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...German operation to arrest Osman Petmezci and Astrid Eyzaguirre in September seemed to go like clockwork. Acting on a tip from America's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), police nabbed the pair on suspicion of plotting to bomb a U.S. military base near Heidelberg. After searching the couple's apartment, investigators found five rudimentary pipe bombs, raw material for 18 kilos of explosive powder, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Petmezci and Eyzaguirre are now in custody, awaiting trial. Another victory for German law enforcement? Not quite. CID's Aug. 29 warning wasn't the first call from...
...Janet Fitch novel (and Oprah book) that inspired this perfect-child-in-a-rotten-world drama is a cozy read. Teenage foster child Astrid (Alison Lohman) has monumentally bad luck with mother figures (Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger) but endures by taking on the attitudes of the women who disappoint her. Somehow the viewer endures too, because Lohman's pensive loveliness carries the film...
...fine with strip-club stripping," says Katherine Valentine, the affable redhead who plays the stern Teutonic M.C. Miss Astrid in Manhattan's Va Va Voom Room burlesque show. "But stripping is a man giving money to a woman in exchange for a sexual feeling. The burlesque thing has very little to do with that." Michelle Carr, who founded Los Angeles' Velvet Hammer in 1995, puts it another way: "Go to a strip club, and everyone out of the gate looks exactly the same. What we get is a chance to express ourselves creatively...
...DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, self-effacing, globally revered children's author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that Pippi, whose name was coined by her daughter, struck a chord in part because she "has power...but never misuses...
...role in Germany's first movie after the war, Die M?rder Sind Unter Uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), the versatile blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine as a bedtime story for her seven-year-old daughter. DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, American WWII veteran...