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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he could not "close the door" to the possibility that he might skip part of the Beijing Olympics. Hollywood figures Steven Spielberg, Richard Gere and Mia Farrow have invoked the idea of a boycott for reasons ranging from Tibet to Darfur. Meanwhile, protesters are disrupting the winding path of the Olympic torch from Greece to the opening ceremonies...
...Gere's statement, many other activists had called for a Games boycott, for myriad reasons. Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders argued that a boycott should be considered given China's jailing of journalists. Darfur advocates Steven Spielberg, who recently withdrew as an artistic adviser to the Games, and Mia Farrow have called for a boycott because of China's Sudan links. "I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual [with the Olympics]," Spielberg said in February. Burmese activists have echoed the Darfur protesters, trying to shame Beijing for its close ties to Rangoon. Even...
...left in charge. But Jerry has had a little accident at a local power station: his body has been magnetized, and when he touches the video boxes he instantly erases all the tapes, rendering them useless. The demand by a stern lady of the neighborhood, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow, a living connection to the Zelig trope), to watch Ghostbusters sends the guys scurrying to make their own 20-min. version of the old Bill Murray comedy, and finish it by nightfall...
...ashram in 1968, but in the end, Transcendental Meditation founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may have regretted the association. The maharishi brought TM--the practice of exploring consciousness through meditation and chanting--to the U.S. in 1959, and with the cachet of star followers like the Rolling Stones and Mia Farrow, it became a multimillion-dollar global business. But the gray-haired guru was said to have become uncomfortable with its drug-using, counterculture fan base. After the Fab Four's celebrated visit, the band and its guru famously split. The maharishi was believed...
Many of the interviews in the film, with neighbors and friends like Mia Farrow, paint a picture of Polanski at his peak, when he was one of Hollywood's hottest directors, fresh off the critical and commercial hit Rosemary's Baby and married to the beautiful actress Sharon Tate. "At a certain point in his life, Roman Polanski had a lot of hope," says Zenovich. "He was living this great life. He was so talented and everyone wanted to work with him. He had survived the Holocaust, soared out of Poland on sheer personality. I wanted to put his life...