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SPLITSVILLE Nicolas Cage & Lisa Marie Presley...
Deviating from the familiar script in celebrity divorces, Lisa Marie Presley made no mention of a continued friendship or deep mutual respect when she announced that she and Nicolas Cage would be divorcing after three months of marriage. Instead, she displayed uncommon candor, saying, "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake." Presley and Cage ominously chose to marry on Aug. 10, the 25th anniversary of her father's death. Their divorce seems less surprising than the fact that the union didn't last as long...
...focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances." In the final cut, he excised the most indulgent scene of the movie--a long, violent fight between Aristotle and Charles Darwin--even though it meant having to take Nicolas Cage, who plays Kaufman, out to dinner. "Nicolas said it would never make the movie, and I couldn't even believe he was thinking this," Jonze says. He's even earnest about his absurdity...
...culture. Sitting on the lawn of Al Mustansiriyah University, geography student Hamid Lechali, 19, complained that America wants to control Iraq's huge oil reserves. But when the discussion moved away from politics, his 18-year-old girlfriend delightedly declared her favorite actors to be Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage. "I like John Travolta too," Lechali said. If any Iraqis have sympathy for bin Laden, it is not as automatic as it is on the streets of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, putative U.S. allies. Premed student Omar Alazwain, 21, had a quick answer when asked about the Sept. 11 attacks...
...carried out by one of their own Afghan allies. The Americans had fallen behind with the payroll, and al-Qaeda offered the turncoat quick cash, according to Taliban figures connected with the commander. He now resides, according to an aide to the governor of Kandahar, in a prison cage in the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...