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...What They're Watching in Sweden: Even more shocking than the content of Dirty Diaries--a collection of 12 short pornographic films that premiered in Stockholm on Sept. 3--is the source of the project's funding: Swedish taxpayers. Director Mia Engberg received $70,000 from the Swedish Film Institute to depict "sexuality through a female's perspective"--a revelation that rankled conservative pols and filmgoers alike...
...asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face.' DIRK SILZ, creative director for Germany's new "AIDS Is a Mass Murderer" campaign, explaining the choice of Adolf Hitler as the virus's human embodiment...
...read about it." Archerd, who died Sept. 8 at 87, spent more than half a century chronicling the industry's élite for Daily Variety. He interviewed Humphrey Bogart on his deathbed, Marilyn Monroe (below, with Archerd) in her dressing room, Charlie Chaplin in the director's chair and nearly every other star in Tinseltown. For nearly 50 years, he also served as the official greeter at the Academy Awards--a role that helped earn him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
Though Archerd never thought of himself as "part of the scene," he counted among his friends screen legends like Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier. "I told him at an Oscar ceremony he was the most famous person here," says director Steven Spielberg. "He blushed." When longtime bachelor Warren Beatty finally tied the knot in 1992, Archerd got the exclusive in a call from the newlywed himself. His column was short on sensationalism, but in 1985 Archerd broke what he later called "the biggest show-business story ever"--the news that actor Rock Hudson was dying of AIDS. The delicately worded...
...duplicity and fecklessness. Even though he came to power on the back of a U.S.-led invasion, Karzai has portrayed himself as the one man willing to criticize coalition forces. "Karzai wants his legacy to be an Afghan leader who stood up against the foreigners," says Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies...