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...best-selling novel The Kite Runner. The family of Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, whose character is raped, fear the film will expose them to reprisals. In Afghan tribal society, sexual violation - even its portrayal in a fictional movie - can lead to dishonor, ostracism, or worse. Mahmidzada's father told the BBC that members of his tribe "may cut my throat, they may kill me, they may torture me." The filmmakers, he says, didn't mention the rape scene would be filmed. Producers at Paramount deny such a promise was made. The offending scene was tastefully portrayed, they say, and crucial...
Credit Colin Firth and his toned torso emerging from a fountain in the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” for ushering in an era of Jane Austen fervor. Nearly 10 years after most women with a pulse realized Mark Darcy is the most eligible bachelor in fictional history comes “The Jane Austen Book Club,” a film adaptation of the popular novel by Karen Joy Fowler. The premise of “Book Club” is refreshingly intelligent. It is a step above standard romantic dramedy fare that...
Sources: AP; AFP; USA Today; BBC; Concord (N.H.) Monitor; Times of London
...Sunday's The People over a picture of Kate McCann, Madeleine's mother. And Chris Roycroft-Davis, a media consultant and Express commentator, thinks that's how it should be. "The media have been very, very sympathetic toward the McCanns, quite rightly so," he said on a Sunday morning BBC Radio 2 program...
...Treasury last week. And though it's not yet clear how big the Bank of England's lifeline is, the central bank's cash means savers' own deposits are safe. "We are a well capitalized, solvent and viable business," Northern Rock CEO Adam Applegarth told the BBC early Monday...