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...very happy working, and this came out of left field," she said backstage. "I didn't aspire to this." Bullock had even said no to The Blind Side part, along with Julia Roberts, before she eventually changed her mind. But even after coming on board, she still struggled with the role, calling her first week on set the worst she had ever had. But somehow the role crystallized, and the family-friendly movie proved a major force at the 2009 box office. It was also the first female-led film to hit the $200 million mark...
...novel Middlemarch. "It is a still quivering part of himself." As an executive summary of A Life Apart - the complex, occasionally overwrought but ultimately satisfying fiction debut of TIME contributor Neel Mukherjee - that pretty much fits the bill. The book was first published as Past Continuous in India, where, along with Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, it was joint winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award, the country's most prominent prize for English-language writing. The newly entitled edition is slightly revised and tighter, with one chapter deleted and some structural changes near its conclusion...
...fill with the same pungent odor that once stank up your college roommate's underwear drawer. But the visual cues are at odds with the Steppenwolf playing on the sound system: a uniformed security guard leans by the door, while grass is displayed in neatly labeled jars under glass. Along one wall is a large, horizontal one-way window, behind which, one assumes, are eyes sharper and brighter than those of the clerks and customers...
...Saudi prince through a second-story window, busted open a safe with a screwdriver and stole some 200 pounds of jewelry. The former Saudi chargé d'affaires in Bangkok told the Washington Post that the gardener stuffed "rubies the size of chicken eggs" in his vacuum-cleaner bag, along with a huge, nearly flawless blue diamond, which at 50 carats would be one of the largest blue diamonds in the world...
...Charging five current or former police officers for the murder of the Saudi businessman who disappeared in 1990 - along with the subsequent trial, slated for the end of March - represents the best chance in years to put an end to the long-standing row. All five officers, however, deny the charges and have vowed to fight them in court. The highest ranking of the bunch, Somkid Boonthanom, has blamed politics for the arrest, telling Bangkok's the Nation that he witnessed "outside factors intimidating and pressuring" the prosecutors...