandinista leader played a key role in getting Latin American countries to unanimously condemn...
Although Sabatini believes the Micheletti government has blundered by not accepting the San José Accord - "They could have been done with him by now instead of turning him into a political martyr," he says - he feels ALBA's "bad-faith grandstanding" is hurting the pact's chances even more. But Reina and other ALBA representatives insist the onus is on Micheletti and the coup leaders, who "are always using President Chávez and ALBA as scapegoats for their illegal actions." Either way, the game Zelaya and his foes are playing now at the Brazilian embassy promises...