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...Kurds, who regard them as essential to protecting self-rule. Seven hours of talks inside the Governing Council chamber Friday night failed to produce any accord. The parties agreed to a two-day hiatus while the Shi'ites consulted Ayatullah Sistani and Bremer labored to keep the embarrassing blowup from turning into a permanent breakdown...
...more than 500 films, from James Bond to Bridget Jones. There are classics such as The Long Good Friday and Withnail and I, but Reeves excels at tracking down obscure film locations that haven't been noted before?including those in seminal '60s movies like The Knack and Blowup. While many fans of the latter still aren't sure what the film is about, at least now they can learn the locale of the park where David Hemmings witnesses a murder. Several London guidebooks incorrectly identify it as Hampstead Heath or Holland Park, but Reeves reveals it as the little...
...more than 500 films, from James Bond to Bridget Jones. There are classics such as The Long Good Friday and Withnail and I, but Reeves excels at tracking down obscure film locations that haven't been noted before - including those in seminal '60s movies like The Knack and Blowup. While many fans of the latter still aren't sure what the film is about, at least now they can learn which park David Hemmings is in when he witnesses a murder. Several London guidebooks incorrectly identify it as Hampstead Heath or Holland Park, but Reeves reveals it as the little...
DIED. DAVID HEMMINGS, 62, swinging London's golden boy in the 1966 film Blowup; of a heart attack; while filming in Romania. As a fashion photographer who uncovers a murder by blowing up his photos, he played sexy scenes with Vanessa Redgrave and helped make Michelangelo Antonioni's film a breakthrough art-house hit. He later became a director of such movies as Just a Gigolo (featuring Marlene Dietrich's last performance) and a reliable character actor in such films as Gladiator and Gangs of New York...
...DIED. DAVID HEMMINGS, 62, British actor best remembered for playing a swinging photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classic Blowup; while filming a movie in Romania. In the 1980s, Hemmings turned to directing TV shows before he returned to movie acting. One of his recent film roles was in the Oscar-winning Gladiator...